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Say you have a text file, and you want to know either how many lines are in the file, how many words are in the file, or how many characters are in the file. How can you do that? Counting them manually would take way too long. This is where wc comes in! The wc …
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If you’re used to running Framebuffer for higher resolution consoles within Linux console, then you’ll be used to the vga=xxx switch on your bootloader. As this takes a three letter code for various resolutions, some may use vga=791 for example – but what if you want a different resolution? You need a different code, which …
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Wondering where that Print Screen button is you’re used too? Well, it’s not available on a Mac – instead, there is a key combination to take a screenshot (remember to press all buttons at the same time in this order!): Full Screenshot Apple/cmd + Shift + 3 The file will then be put onto your …
New users to Linux or BSD, will have no doubt come across Vim (or at least Vi). Vim is “Vi IMproved” – it’s simply an extended Vi. You’ll have probably had times when you need to do something very simple, such as Cut and Paste, and not been able to, just because you don’t know …
If you run an SSH server, and have left it on the default port, you’ll probably notice in time lots of login attempts. These login attempts will be from random IP addresses, and usually try lots of different username/password combinations, and hopefully failing. This article will focus on OpenSSH – I’m not sure if all …
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Screenshots; everyone loves them – whether it’s to show off your new shiny desktop, or just to record something on the screen at that moment in time, we’ve all taken lots! I guess at the moment a lot of screenshots are being taken with the GNOME tool, but what if you don’t use GNOME? What …
You may, at some point, need a quick way to end all processes for a specific username, instead of listing them all and going through each one. Sure, you could write a small script to do this, and that’s what the developer of slay has done. slay is a shell script which, when given a …
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If like me you use telnet a lot, you’ll have been surprised when the command wasn’t available to you within Windows Vista. This is because Microsoft have taken telnet out of the default Windows Vista installation, and made it a feature which you have to manually install. Installing telnet within Vista is simple, though, and …
Everyone has a long list of tasks to do of a day – and everyone always forgets something; we just can’t remember everything. This is where Getting Things GNOME! (gtg for short) comes in – an application for the GNOME desktop environment, that focuses on being easy to use, but powerful and flexible at the …
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Following on from my post about how to mount an ISO image under Linux, this article will focus on doing the same thing from within Windows. From Mount an ISO Image Under Linux: “You may have many ISO images lying around of various CDs or DVDs. ISO images are an exact copy of an optical disk, …
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