Michael Anthony Heap

I use the terminal to navigate and perform actions as much as I can, as I find I can work much more quickly. However, I’m always learning new shortcuts that make my life much easier. This post assumes you’re running your bash prompt in emacs mode. If you’re not sure, then it’s probably in emacs…

Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope is set for release tomorrow, but I’ve been running the RC for about a week now. So far, so good! I was surprised that my wireless internet was working without me having to do anything this release. I’ve resorted to everything from using ndiswrapper to compiling madwifi from source previously, but…

When I first got my EEE901, the first thing I did was to get rid of Xandros, the Toys-R-Us like OS and install a proper distro. After a bit of googling, I came across eeebuntu. At that point, it was a working distro, but there was still a lot of work to be done to…

Carrying on with the theme of “Michael likes cows”, today I have another little easter egg to share. $ sudo apt-get install cowsay $ cowsay "Your Message Goes Here" And that’s about all it does, so here’s one I made earlier: $ cowsay “Exams Are Over ” ___________________ < Exams Are Over > ——————- \…