Unix/Linux

I’ve been using Apache httpd on and off on my PowerBook for various purposes including school assignments. The httpd version that comes with the PowerBook by default is 1.3.33 and I need to use the version 2.*. So, I installed the Apache 2 via Fink. After having successfully installed Apache 2, we need to make some changes to the config file (usually, it is the httpd.conf file.) Guess what? I totally forgot where that file resides. The only thing I could remember is that we can find that information out very easily by giving the -v option to the httpd. So, I tried it and this is what I got: ...

VMware is a piece of art of software which allows you to run guest operating stystems (OS) on top of the main OS you’re using. For example in my case, I run SuSE 10.0 on Windows XP via VMware. Anyway, despite having the name as cool as it sounds, installing the VMware on my machine is a pain in the rear. This could explain why I so stated as above. The installation of VMware always gives the blue-screen-of-death on the Windows XP SP2 on the final step. Initially, I thought that some services running on my machine may cause the problem, so I disabled most of them. In addition, I also shutdown Zone Alarm, and all the running programs. Nothing helped at all. I remember, the last time I wanted to run VMware so bad, that I decided to reinstall the Windows XP. ...

I’m pretty bored today, and I wanna take a break from learning Python. So, I decided to compile an open source game, LBreakOut (L is for Linux), for my PowerBook. In order to compile this game, you need obviously the source code of the game where you can get it from here. Additionally, you need the SDL library, where you can get it from http://www.libsdl.org. Here is the screen-shot of game running on my PowerBook: ...

Normally, I would bunzip the file first, then untar it next. But I found something after googling for a shortcut: it can all be done with just one tar command. $ tar -xjvf example.tar.bz2 Notice that, we use j flag to decompress bzip2 file and z flag for gzip file. 🙂

bunzip -v exampleFile.bz2 or bzip2 -dv exampleFile.bz2 bzip2 -h man bzip2 bzip2 homepage