John's Linux Blog

While working on some go code recently, I hit a problem which was a bit perplexing: # command-line-arguments /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lp...

I was going to write a blog about how the synaptics trackpad driver on RHEL6 is a bit old and buggy and that I had successfuly back-ported t...

I recently had a problem with a PHP command line script I use to sanity check some of our systems. One particular check compares user acco...

You may have seen it hundreds of times but few know what it means. Escape character is '^]'. It is actually quite obvious is you...

For a while I have been running XBMC 13.0 on CentOS-6. I turns out that there is a known issue in that version which prevents it from playin...

Often I come across a new command which I think Wow! I always wanted to know how to do that. I decided that I will blog about them and tha...

Now that I have a laptop I can use on the train I can surf the internet using my Pocket WIFI. This is actually a Vodafone Hauwai E585 with a...