Today I had to figure out the Java version installed on my machine while digging through some problems with my IntelliJ IDE. This is how you can get the currently installed Java version and vendor on Ubuntu or other Debian derivatives on bash. $> sysinfo That gives you something like that: Java Version: 1.8.0_131 Java […]
Today I had the challenge, that I wanted to copy a DVD and  play it with the VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html). Therefore I had to learn how to mount iso file(s) under Linux. In my case it was Ubuntu 16.04.1. (see also my article about how to get your Linux distribution and version). How to […]
Recently I messed up my life by running this from out of my home folder: $> chmod 600 * Naturally I thought to be in another folder 😉 The result was, that I could not open any programs any more. What was not that nice! 😉 To get out of trouble I had to run […]
