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openSUSE 11 ? beta screenshots
2008-04-19 04:07:00 Less than two months remain untill the eagerly anticipated openSUSE 11 is finally released. The current official screen shots of the beta1 release can be found on the openSUSE website and openSUSE is looking slicker than ever! I am very eager to take the openSUSE beta1 for a test drive and to post my own ... More About: Beta , Screenshots
ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron ? beta screenshots
2008-03-22 12:20:00 Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Beta Screenshots More About: Linux , Ubuntu
avi to cd ? avi trim, avi to iso, iso to cd with cdrecord
2008-03-20 10:34:00 How to trim an AVI file, convert it to an ISO image and burn it to CD using cdrecord. More About: Linux , Tools , Trim
mplayer — multiple sound cards: select audio device
2008-03-17 11:32:00 Mplayer examples of how to select an audio architecture, e.g. ALSA vs OSS as well as how to select a specific audio device if you have multiple sound cards. More About: Audio , Sound , Device , Cards , Select
synergy — open source keyboard-mouse switch software
2008-02-28 10:04:00 Synergy software allows for use of the same mouse and keyboard for many PCs. More About: Software , Open Source , Open , Source , Switch
Connection reset by peer ? ssh sshfs error
2008-02-14 05:27:00 How to fix the 'read: Connection reset by peer' sshfs error. More About: Peer , Error , Reset
gimp ? creating cool flame effects
2008-02-13 16:36:00 A video tutorial on how to create cool abstract graphics using Gimp . More About: Tools , Cool , Creating , Effects
matlab djpegxx bug ? problem calling ghostscript: system error
2008-01-27 12:53:00 Recently, I wrote Matlab code that does some processing, plots the results and saves the plots as compressed JPEGs. When I run it on a cluster as part of a batch job I got the following error: "Problem calling GhostScript. System returned error". Apparently Matlab releases prior to R2007a suffer from a bug to do ... More About: Calling , Error
Linux Blog Forums ? Brand new discussion forums are now open!
2008-01-19 13:11:00 Linux Blog now has discussion forums! Whether you are after a quick feedback on a Linux related issue or a general discussion about Linux, the Linux Blog Forums are there to provide this facility for you! The forums are based on the highly popular phpBB software. We are looking forward to seeing the forums community grow. Join us today! More About: Linux , Internet , Open
rmnl ? remove new line characters with tr, awk, perl, sed or C/C++
2008-01-15 17:12:00 How to remove new line characters: example shell one-liners using tr, awk, perl, sed, haskell, ghc, xargs, sam, ssam, bash and python. C and C++ source code examples are also provided. More About: Linux , Tools , Perl , Characters , Line
rmnl ? remove new line characters with tr, awk, perl, sed or C/C++
2008-01-15 17:12:00 How to remove new line characters: example shell one-liners using tr, awk, perl and sed. C and C++ source code examples are also provided. More About: Linux , Tools , Perl , Characters , Line
firefox ? can?t connect securely ? security protocol not enabled
2008-01-05 17:54:00 In an effort to keep the web communication secure the web browser support for older, inferior, security protocols gets phased out over time. This encourages web server administrators to employ up to date security protocols. Unfortunately, this is not always successful and some web servers still employ older and weaker protocols. If you have no alternative but to use a less secure service this post explains how to enable older security protocols in the firefox web browser. More About: Security , Firefox , Connect , Protocol , Proto
the power of reddit: spreddit ? detailed web server statistics
2007-12-29 15:57:00 Recently, I posted a Linux Blog article on a number of social bookmark sites including reddit.com, del.icio.us, digg.com and stumbleupon.com. The article generated limited interest on most of these sites with the exception of reddit.com. The volume of reddit readers visiting in the initial twelve hours was extraordinary. What follows are detailed web server statistics ... More About: Power , Website , Web Server , Statistics , Server
latex ? professional Résumé layout made simple
2007-12-20 16:28:00 Résumé, Curriculum Vitae or simply CV is an important brief about your professional life. It is likely to be one of the first contacts with a prospective employer. Curriculum Vitae means course of life in Latin. So what exactly should a Résumé contain and how detailed should it be? There is no silver bullet answer. ... More About: Tools , Made , Simple , Layout , Professional
Java JVM bug ? broken Java application GUI in Compiz and Beryl
2007-12-17 16:36:00 Compositing window managers, such as Compiz and Beryl , are eye candy we have grown accustomed to. However, there is bug in certain editions of Sun’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that makes Java applications not render some parts of their Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). All AWT and Swing Java programs suffer from this bug, including the ... More About: Application , Broken
Java JVM bug ? broken Java application GUI in Compiz and Beryl
2007-12-17 16:36:00 Compositing window managers, such as Compiz and Beryl , are eye candy we have grown accustomed to. However, there is bug in certain editions of Sun’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that makes Java applications not render some parts of their Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). All AWT and Swing Java programs suffer from this bug, including the ... More About: Application , Broken
hostname: Unknown host ? hostname not resolving error
2007-12-17 08:53:00 Recently, I encountered the following error message on one of our openSUSE boxes (version 10.2 — if you are not sure which distro version you are running, then see this short post: finding out Linux release version). More About: Host , Unknown , Hostname , Error
