Technology Tips, and Anything Else
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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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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mtr is an small utility which combines both the functionality of traceroute and ping, for Linux and BSD. There are always occasions where you’ve wanted to traceroute to a host, possibly due to connectivity issues, and you need to diagnose where the problem lies. Most operating systems offer basic traceroute and ping utilities, but what …
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It’s important to know where mail goes for a domain, especially if you’re a system administrator looking after mail servers. There are a whole host of web sites you can use to find MX records now – MX Records are the DNS entry so servers know where to send e-mail, destined to that domain. The …
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The announcement of Google Chrome OS is certainly causing a stir around the internet. Questions questions questions – everyone has them, and very few have answers up to now. Initially, Google Chrome OS is going to be aimed at netbooks – you know, those small, ultra portable, cheap machines which aren’t quite powerful enough to …
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There’s a lot of information and news floating around the internet about Google Chrome OS. This post aims to do a quick roundup of the main information, so you don’t end up viewing the some 1500 news stories (at present) about it! I’ve taken information from the original Google blog post (which, of course, we …
By default, Vim uses tabs instead of spaces when you press the tab button. There is an ongoing argument around the internet (which we won’t go into now, but may in the future!) on what you should use, but, either way, you may want/need to change your tabs to spaces. These are often called “soft …
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You may have many ISO images lying around of various CDs or DVDs. ISO images are an exact copy of an optical disk, and are increasingly popular – with high speed internet being available to many, people are taking advantage of this and instead of spending money on discs and shipping costs, simply making them …
There’s a command for that! So everyone in the Linux/BSD world has used the command “cat” to print out the contents of a file to screen. Infact, I find it hard to believe you can use Linux or BSD properly without using that command on log files and any other text-based file. But say you …
Whilst quite cool, it can also be quite important to keep a log of the bandwidth being used by a server – whether it’s because you have bandwidth limitations from a data center or ISP, whether you just want to see how much the server uses, or even to detect when something “strange” is going …
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