Re: [SLUG] addendum

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sat Jun 20 2009 - 14:52:45 EDT


On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Shawn J. Goff wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:21:55 -0400 (EDT)
> Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Shawn J. Goff wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:53:30 -0400 (EDT)
>>> "Pamela J. Ashworth (webmail)" <pashworth@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> it's been so long since I've played Linux, that, when my password
>>>> was not working, I had to call my brother to ask how to change the
>>>> password. (couldn't remember the command) so, use little words...
>>>>
>>>> and yes, he did promise to look at it to see if it's been "cracked"
>>>> as soon as he is near a computer again.
>>>
>>> I'm not quite understanding the problem. Is it that something is
>>> using up your cpu but you don't know what? If so, you can run !h in
>>> a console to find out what is currently taking up cpu cycles. Maybe
>>> that will help find a culprit.
>>
>> "!h"? That'll just run the last thing you typed beginning with "h".

> Interesting. On crunchbang (maybe all Ubuntus) it runs top.

I'm running Ubuntu something and it does the usual history-searching thing.
"!" is like "^R" without a lot of the interactive features.

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