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Category: Command Line Interface (CLI)
The Linux command 'units' may or may not be installed on your system. If not, if you use synaptic or apt, type (at the prompt) sudo apt-get install units or equiviliant for other distributions. Then type in the word "units" and play around. Here are...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:34 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Command Line Interface (CLI)
Computer-based calendars are very useful, and the Google Calendar is probably one of the more widely used personal calendars other than scheduling programs such as MS Outlook and Groupwise (both of which are broken). But, webby gooey applications can be rather bothersome because they tend...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:05 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
This is the first in a series about using the "command line" in Linux. It is also about knowing when to use a gui instead. But before going into any of that we need to understand what is meant by a "command line" application. You'll...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:54 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
he Linux market share continues to flatline. Here's a piece on why. My explanation? Same as for a lot of things: People are morons, by and large. The article linked to mentions very good reasons that Linux should indeed not be adopted by others....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:36 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
And, in theory, this should apply to other software as well, but don't get mad at me if something goes terribly wrong.......
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:20 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
