MadBuntu

Hi all, I’m still alive and will have some new content up on this site soon, but I am getting married this week and am so insanely busy that I am not going to be very productive.

So I will be out for this week and probably next.  I will still be twittering and should be doing that pretty frequently these couple weeks in my personal life. You can get updates on that here

Till then, take care all!

Baobab is a handy little utility that I have really come to like.  Baobab provides an easy to visualize layout of the used space on your hard disk.  Although this doesn’t sound that useful, I find myself using it all the time to see where I have recoverable disk space.

If your using Gnome, Baobab is listed as Disk Usage Analyzer under Applications->Accessories.  My KDE 4.1 installation did not have it on the menu, but it can be added via Kmenuedit or run from the command line with the command:

sean@redstar:~$ /usr/bin/baobab &

Baobab is a Gnome application, so if you run it under a different window manager you will need to to have the gnome libraries installed.

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ps shows running processes on your system. It has many options to show different information, but I usually find running ps -aef the most useful. Bonus CLI-fu: pipe it to grep and search the process list

I setup KDE 4 this week and really enjoy it.  My biggest gripe was that the numlock key was off by default.  I searched and search, but could find no settings to turn it on.  Apparently, there have been some changes between KDE3 and KDE4 and the instructions for KDE3 will not work.  This is what I ended up doing and it seems to work.

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