HOWTO start a detached process in screen on boot

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Ok, a quick one today – at work I had the problem of needing a process to be automatically started during boot, and have it running in the background, but it didn’t have its own init.d script. I knew there was a way I could use GNU Screen (one of my favorite ‘must have’ sys… Read more »

HOWTO: automatically reconfigure Xorg in Debian

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If you’re like me, you’ve messed up your xorg.conf before and wanted to start over with the default that you know dpkg-reconfigure can set it to.  Because of this I’m posting here because I’ve needed it multiple times in the past and have tired of looking it up!  To automatically reconfigure Xorg in Debian or… Read more »