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Lean Linux File Management

The fastest, most efficient file manager in Linux is the set of GNU tools including ls, cp, and so on. But if you want a graphical user interface, you pay a cost in overhead. Considering how important file management is, and how easy it is...

Its a laptop. No, its a cell phone. No, its a ....

Hardware has gotten faster and more powerful, but the damn computers do not boot up any faster than they used to. Well, maybe a little, but not enough. Meanwhile, the primary system people use, Windows, has become increasingly bloated. As a result, it is very...

Let's talk about Alt-Tab for a moment

Ready for more shortcuts? And a small rant? These days, I find myself using a Windows computer far more often than I want to, and every day I am reminded of how much better the user interface that you get with Gnome running on Linux...

Killing a process gently

We have discussed kill before. Start an application you don't care about, say an instance of a text editor like gedit. Open a terminal and run top with the -b (for batch) option, and pipe it through grep with a phrase that should isolate the...

"Microsoft is not more expensive than Linux"

... according to a recent study funded by ... oh, never mind. Funded by Microsoft. OK, skip that, but there is some other interesting tech news....

Think Mininote: $120.00 laptop available for $98.00

8 Linux Laptop - The HiVision miniNoteby Charbax For $98 [if you wait until October], you get an ultra-portable notebook with MIPS-based processor, 7" LCD, 1GB flash storage, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, SDHC card reader, WiFi, audio in and out, voice-chat, multi-tabbed Firefox browser support,...

Win friends and fix up your data with regular expressions

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. The other day...

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Microsoft Windows: The only viable operating system.

Your computer breaks. You are a Microsoft user. So you call technical support. You: My desktop isn't displaying anything but a error message John: I am sorry to hear that, what seems to be the problem. You: My screen is displaying an error message. John:...

Google Chrome Not Ready for Real OS Deployment

How can Google be taken seriously if a) it runs it's own business on LAMP servers using mainly Python; b) develops a multi-threaded browser with a memory-conservative development API; c) call it all open source and d) make it available only on Windows? Since Google...

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