In order to format a USB device under Unix you need to follow these simple steps under the root user account.
Find out the name of the device file representing the USB hardware device:
If the system is busy I clean out the dmesg to make it easie… more »
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Vi is one of the most powerful text editors, but it really separates the men from the boys. GUI’s are highly over rated - all you want is a big black page. Apart from some clear context colouring what more do you need to write code?
One of… more »
Finding the differences between files under DOS is a pain, because DOS does not provide any tools to help manipulate files or streams of files.
When I have source trees I need to compare I use the unix power tool diff. Sometimes (because of various ed… more »
I had a problem with Funambol's administration tool where the same version worked at home, but not at work. When I tried to login at work it said "Host not found or not reachable, please verify connection parameter". I verified the host was found, the ro… more »
The directory lister under UNIX is called 'ls'. In the deep and distant past this was a very black and white affair. GNU has changed all that by introducing an environment variable called LS_COLORS which allows you to set the colours of files based on ex… more »