YourSurrogateGod
August 10th, 2006, 08:56 PM
In 2003 and 2004, Jeff Schroeder served in the Iraq war, flying a tiny remote control spy plane and servicing Unix and Linux systems on the battlefield. Schroeder learned a lot of technology in the desert, and now that his time in the Army is over, he's busy working as a Web administrator for Comair Airlines, and writing utility scripts for Ubuntu, his favorite distribution. He believes Linux is going to "take over the world."
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In his spare time, Schroeder helps people install Linux on their computers. He's a big fan of Ubuntu. "I used Fedora before," he says, "and still use it for servers. But all of my desktops are running Ubuntu." To make Ubuntu even better, Schroeder's written several utility scripts, including a popular snippet he calls Faster Dapper. "I like things to be a little faster," he says. "I wrote the script for myself." Faster Dapper enables certain features of Ubuntu, such as preload, a daemon that analyzes file usage patterns and preloads the apps you use the most, and Faster Dapper disables lots of services that are enabled by default. "Bluetooth stuff," he says. "I don't use that on my laptop. It takes two seconds to load that daemon. If there are, say, 14 services loading that you don't need..."
Schroeder also created a script called Pretty Dapper that automatically sets up his preferred theme and desktop icons, and Secure Dapper, which results in "basic system hardening." He says that he plans soon to port Faster Dapper to Fedora and openSUSE. Examples of Schroeder's work are available at his Web site, digitalprognosis.com.
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/04/1823236
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In his spare time, Schroeder helps people install Linux on their computers. He's a big fan of Ubuntu. "I used Fedora before," he says, "and still use it for servers. But all of my desktops are running Ubuntu." To make Ubuntu even better, Schroeder's written several utility scripts, including a popular snippet he calls Faster Dapper. "I like things to be a little faster," he says. "I wrote the script for myself." Faster Dapper enables certain features of Ubuntu, such as preload, a daemon that analyzes file usage patterns and preloads the apps you use the most, and Faster Dapper disables lots of services that are enabled by default. "Bluetooth stuff," he says. "I don't use that on my laptop. It takes two seconds to load that daemon. If there are, say, 14 services loading that you don't need..."
Schroeder also created a script called Pretty Dapper that automatically sets up his preferred theme and desktop icons, and Secure Dapper, which results in "basic system hardening." He says that he plans soon to port Faster Dapper to Fedora and openSUSE. Examples of Schroeder's work are available at his Web site, digitalprognosis.com.
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/04/1823236