Friday, April 29, 2016

Ubuntu: How to find out motherboard,BIOS info and CPU ID in Ubuntu

There are a couple of commands that can find out your machine’s motherboard manufacturer,name and other informations,list CPU ID and serial number,BIOS information.

This command gives your CPU ID:

sudo dmidecode -t 4 | grep ID
and serial number:

sudo dmidecode | grep Serial
The CPU information:

sudo dmidecode -t 4
BIOS Information:

sudo dmidecode -t 0
Motherboard information:

sudo dmidecode -t 2
and OEM:

sudo dmidecode -t 11
Reference: http://ubuntuguide.net/howto-find-out-motherboardbios-info-and-cpu-id-in-ubuntu

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Ubuntu: Step by Step Setup SVN Server



References:
http://www3.nd.edu/~zzhang4/doku.php?id=blog:install_and_use_subversion_svn_and_viewvc_on_ubuntu

http://tecadmin.net/how-to-install-and-configure-svn-server-on-ubuntu-linuxmint/#

Issue:
SVN permission denied -txn-current-lock:
solution:
under linux operating system run these commands:# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/*
# chmod -R 770 /var/svn/*

assume that /var/svn/ is where are all your repositories

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Ubuntu tar.gz Command


To create a tar.gz archive from a given folder you can use the following command 

tar -zcvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz source-folder-name 


To extract a tar.gz compressed archive you can use the following command 

tar -zxvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz