Month: February 2014
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How to install additional CentOS packages on XenServer 6.2
While it is unsupported, it can sometimes be quite handy to install additional packages on your XenServer 6.2 system – things like vim, iptraf, perhaps even denyhosts. By default extra packages you wish to install are likely disabled, but using yum we can temporarily allow access to the CentOS packages. Logging in as root…
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How to delete the rest of a line after the cursor in vim?
Vim has a host of really useful shortcuts; the one we are looking at today allows you to delete the text on the same line after the cursor position. To do this, move the cursor to the desired position and hit: shift+d In other words, a capital D. We don’t need a…
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Ubuntu: How to disconnect a telnet session
If you haven’t used telnet much you might expect ctrl+c or ctrl+d to cancel a command and return you to the prompt. Try instead: ctrl+] Once you are back at the telnet prompt you can exit back to your shell using ctrl+d.