I’ve long been a fan of ‘Evernote’ and last wrote about it on 19-11-2012 New phone and Evernote http://www.sharons.org.uk/2012/11/19/new-phone-and-evernote/. But today someone on IRC suggested that I have a look at Everpad - https://github.com/nvbn/everpad which is a linux ...

For a long time I’ve been using various formats of apt-cache search and stuff, and its such a crushing bore having to type in commands one after another, so I’ve written a script to do it all for me, whilst I’ve been listening to “Dad’s Army ...

This is the first post on a new hosts server, as I’ve moved this site from 1and1 to “cassidywebservices.co.uk” http://cassidywebservices.co.uk/. The reason for the move was that with every post that I made to this blog I was hitting memory problems, and there was ...

Protecting files from unwanted deletion is very important security on the tasklist of Unix Administrators. On Linux boxes you can use the chattr command.

Let’s give you some examples how chattr work under Linux -

To make a folder undeletable, run -

sudo chattr +i -R foldername

After that, you can ...

I’ve found that the ‘linux counter’ has changed from when I last wrote about it on the 20th June 2011 Linux Counter

It is now at http://linuxcounter.net/ where you can register yourself and download a script which silently works behind the scenes on your computer. It is ...

I’ve just discovered GreatLittleRadioPlayer which has quite probably got the longest programme name I’ve ever seen! But its a streaming radio player for ubuntu and fedora, but I’ve got the 32-bit version working on Debian testing, with only one easily fulfillable dependency too. It can be found ...

I’ve mentioned this before, when I was talking about ‘user.menu’ for fluxbox, back in Part 4 - usermenu but having just configured it to use the root menu I’ll explain further. It describes itself as ‘A media player written in python, GTK and utilising gstreamer. Similar to totem ...

Much has been written about free software, yet many people still think: What good is it for regular users? They buy or copy software, not caring if doing so is legal, and they have no need for source code they wouldn’t understand anyway. I heard that a couple times ...

This is one of those things that’s always difficult to explain. The bits of Linux that I miss on other platforms are not things that you immediately see as being of particular importance. The best example of this is the freedom - why would I care that I’m free ...

There are alternatives to the constant drip, drip, drip of money being used to upgrade Microsoft products to “the next best thing” and to the constant fear of viruses, malware, spam and hackers attempting to steal your identity. There is no need to pay good money for bloated Office suites ...