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Behalve videospelletjes één van de grote voordelen om computers te gebruiken is dat zij niet schijnen letten op doend boring en herhaalde taken geen die wij eerder zouden doen. Voor monotone taken zoals het runnen van dagelijkse steunen zijn wij beter van het plannen van hen om in een bepaalde tijd elke dag te lopen, en interessanter materiaal met onze tijd te doen. Linux en het UNIX komen gewoonlijk met het nut „crontab“ door gebrek. Dit zeer nuttige bevel staat u toe om taken te plannen om in een gespecificeerde tijd te lopen en te herhalen zoals gevormd. Taak het geplande gebruiken wordt „crontab“ genoemd een „cronbaan“. [klik om verder te gaan…]

Hebt u ooit kwam over .cbr of .cbz dossier? Goed, zijn dit fundamenteel .rar en .zip dossiers die met grappige lezingsprogramma's moeten worden gebruikt. Mijn favoriet grappig programma van de boeklezing is CdisplayEX. Het is een open bronkloon van een ouder programma, CDisplay. [klik om verder te gaan…]

If you have a Linux server running at your office or at a data center for which you are responsible, you want to maintain an uptime of as close to a hundred percent. In such a case you want to make sure you keep an eye on how the system is running. To be precise you want to monitor all the system resources that contribute to the system running fine which then results in a high uptime. Memory, CPU, disk usage… are some of the things you want to observe. We would usually use a combination of the tools that come with a Linux or UNIX installation, such as “free”, “top”, “vmstat”… I’ll introduce you to a tool that gives you just about all the info that the other tools combined give you, all under one roof - Dstat. The developer of this command line tool, Dag Wieers, calls it “a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat”. He adds that “Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features…” To me Dstat is the mother of all command line system monitoring tools. It’s simple to install, easy to use, can be tweaked with ease, and it generates reports that you can plot as a graph to impress your boss. [click to continue...]

TrueCrypt is a free, open source, system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted filesystem. TrueCrypt is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Encrypted volumes can be used with any supported OS regardless of which OS they were created on. [click to continue...]

This tutorial will guide you through turning your N95 into a pedometer using the Nokia Step Counter. [click to continue...]

I recently made the switch from 32 bit Vista to 64 bit. Mostly everything went just as smoothly as my old 32 bit OS, but there were a few hiccups. For example, previously mentioned WinSecret no longer had the option for hiding shortcut arrows! This may seem like a small thing, but Vista’s shortcut arrows take up about 3/4th of the actual icon sometimes. [click to continue...]

I covered making your own ringtones from MP3s in a previous article, but for a truly unique ringtone, you can use Open Source (free) audio editor Audacity to record your own homemade ringtones. If you phone allows each contact to have its own ringtone then you can have your kids or friends record their own special ringtone for you and know who is calling without looking at your phone. [click to continue...]

This isn’t really a tutorial, more like a list of some of the bash commands that I use the most and a very brief description of what I use them for. [click to continue...]

WinSecret is a simple and powerful tweaking application for Windows XP and Vista. Just download it, install it, and launch it. [click to continue...]

I’m not a Windows user, so I’m not an Internet Explorer user. I have a Hotmail account just so I can chat with friends who only use MSN Messenger. Some of these friends feel the need to send email to my Hotmail account rather than my Gmail account so I do log in to check it now and again. Of course, I’m using Firefox on Linux, so things should work just fine, right? Not entirely. [click to continue...]

One of the reasons Foobar is a favorite application of mine is because it does so much stuff for a program its size. I’m going to be talking about audio conversion in this post, but that’s just one of the many things Foobar can do. It should be noted that I’m using the latest beta version of Foobar (9.6 Beta 3) which you can download here. [click to continue...]

This is guest post from Ivan at Hacks PC blog, where he writes about various PC Tutorials. Fell free to subscribe to his RSS Feed if you are interested to follow his writing.

Sometimes you have to convert videos, pictures or other files to another format. There are many applications which can convert various types of file formats. But why spend time downloading and installing software which can contain viruses, spyware etc, when you can convert many files online without downloading any software. Just go to the site, which offers free online conversion, the load file(s) from your PC, choose the format and press convert. This method is also very useful when you need to covert files from computers where you are not allowed to install any additional software, like at work or school. Below you can find list of free sites which offer online file conversions. [click to continue...]

Sometimes you want to change your partition layout after you’ve been using your system for awhile. One great too for this job is GParted. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to resize partitions using the GParted Live CD. [click to continue...]

Disk Usage Analyzer is a Gnome utility for analyzing disk usage. It displays statistics about your disk usage in an intuitive, easy to use graphical interface. [click to continue...]