How to Stop Emacs from Opening a New Daemon

I finally got around to upgrading to the the newest stable release of Emacs. There were a few things I wanted to be able to do and rather than use outdated methods I decided it was time to upgrade to Emacs 23. I ran into a few hitches along the way but after getting them [...]

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Creating a New User

Creating a user in Linux is a simple task. Well, kinda. You can quickly create a user without specifying much of it’s characteristics, or you can get much more in depth with security, default shells and other customizations. I recommend taking the time to learn beyond the basics or you may find yourself making a [...]

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Linux Disk Usage

Every now and then one of my servers will stop working because the hard drive or one of its partitions has filled up.  In almost every case it has simply been choking on a log file that grew to massive proportions, but not always. There are a lot of linux commands that will help you [...]

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