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Aug
22
Google Earth Advances
August 22, 2007 | 4 Comments
Google has launched Sky for Google Earth, a new feature that shows images of stars to Google Earth application. Users can zoom and do all kinds of crap that they would normally with current Google Earth.
There is expected to be over one million images from various locations. As indicated on their website, “Google […]
Aug
21
Unreal Tournament 3 For Linux!
August 21, 2007 | 6 Comments
It’s been confirmed that UT3 will be released for Linux by Epic Games. Unreal Tournament 3 (previously known as Unreal Tournament 2007) is scheduled for release towards the end of this year. You can get more details by visiting the Epic forum here.
So what does this mean for Linux and it’s community? Well!!! it means […]
Aug
21
Simple commands for Linux.
August 21, 2007 | 18 Comments
Also check out The Ultimate Linux Reference Guide for Newbies and for our network guide, The Ultimate Linux Network Reference Guide for Newbies.
List of basic commands for Linux users.
ls
List files/directories in a directory
cat <filename>
Read a file.
cp
Copy a file
mv
Move a file
rm
Delete a file
chmod
Changes file access permissions
chown
Changes file ownership
grep
Looks for patterns in files
ln
Create’s “links” between […]
Aug
20
Command Line Quickies
August 20, 2007 | 4 Comments
Sometimes you may find yourself working with hundreds or thousands of files which need to have extension removed or just changed say from .htm to .html or .php to .html for some reason. Well.. since I know you’d someday come across such an issue, we’ve put together a couple of tips that you may […]
Aug
16
Spanish Yellow Pages by LXPages
August 16, 2007 | 5 Comments
We are excited to announce the Spanish version of LXPages local search. Click on the image to use the fresh new site or you can Click Here.
Aug
9
GNU Screen
August 9, 2007 | 17 Comments
What is so special about screen? If you’re a command line freak and usually work on several things at a time then screen can have a very special place in your life. It can multiply one shell prompt into several allowing you to run IRC on first window, Vi on the second, Reading […]
Aug
3
What is LXPages Anyway?
August 3, 2007 | 3 Comments
Some may wonder why is lxpages.com, a soon to be very popular local search site writing blogs about technology and mostly Linux related articles? Part of the reason is because our infrastructure is based on a LAMP setup and to give back to the community, we occasionally write articles related to it.
To gain recognition […]