How to be more keyboardy: Update
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Life is short. Be more keyboardy.
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Life is short. Be more keyboardy.
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OK, I'm going to do this without looking. It will be something like pdftotext foo | grep whatever, right? Let's watch and see.... Well, close enough. Note that that was not being done on a Debian system. For Debian (like Ubuntu) you would use apt...
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ftp is for transferring files over networks, and ssh is for doing that plus more. These are pretty easy to use command line tools, but there is a program in Gnome that provides an excellent GUI interface for them. gFTP: To comment on this post,...
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The example Sean gives us here is probably kind of dumb. One of the more useful aliases is for people trained on another system who want things like "dir" to give you a directly lesson (so you set dir to be an alias of ls,...
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This is mundane but important. A word on the command line. I recently read a critique of Linux written by some pinhead from Russia explaining in detail why Linux was not "desktop ready." Which is laughable. Anyway, Dweeb claimed that one of the reasons that...
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Is he doing this from memory or is he looking it up as he goes along?...
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Sean Powers' tip of the day: Thank you Sean. now, can we do a better job that Sean did and come up with some actual uses for this ability?...
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How to make the wireless card in your laptop work. Maybe.
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