Quoting TheOneKEA at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/keeping-a-process-running-after-disconnect-150235/: nohup is what you want – it’s a wrapper that blocks the SIGHUP signal sent to all applications connected to a terminal when that terminal is closed by the shell. Just ssh into the box and start the command using this syntax: [user@remoteboxen user]$ nohup /path/to/command arguments & The man page [...]
Any time there is a kernel update, you would do well to rebuild the VirtualBox kernel module to ensure compatibility with your new kernel version. This can be done by executing the following command from the terminal: sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
First, you can find some good free font downloads at http://www.sostars.com. I downloaded a stencil font called “Ver Army.” I unzipped the file, and found a .ttf font file. I learned how it install it from this page. Here’s a summary: To install Microsoft Windows fonts: sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer To install Red Hat Liberation [...]
This is the shell script I wrote to help me perform the analysis I did for Quest 5. 1. Perform a site:yoursite.edu search in Google, displaying 100 results per page. 2. Save each page (Google will only give you 10 at most) into a folder named yoursite.edu 3. Download the shell script to the directory [...]
Except this one really made me laugh quite loudly. I was trying to create a new Google account so there would be a webmaster email address for the BYU PSST research group’s website. As I went about happily filling out information for this new account, I suddenly hit a wall when Google wanted me to [...]
While the social climate for a policy of openness at BYU is currently in its nascent and humble stages, it is quickly gaining momentum. Despite the lack of an official university-wide “open” policy at BYU, a number of open activities are already well under way. To date, a growing number of OERs and OER-like resources [...]
