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Both OSX and Ubuntu are *NIX systems. Normally (in my limited experience) if a program works on one *NIX system, then it can be made to work on ubuntu.

Is Microsoft making it difficult on purpose?

lol, I like the cron command.

Turn the server on then it will connect after midnight :D

I can see why most servers have an Ethernet connection, but there must be a way of doing it by wifi...
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Thanks Habitual,

It still isn't working...

here's the script
/home/john/WifiSetup/ConnectWifi.sh


#!/bin/bash
ifconfig ra0 up

Hi, I am running ubuntu 11.10 server, on a home WPA PSK wifi network.

To connect to the wifi network I type these commands.



sudo ifconfig ra0 up
sudo wpa_passphrase NetworkName "Password"...

Thanks for the very quick reply.

This works.



sudo ifconfig ra0 up
sudo wpa_passphrase NetworkName "Password" > ~/WifiSetup/wpa_supplicant.conf
sudo wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i ra0 -c...

How do I connect to the network using the command line?

I have a server that I want to connect to my home wifi network.

Wifi drivers are installed, ra0 is up, and the lights on the card are...

Hi,

Does anyone know how to use waitr and ruby to download a web page and save it as html.

I used to use wget, but last week the page was re-designed to be full of javascript, so wget isn't...

Thank you, that makes a lot of sense.

Try right clicking your panel (Taskbar), then adding CPU frequency scaling monitor.

This is one of those problems where I don't know a piece of assumed knowledge, so I am not understanding the How To guides.

I have set up ssh on one of my computers at home. I can log into it from...

Thank you.

You are a lifesaver.

To help others find your post, my card was a Edimax EW-7711ln PCI card.

lol

I was over thinking it.

Hi

I had a student, and she has done some work on her account on my lab computer, but has left the country and is un-contactable.

I have full administrator privileges for this machine, and it...

Thanks, that helped a lot. But it doesn't entirely solve my problem

My ulimit -m limit is already at 1.5 GB per program, which is fine as I have 4GB of RAM.

However CLC instantly fills up the...

I have a program with a memory leak.

Is there a way of limiting the amount of memory available to the program or dropping it's "memory priority" so that when the offending program demands all of...

If it helps, my terminal runs BASH and the remote machine uses TCSH

I am running a program on a "supercomputer" in my department via ssh.

The program is currently giving a progress output to my terminal.

I want to close my terminal, and log off, without...

Even though you consider her a beginner computer user, she will have all kinds of things that she does her way that she doesn't want to change.

My girlfriend's mother hated linux (mint), even...

Perfect. Thankyou

How do I export the last 10-15 commands that I typed into the command line?

I want to keep a record of what I have done in my lab book.

lol, I'm an experimental scientist and it didn't occur to me to just try...

perl -e 'print("ls > " ,"A" x 255, "\n" );' | sh

255 is the longest file-name that I can make before I get an error.

Hi

In the big bad world of windows vista I lost some files because after moving them their file names were over 255 characters. (NTFS file system)

Ext4 has a Max file name size of 256 bytes,...

Could your corrupted files be due to permissions problems, or diferences in the maximum file name length?

I have run into both of these, but NTFS is still the best one to use.

Thank you endotherm and DaithiF.

that makes perfect sense, you've solved my problem. Now I will change the timer to give me more than 10 seconds of web browsing.

Hi

I want to limit my non-work internet browsing so I have written a command that when pasted into a terminal will open a browser, wait 10 sec then kill the browser

This works perfectly if...