If you have Windows 10 and miss sometimes to have a linux distro locally, you can install the Windows Subsystem for Linux. First start a CMD shell (start-run, type: CMD) Then: powershell Then you type: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux Restart the computer. Then go to Microsoft Store and choose your option. I chose Ubuntu 18.04 […]
If you have a lot of files (several TB) on a Linux server, and you want to synchronize them daily to a local USB disc, you can use Cygwin rsync for the job. First you need to install Cygwin on your Windows computer: https://www.cygwin.com/ Then start up a CMD on your windows computer, and type: rsync […]
We have a collaborating project between Norway, Moldova, Armenia and Belarus in Oral Pathology. In order to view slides online we installed a software called Cytomine. This software, or multiple combined software/applications, is developed in Belgium by a cooperating team. All about Cytomine can be read here: https://cytomine.coop/ This is an open source software. It is […]
On Redhat 5 and 6 we could empty the ldap cache with this command: nscd -i group and nscd -i netgroup But in Redhat 7 this doesn’t work. Instead one have to run this command: sss_cache -E here is more about sss_cache from Redhat: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/deployment_guide/sssd-cache
Sometime yum update just breaks everything. We experienced this, and had to go backup to previous versions. In RHEL6 and RHEL7 you can run this command: yum history list all which will give you a list of transactions ID’s. Now you just need to figure out how far you want to go back in the […]
I have managed to create my first server in an openstack enviroment here at university of Bergen. I can see my instance in the Dashboard: Next thing was to add a volume: Project -> Compute -> Volumes: Create Volume After creating it, I had to go to “Manage Attachments”, and in Manage Volumen Attachments, I […]
If you have a file with several lines that contains email addresses that you like to extract, you can do that with Linux grep command: File “emails.txt”: somestreng anotherstring 342345 somename.lastname@domain.com where somename.lastname@domain.com is the string you like to extract: you can do this with: grep -EiEio ‘\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b’ emails.txt Result: somename.lastname@domain.com
I have Windows 7 on my computer, but needed to run a git gui tool for our project. Searching on Google I found several, but they all were software for Linux. We have plenty of Linux Redhat servers, but no one running X window. I installed then a Xming X server (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/) on my Windows […]
I have Linux Mint installed on my computer, and made several movies with Kdenlive. Works quite well. Here is a video about Kdenlive… And this is also interesting: http://on.aol.com/video/how-to-overlay-text-in-kdenlive-161786395
Sometimes you have to send an email with a different “From:” address. This can be easily done in LINUX. Please see the video below, and read the text below the video for further explanations. If you have questions, please, just add your comment, I will be happy to answer 🙂 Was the video helpful? Here […]
I had to find a specific Microsoft Spreadsheet among thousands of files on a mapped network drive O: on a Windows 7 Computer. The problem was that searching and indexing was only performed on local disk like C: and D: so I could only search for keyword in local Excel files. It is not optimal, […]
We wrote an improved postgresql dump bash script for Postgresql version 9.1. This one will save each dump file with the name: database_name_DAYNAME.sql.bz2 In this way, we would only have 7 backups at any time, because each file will be overwritten after seven days. Since our backup system (TSM) saves 7 versions of each file, […]