Archive for April 2008

64-bit OpenSuSE 10.3 and Thunderbird problem…. Solved!

I got a question from reader David B., who writes: I’m running 64-bit OpenSuSE 10.3 on an Opteron 185 system. On Saturday, Thunderbird was working just fine in my normal user login. I ran the OpenSuSE Updater which updated Thunderbird to v2.0.0.12, but didn’t try launching it before shutting the system down. Booting up on [...]

Why does my OES2 (Linux) cluster node hang when stopping NCS?

Every once in a while I read something out on the ‘Net that that is so important, and not well-known, that I think I really need to pass it along to anyone who might be reading my blog as well… This is one of those things. The other day, I was troubleshooting my own Linux-based [...]

How do I find files on Linux by command line?

People ask me this all the time in varying degrees. They have installed Linux, and maybe it’s command-line only, or maybe they’ve shelled in to their pretty GUI server for the first time, and are looking for a file. How to find it without Konqueror or Nautilus (forgoing the X redirection and all that)…? There [...]