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How to get an amazing Terminal In Windows and Linux; including prompts, fonts, and colors As a developer with 10+ years of experience, I love using the shell. The commands never change, I can create custom shortcuts, it’s reliable and fast. The defaults are not great, though. After reading this article, you will know how to get an awesome shell + terminal on your system … Read More »

Why I prefer Linux over Windows This is a quick article I had for quite a while as a draft.It might not be finished or have other problems, but I still want to share it. Some friends wondered why I prefer Linux over Windows. As I am currently using only Linux, I can make some … Read More »

Change password in ATIS Recently, the Heartbleed bug was discovered. It works like this: Heartbleed ExplanationFrom xkcd One effect of that bug is that you have to change your password. From xkcd You can do that from home via SSH. Just replace s_thoma by s_[your last name]: $ ssh [email protected] … Read More »

Install and configure computer When I reinstall my computer, I usually do these following steps: Copy all data to an external HDD Save configuration: Write down all WLAN configurations (eventually with screenshots; NOT ONLY PASSWORDS!) .ssh and GPG keys Filezilla configurations Write down all programs that I use. Export configuration of those programs. Wait … Read More »

SLURM SLURM is short for 'Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management'. It helps you to make use of a cluster by giving you a command line interface to add jobs to a queue. That means, you and other users can specify program calls that get executed as soon als all conditions … Read More »

Working with Terminal I've just switched from Bash to ZSH because of oh-my-ZSH. I think this is just the right time to explain the words Shell, command line, Terminal, Bash and ZSH. Terminal is an terminal emulator, sometimes also called a "terminal window". I work in a window environment (MATE) and I want … Read More »

How to install Arch Linux 2013.10.01 I've watched the following video which explains pretty much everything there is to know: You might also want to read the Arch Linux Installation Guide. The German guide is also very good. I just like to add some notes. They are primarily for myself, so you really should read the … Read More »

Linux access rights and attributes RWX Files Linux files have three important access rights for files: Read Write Execute If you want to mark a file as executable, you can add the x-right: chmod +x When you want to mark a file as readable, you can dd the r-right: chmod +r … Read More »

Make your Bash more useful I just had the problem, that the bash prompt of my universities computer I've connected to via SSH looked like this: bash-4.0$ Change the prompt I think it's much more useful to see the path you're currently using. To get the current path in your bash promt, you have … Read More »

Linux Scheduler Der folgende Text wurde von Moritz Klammler, einem Informatik-Studenten am KIT, als E-Mail an die interne Mailingliste der Vorlesung geschrieben. Ich habe nur ein paar Kleinigkeiten umformuliert und die Formattierung geändert. Mailinglisten-Beitrag Der in der Vorlesung vorgestellte $\mathcal{O}(1)$ Scheduler[1] wurde vom 2.6er Linux Kernel bis Version … Read More »