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Category: one-liners
In the old days, you could just use the "help" menu item to figure this out (drilling down to "about") but now there is so much "helpful" crap in the dialog that opens when you do so, that it has become much less helpful. So...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:45 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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: Technology
Google is great, and yes, I know all those tricks that make it greater. But I still want to use REGEX in some cases. So, I figured out a way to do that, in theory, all I need now is the code......
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:07 AM • 7 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: Technology
This is a continuation of a discussion of the role of the command line in both the functionality and the culture of the three main operating systems used today general purpose desktop computers: Linux, and the other two. Today's toic: Underlying power....
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:16 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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