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Aug
9
GNU Screen
August 9, 2007 | 33 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 […]
Jul
23
bash programmable completion
July 23, 2007 | 12 Comments
Bash is probably the easiest and most user friendly shell that many beginners start up with. Many veteran UNIX guys such as myself still use bash because it makes moving around a unix system and writing scripts effortless for some reason. I also like the history and command completion of bash and in my opinion […]
Jul
18
Testing ScribeFire
July 18, 2007 | 17 Comments
I just downloaded ScribeFire. It is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. I’m currently using it to post this up and so far I like it. What makes ScribeFire so unique? Because it’s a firefox plugin. You simply download it from here and install.
Once you’ve […]
Jul
17
MySQL Management
July 17, 2007 | 25 Comments
A large percentage of small to medium sized websites depend on Mysql server to support their db infrastructure. Working with it is as easy is saying it and for some reason there are numerous web and non-web administration software written specifically to manage a Mysql server and sites running on it. This article […]
Jul
11
101 Ubuntu Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
July 11, 2007 | 62 Comments
In this article we’ve compiled 101 list of Ubuntu tutorials. If you’re thinking of switching to Ubuntu from Windows, don’t waste your time thinking too much. Switch to Ubuntu now and you’ll never think about going back. Windows maybe more popular but Linux isn’t too far behind and Ubuntu distro is one of the main […]
Jul
10
Torrent tools for Linux
July 10, 2007 | 4 Comments
In this article, we’ve put together a short list of torrent tools available to make your torrenting experience more interesting.
Torrent Episode Downloader - a smart tool for using BitTorrent to automatically download the newest episodes of TV shows that you choose. It has built-in support for “24″, “Lost”, “The Simpsons”, “South Park”, and many more. […]
Jul
6
Desktop Multiplier
July 6, 2007 | 37 Comments
I came across this neat application called Userful Desktop Multiplier. It is a virtualized X server that turns one computer into ten “workstations” by using extra video cards, keyboards, and monitors. This approach offers significantly higher performance and lower hardware costs than Thin Client or LTSP. It installs on most popular Linux distributions (Red […]
Jun
28
Rsync backup solutions
June 28, 2007 | 5 Comments
To setup a quick and efficient backup system, all you need is rsync and that’s it. Rsync is a very powerful tool that can do anything and everything that has to do with moving files around within and across different networks and securely. If you setup your important directories and files to be […]
Jun
26
BASH Command-Line Editing
June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment
If you work on command-line often, then this reference guide is for you. This is a quick reference of Emacs and Vi while in command-line bash. To enable command-line editing for vi is set -o vi and for emacs it is set -o emacs.
Emacs Editing Mode
CTRL-B - Move backward one character (without deleting)
CTRL-F - […]
Jun
21
Linux file recovery
June 21, 2007 | 8 Comments
If you’re like me, you must’ve at some point deleted a file or directory that you immediately regretted after. On Windows, it’s easy to recover…just go to recycle bin and restore but on Linux, how do you do it? Specially if you delete something on command line. Some distros of Linux […]