Few Linux tricks
A great example of how you can write a complicated Linux shell script, this article shows the thinking behind and evolution of "fridays.sh", a script that lets you calculate how many Friday the 13ths are in a given year or even in the next decade. If you're interested in shell script programing, or just want to understand what your hired coder is pumping out for big bucks, this article is a must...
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So, finally I get to see gmail notifications without using GAIM or PIDGIN. Its a small but nice software. I liked it even on windows.
It took five long years for Microsoft (MS) to launch their new product named Vista.
A lay man may think that MS doesn’t have that expertise with them to provide people with newer versions within a shorter span of time
Smart Pricing” is Google’s way of trying to keep its advertisers happy by lowering the cost of junk traffic. Unfortunately, they do this at your expense. Having poor advertisers on your site, will lead to you users clicking the adverts, then leaving the horrible site they land on almost instantly. When people do this, Google will think you’re sending out junky traffic, when actually it’s...
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From time to time it becomes necessary to work below the HTTP protocol layer, to debug a broken remote procedure call, or reverse engineer a third party ajax app. These tools make many low-level networking tasks a breeze.
Here are some basic Linux commands. Some are
well known and some aren’t. I am not a Linux
Wizard…far from it…but I am learning some
basic linux commands and thought I would
share some with other newbies so they to can
get more familiar with the terminal command
line.
Everyone’s talking about Ubuntuit’s not just 100% free, it’s the most useful, practical desktop Linux ever! Now, Linux expert Marcel Gagné reveals Ubuntu’s amazing power and helps you migrate from Windows faster than you ever thought possible.
Recently I read some similes between Linux and Windows. Today (04-25-2007) I performed a distribution upgrade from 6.10 Edgy Eft to 7.04 Feisty Fawn like that: --> Open System -> Administration -> Update Manager --> Click Upgrade --> done! Ok, I had to enter my root pw, too. A few clicks, some minutes and 0 Euro and I got a new distribution with all my software I had on the computer still working...
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