After running for a while, an Ubuntu server tend to get bloated with… stuff. One particularly weird one is the disk usage of a bunch of /var/log/journal/* entries that hog a lot of space. In my case, 2GB. This is significant on a machine with just 20GB of space. You can see their disk usage… Continue reading Clean up harddrive space on Ubuntu Server with journalctl
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The Notepad trick
There is a good reason Notepad has survived through all iterations of Windows. It is the best tool for clearing formatting! For example, copying text from a webpage to Word will often keep the formatting (color, size and so on) but copying it to Notepad first and then re-copying it to the other editor clears… Continue reading The Notepad trick
Ubuntu — not ready for primetime
I wanted to install Ubuntu on my Dell XPS 15 to try out Steam for Linux. This was not the enjoyable experience I had hoped for since a lot of things did not work perfectly out of the box. Below are some steps I had to take to get the system going. Fixing the graphics… Continue reading Ubuntu — not ready for primetime