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A dummies introduction to GNU Screen

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

 
With graphical user interfaces becoming more and more friendly and easy to use, new users of GNU/Linux and the BSDs can now get their daily work done without having to tinker around (very often) with a terminal. However, many users don’t like to use a GUI for every task, and find that they necessarily need [...]

Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Here ya go folks maybe the most complete collection of Linux cheat sheets on the web. I am sure that you will find one or two that you have not seen yet.
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Learning the shell

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Why bother?
Why do you need to learn the command line anyway? Well, let me tell you a story. Not long ago we had a problem where I used to work. There was a shared drive on one of our file servers that kept getting full. I won’t mention that this legacy operating system did not [...]

Get started with GnuPG

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

GnuPG is an open replacement for PGP Corporation’s PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption tool, and based on the OpenPGP standard. What GnuPG (or GPG for short) does is allow for the encryption and decryption of files using a public/private keypair. It can be used to encrypt regular files or e-mail, in either binary or ASCII [...]

What NOT to do with your old computers

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Why not throw away your old obsolete PCs when you can re-purpose them as a file/print server, firewall or some other single-purpose appliance? People have been doing this forever–at least since about 1988, when those old dual-floppy IBM 5150 PCs started getting obsoleted by PCs powered by Intel’s 386-based processors, and businesses were installing Ethernet-driven, [...]

Five Firefox Tips You May Not Know About

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

The thing I like best about Firefox is that just when you think you know everything there is to know about the browser, something new comes along and surprises you.
I discovered five new Firefox tips today. Maybe these are old hat and you know them already. Or maybe like me, you had no idea these [...]

A Vista vs. Linux Matchup

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Ok, I have to admit it sometime, so now is as good a time as any…. Yea, I did it, I’ve got a new laptop coming and yes, it’s got Vista…. I’ve been getting a lot of calls for private tutoring, most of these people are running Vista, despite me telling everyone I see NOT [...]

HOWTO Get a load of hard-disk space back

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

 
A handy tip — if you use Thunderbird to get your email, don’t forget to occasionally run File -> Compact Folders. I did so yesterday and reclaimed nearly 20GB of hard drive space! Comparing my mail folder to my backup, I discovered that every single email that I’d “deleted” for over a year (by putting [...]

Howto Auto Start Modules

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Howto Auto Start Modules in gOS
This tutorial uses Nano, a terminal text editor to edit /etc/modules

Technorati Tags: gOS, Linux, Linux Tutorials
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Building a Home File Server

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Setting up a file server doesn’t need to be complicated.

Source: Linux Journal
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