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Category: Linux
This is a rewrite and amalgamation, into one post, of a series of earlier posts written for non-geeks just starting out with Linux. The idea is to provide the gist, a few important facts, and some fun suggestions, slowly and easily. At some level all...
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Category: Linux
...A door had slammed shut for Thompson and Ritchie in March of 1969, when their employer, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., withdrew from a collaborative project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Electric to create an interactive time-sharing system called Multics, which...
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Category: Linux
The Linux Journal reader's choice awards have been announced. You'll recall that I suggested to you some time ago that you contribute your vote. Now, you can find out if you won!...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:46 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
I have a small laptop that I carry to the coffee shop for writing. It is a bit shaky in the hardware department, very small, and has no functioning wireless. The hard drive is encrypted. These attributes together make it the perfect laptop to carry...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:40 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
Linux probably has a lot more FOSS tools for editing PDF's than other platforms. ImageMagick will do basic manipulation from the command line. But for a GUI interactive kind of editing, you should look at PDFedit sudo apt-get install pdfedit You can do what I'm...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:27 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Tricks
I haven't tried this yet, but it looks like it works....
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:27 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
... using ssh ......
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Category: Linux
I remember one day when Richard Stallman, a nobody, was featured on a local news story. Since I was living in Cambridge, some local news stories were about work being done by Harvard or MIT researchers, and in this case, Stallman was an MIT Hacker...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:35 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
The deadline is approaching for you to submit your preferences for the Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards. For purposes of discussion, here are (most of my) choices:...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:14 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
I agree with Shawn Powers that Unity has offended all that is good in this world by aggressively grabbing so much of my screen real estate much like Hitler grabbed the Rhineland. Well, OK, S.P. is not so Godwinesque in his language, but still.... Unity...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:32 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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