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Category: Linux
You are typing some text into an editing window in your FIrefox Browser, and you spell something terribly wrong. Like this: I am so glad I upgreaded to Firefox 2.0, because it has a built in spell checker. You see the error where you meant...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:06 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
The command dmidecode is " is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:06 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
And when I say bash math, I do not mean being mean to math, and I do not mean math as it is done in bash. I mean math as humans do it, but on the bash command line....
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:35 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
Log files are good because they log stuff, so you can find out what's been going on and troubleshoot. But they tend to accumulate and can actually fill up your hard drive. Most Linux distros have automatic log file management for common system logs, but...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:11 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
Do you know about the obscure Linux command 'seq'????? It is actually quite cool....
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:16 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: one-liners
In many instances, a well thought-out regular expression can convince most non-technical people in the room that you're a computer genius who's brain possesses more synapses, forming more bridges and firing more rapidly than anyone's ever should. Oh this is so true.......
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:49 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: one-liners
... and I'm not talking about Ceiling Cat. I'm talking about the Linux command cat....
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:26 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Tricks
Getting rid of those pesky comments in your all important configuration files....
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:01 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
Type: ls | wc -l The output is an approximation of how many files are in the current directory....
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:02 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
Flash cookies are to cookies what horcruxes are to he who shall not be named.
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:07 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