hostname: Unknown host ? hostname not resolving error
2007-12-15 08:53:00 Recently, I encountered the following error message on one of our openSUSE boxes (version 10.2 — if you are not sure which distro version you are running, then see this short post: finding out Linux release version). More About: Host , Unknown , Hostname , Error
a2ps ? printing files from Linux shell
2007-12-12 10:35:00 Linux shell is a powerful tool, since it is easy and convenient to perform many tasks directly from it. An example of this is sending files to the printer. While there are many ways of achieving this, in this post I will concentrate on the use of a small but very useful GNU utility called ... More About: Linux , Tools , Shell , Printer , Configuration
a2ps ? printing files from Linux shell
2007-12-12 10:35:00 Linux shell is a powerful tool, since it is easy and convenient to perform many tasks directly from it. An example of this is sending files to the printer. While there are many ways of achieving this, f.e. to send content as is you could use the lpr or kprinter commands. In this post however, ... More About: Linux , Tools , Shell , Printer , Configuration
a2ps ? printing files from Linux shell
2007-12-12 10:35:00 Linux shell is a powerful tool, since it is easy and convenient to perform many tasks directly from it. An example of this is sending files to the printer. While there are many ways of achieving this, in this post I will concentrate on the use of a small but very useful GNU utility called ... More About: Linux , Tools , Shell , Printer , Configuration
find ? how to replicate a complex directory and file structure
2007-11-29 09:50:00 Consider an example where you have a directory, called timit with many sub-directories that contain lots of files. Now, lets say you want to create a mirror copy of this complex directory structure in the /tmp directory, as well as a selective copy of its files based on certain pattern. Lets say we only want ... More About: Linux , Tools , File , Directory , Find
find ? how to replicate a complex directory and file structure
2007-11-29 09:50:00 Consider an example where you have a directory, called timit with many sub-directories that contain lots of files. Now, lets say you want to create a mirror copy of this complex directory structure in the /tmp directory, as well as a selective copy of its files based on certain pattern. Lets say we only want ... More About: Linux , Tools , File , Directory , Find
find ? how to replicate a complex directory and file structure
2007-11-29 09:50:00 Consider an example where you have a directory, called timit with many sub-directories that contain lots of files. Now, lets say you want to create a mirror copy of this complex directory structure in the /tmp directory, as well as a selective copy of its files based on certain pattern. Lets say we only want ... More About: Linux , Tools , File , Directory , Find
tar ? how to create and extract tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives
2007-11-27 12:58:00 Introduction The commonly employed archive types on Linux and Unix systems are tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives. Note that tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives are simply gzip-ped and bzip(2)-ped tar archives, respectively. Working with these files is made very simple through the use of GNU tar utility, which is included as part of the base packages in ... More About: Archives , Create , Extract , Hive
tar ? how to create and extract tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives
2007-11-27 12:58:00 Introduction The commonly employed archive types on Linux and Unix systems are tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives. Note that tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives are simply gzip-ped and bzip(2)-ped tar archives, respectively. Working with these files is made very simple through the use of GNU tar utility, which is included as part of the base packages in ... More About: Archives , Create , Extract , Hive
tar ? how to create and extract tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives
2007-11-27 12:58:00 Introduction The commonly employed archive types on Linux and Unix systems are tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives. Note that tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives are simply gzip-ped and bzip(2)-ped tar archives, respectively. Working with these files is made very simple through the use of GNU tar utility, which is included as part of the base packages in ... More About: Archives , Create , Extract , Hive
./ ? dealing with a leading minus in filenames under Linux shell
2007-11-26 11:42:00 Dealing with files whose filenames contain special shell characters can be tricky. Unless you know how to handle their filenames properly, you may not be able to perform even simple operations on such files. In this post I’ll show you how to deal with files starting with the minus (-) character, as well as with ... More About: Linux , Shell , Leading
./ ? dealing with a leading minus in filenames under Linux shell
2007-11-26 11:42:00 Dealing with files whose filenames contain special shell characters can be tricky. Unless you know how to handle their filenames properly, you may not be able to perform even simple operations on such files. In this post I’ll show you how to deal with files starting with the minus (-) character, as well as with ... More About: Linux , Shell , Leading
./ ? dealing with a leading minus in filenames under Linux shell
More articles from this author:2007-11-26 11:42:00 Dealing with files whose filenames contain special shell characters can be tricky. Unless you know how to handle their filenames properly, you may not be able to perform even simple operations on such files. In this post I’ll show you how to deal with files starting with the minus (-) character, as well as with ... More About: Linux , Shell , Leading 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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