Archive for May, 2008

remove strange file names

I once was asked in a job interview, how I would remove a file if this one started with a “-”

open your terminal

touch -myPictures

then try rm -myPictures and see what happens

so how would you do it?

there are two ways to do it (i am sure there are mores, but hey why bother?)

1) rm ./-myPictures

2) rm — -myPictures

I have decided to write a small how-to on how I was able to install and configure my ASUS F5N laptop.

To read more about Arch Linux, go there http://archlinux.org

(this part assumes you are able to download the iso file, burn it, boot from it, proceed to install)

** note that I have only installed the base package as I wanted to have a very minimal system, devel and support package were not installed)

X-Window

pacman -Sy xorg nvidia

type nvidia-xconfig (I did not want to bother editing the X86.. conf file, so i left that out the nvidia script)

Desktop Environment

I decided to go with Gnome…

pacman -S gnome gnome-extra

—— System Configuration ——

At this point we need to add some daemons Read the rest of this entry »