Medya Gh's notes about life and ubuntu and computer science.

list directories and their total sizes using "du" in terminal

during my investigation to find out the location of a the malicious script on my server,I found out 7GB folder on my account that I didnt know where they are. (the spam files) the "du" come very handy for me today to list all the folders and their sizes in the current directory :

du -sh *

the output will be something like this:
 root@server # du * -sh
14M administrator
824K cache
4.0K cgi-bin
24K cli
2.4M components
4.0K configuration.php
152K discussion
4.0K error_log
4.0K htaccess.txt
7GB images
60K includes

[Terminal Tip] How to switch tabs in terminal in ubuntu/linux?



If you are like me used to switch tabs everywhere by CTRL+T , you might also find it frustrating that it doesn't work in Terminal .

Tip of the day : to switch tabs in terminal simply learn this shortcut:

CTRL+PAGE UP/ PAGE DOWN

Linux Geeks Meet-Up in Chicago

DePaul Linux Community invites all  the Linux geeks in Chicago to join us a meet up conference in DePaul University.





Location:       DePaul Center 8010  
1 East Jackson, Chicago,
IL, USA

Date:     April 22nd 2013   

Time:     2:00PM – 4:00 PM   


For more information please contact: dlinuxcommunity@gmail.com

How Make GEdit load faster in Ubuntu



I can't believe I let my gedit to be that slow for that long time in ubuntu, I knew there is a way to make Gedit faster.
it is simple go to preferences, and disable all disable all the unnecessary plugins, specially the "File Browser". infact that File Browser is the source of the problem, every time you open a gedit is does some file s

Pre-installed Virtual Machines for Virtualbox for Free


Nowadays you dont really need to download an ISO of an operating system and install it yourself in virtualbox, you can download one of these Virtualbox pre-installed appliances for free .
(it is a shame some websites actualy ask you money for that) here is a good repository of pre-installed virtual machines.

http://virtualboxes.org/images/
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