More of a reminder for myself than anything else .. since I've got a terrible memory! If you want to check disk space usage from the command line you can use the "du" command. But if you want to check a large number of directories for usage and sort them so that you can see where all the disk space is gone to use: du -sh * | sort -h That will output it in a more human … [Read more...] about Sorting Disk Usage By Size On Linux
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Ubuntu Grub Error
More for myself than anyone else .. While cleaning up the kernels and doing some updates on an Ubuntu machine you might get this error: you may need to re-run your boot loader[grub] Not 100% clear to me, but the solution is pretty easy. As root or using sudo run: update-grub Problem solved! … [Read more...] about Ubuntu Grub Error
Configuring Icecast Streaming Server On Debian
Conn and I did an experiment earlier this week with the technology.ie podcast. Instead of simply recording it and then publishing it we streamed the entire thing live using IceCast.We'd previously played around a bit with Google "hangouts', but running our own streaming server was fun and also gave us more autonomy. Media streaming always struck me as being incredibly … [Read more...] about Configuring Icecast Streaming Server On Debian
Force SSH over IPv4 or IPv6
I've got an IPv6 connection at home via Sixxs which works pretty well. Of course some of the time when I need to access certain machines from outside the office I'll run into issues ie. I can get in over IPv4, but not over IPv6. Other times the IPv6 connection from wherever I happen to be might not be as stable as the IPv4 one. So being able to force an SSH connection … [Read more...] about Force SSH over IPv4 or IPv6