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    Linux Playground on #OCI

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    • Linux Playground on #OCI

      Linux Playground on #OCI

      Spring is here and I will definitely spend more time outside on my bike and carrying my iPad in my backpack. So I was looking for an easy to setup environment to practice and train my shell scripting skills. And Oracle Always Free has a simple solution for that! I setup a small compute instance…

    • tmux Tutorial

      tmux Tutorial

      A very useful tool. Create new session: To dissconect from a session you are already in, I use Ctrl+b followed by pressing the d key. To re-attach to a session and continue where you left you need to figure out which session you want to attach to first. List the currently running sessions by using…

    • Linux Laptop Display Battery Status And Thermal Temperature – nixCraft

      Linux Laptop: Display Battery Status And Thermal Temperature From The Command Line Using upower, acpi and BAT0 file on any Linux distro. — Read on www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-laptop-battery-status-temperature/

    • Setup a VirtualBox based Database Lab Environment

      Setup a VirtualBox based Database Lab Environment

      Oracle provides a lot of useful Oracle VirtualBox Pre-built Appliances. In this blog post, I will describe the few extra steps I take after download in order to setup my lab environment on my work MacBook Pro.