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Just a quick tip for anyone who like me can’t be bothered typing sudo before every command that needs to be run as root. There are two three ways to turn any terminal into a root terminal:
sudo -s
and
sudo su
Edit: you can also use:
sudo bash
and there you have it.

I was searching on the internet for a way to install Steam, using wine (I don’t want to buy Cedega) and I found this guide. Handy post at fedorasolved.org. The site is mainly for Fedora distributions, but with a little modification it works on Ubuntu too. I’ve made it into a simple bash script you […]

When I first got my D900 I couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t let me view it as a drive when I connected it via the USB cable to my Ubuntu Linux laptop. Even when I changed the settings to allow me to use it as USB Mass storage. The answer, you can only transfer […]

With the new Bourne film coming out, The Bourne Ultimatum, Google are setting up a “Search For Bourne” game, much like they did with the Quest For The Da Vinci Code before they released the Da Vinci Code movie. I took part in the Da Vinci Code game and I found it genuinely challenging, exciting […]