If you’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for a while now it’s quite likely that you have installed packages on your system. There are several ways to install packages on Ubuntu – some simple, others a little more complicated. Let’s look at some of the options you have at hand. …
awk, sed, and grep are three of my favorite tools in the Linux or UNIX command line. They are all pretty powerful. Today we’ll look at how to get cracking with awk to help you ease into using it. Then we’ll look at some useful awk one liners to make things a bit more fun for you. …
Computers are not reliable, no matter what your computer vendors will tell you. They have a habit of crashing at the most critical of times. And when they crash they take with them all the hard work you have put in for weeks and maybe months. It could be your professional work or your school assignments. The only realistic guard you have against these crashes are backups. Making regular backups gives you the layer of protection, and it does not come with too much added effort. Simple Backup, or sBackup, is a fine backup solution for Linux computers. It allows you to configure what you want backed up, and once configured, it can take regular backups for you. A key feature that this particular solution also provides, which many backup solutions don’t seem to, is a the ability to help you restore your data easily. Let’s look at how to install and setup sBackup on your Ubuntu computer. …
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Earlier we looked at how to get started with using Windows Live Writer to write blog posts to a WordPress blog. Now let’s look at some more advanced features that Windows Live Writers has to offer for WordPress users. …
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In this first tutorial, we’ll show you how to setup Windows Live Writer – a free program from Microsoft for creating, editing and managing blog posts on your WordPress based site. …
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This detailed guide will show you how to use the tool “aspell” to spell check documents from the Linux command line. …
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This guide will show you how to create custom selective Linux backups where you specify exactly which files you want backed up. …
This step-by-step guide explains how to change the default SSH port (22) on your Linux machine. …
This guide will explain how to get a list of open files, sockets and pipes in Linux using the lsof command. …
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This guide will explain how to run a remote backup over SSH so that your backups are stored in multiple places. …
If you are somewhat familiar with using the Linux or UNIX command line interface it is quite likely that you have used the history command. For those not familiar with it the history command allows you to search through the commands you have already run on your computer’s command line. …
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This tutorial will show you exactly how to convert a web page (HTML) to a PDF document in Linux, using free & open source software. …
Oftentimes my Ubuntu desktop loses track of time. Really. What happens is that the time it maintains goes a few minutes here and there every month. So I like to use a very useful Linux service called NTP to help keep the clock on my Ubuntu desktop in sync with well maintained clocks over the Internet. Let’s look at how to set this up. …
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This guide will show you how to compress PNG image/graphic files in Linux using completely free and open source software. …
This brief guide will get you up and running using the incredibly helpful “grep” command for Linux and other *nix operating systems – even the latest versions of macOS. …
