Computer

To to find your IP :
alt-f2, lxterminal
ifconfig

SSH in from another machine, and follow along from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1492441/comments/7

Quick note on these PowerLine devices.

They don't need any tools to manage them, as they have a sufficient web interface.

BUT - these devices are terrible network citizens.

I got a Dell laptop a few years ago, and while scouting around for it's replacement I noticed the Ubuntu Linux folks are still proud to say their stuff not only runs on Dell kit still, but that it's available to purchase and have supported direct from Dell:

"purchase Ubuntu on Dell"
http://www.ubuntu.com/dell

Rather annoyingly VMWare's 'vmware-mount' command mounts the image read-only, so if, for instance, you need to remove the device drivers that make [node:1580, title="VirtualBox choke"], you can't.

This is easy enough to get around, however:

Today I went to start Windows as guest in my Ubuntu install of VMWare and, boom, VMWare has broken itself during one of the prior kernel updates (because it doesn't use DKMS or release patches quickly enough).
There had recently been a good thread on this on the Manchester Linux User Group's mailing list, so I decided to give migrating to something that more sensibly works a go.

You can now play lemmings online, in JavaScript (i.e. without a browser plugin).
In other words, the virtual language running in the cross platform virtual language inside your web browser, running on top of your GUI, on top of your operating system, is as powerful as one whole Amiga.

I don't normaly do the whole 'meme of the week' thing, but I thought the one on Stuff That Happens was interesting.

falken@wopr:~$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
63 ls
47 exit
38 cat
32 sudo
30 cd
20 svn
18 ssh
17 find
16 rm
16 bg
falken@wopr:~$

The server that runs our web sites and house intranet is only a little better. Can you tell I just log in to do stuff most of the time ?