Linux – Get information about installed memory

On Ubuntu you’ll get the all memory (RAM) information with: $> cat /proc/meminfo Example output: MemTotal: 32829172 kB MemFree: 27614092 kB Buffers: 350460 kB Cached: 2232256 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 2629788 kB Inactive: 1925788 kB Active(anon): 1989372 kB Inactive(anon): 443036 kB Active(file): 640416 kB Inactive(file): 1482752 kB Unevictable: 6056 kB Mlocked: 6056 kB SwapTotal: 0 […]

Copy system image to SD-Card

To get a bootable SD-Card from an image file (*.img) you can run teh dd command like tahe $> sudo dd if=/home/bravehartk2/Dropbox/Elektrotechnik/Banana/Raspbian_For_BananaPi_v3_0.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M && sync This creates the necessary boot bartition and system partition on device  /dev/mmcblk0. To get a list of your mounted partitions look here.  

Change screenshot storage location under Mac OSX

Change screenshot storage location under Mac OSX you have to run the following command on a terminal: $> defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures/ $> killall SystemUIServer After running the commands above, your screenshots are stored in the Pictures folder of your users home folder. The article screenshot shortcuts for Mac OSX describes how to take screenshots via […]