22 March, 2009 (10:52) | Firefox, PawEng Software, Shell, Windows
Ubiquity is Mozilla’s new tool that adds a command line to Firefox. We reported on it back in August 2008. Since then there have been a number of enhancement and upgrades to it. It is a very useful tool. In fact, it is so useful that I often wish I could use it from anywhere [...]
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22 January, 2009 (19:15) | Linux, Shell
Many Linux / Unix programs create temporary files with names like “#file#” or “file~”. If a program crashes, you may be left with “core” files. These files serve a purpose, but quite often it is useful to remove them. I have been using the script below for a decade or more to keep my directories [...]
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4 January, 2009 (10:27) | Linux, Shell, Web, Windows
Now that computers have become so powerful, it is possible to simultaneously run multiple operating systems on a single computer. I like to use Windows as my main operation system, but sometimes I need access to a Linux system. Dual-booting Windows an Linux is possible, but often I want to juggle back and forth between [...]
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Tags: Howto, Linux, Shell, Windows
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24 November, 2008 (20:38) | Linux, Shell
Scott Klarr has collected a huge number of cheat sheets for everything from programming to Photoshop. They are organized in groups, and some groups like the Linux / Unix group contain more than 70 cheat sheets. The groups include:
C, C++, C#
Gimp
Windows
Networking
Linux / Unix
Designer color charts
Vi & Vim
Emacs
Photoshop
Perl
Regular Expressions
MySQL
PHP
CSS
Javascript / Ajax
Html
The cheat sheets are available at [...]
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15 August, 2008 (18:29) | Linux, Shell
I spend a lot of time on a Linux / Unix command line. Often I need to do a quick calculation. I don’t want to hunt around for a fancy calculator program. I want something that works right from the command line.
The bc program is a command line calculator for Linux / Unix. It is [...]
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Tags: Calculator, Linux, Shell, Unix
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