Awesome! Thanks for putting that together! Very useful stuff. #10 does not work on ubuntu. Try it with bash! As for grep | awk, I like it. Pipelines with lots of simple components are fine, and it

I prefer using webapps when possible so I can use the same tools no matter what computer or OS I happen to be using at any given moment. As with my hardware choices the software I use has been chosen with extreme frugality in mind so I use GimpShop inste

sudo apt-get install cinnamon sudo add-apt-repository ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cinnamon su curl http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/cinnamon/fedora-cinnamon.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cinnamon

For almost three months, versions of three widely distributed open-source applications from Horde.org contained a backdoor that allowed attackers to remotely execute malicious PHP code on systems that ran the programs. Members of the Horde Project warned

PHOTO Over the years, I've tried every shade of desktop — from the ridiculously complex to the overly simple, from the barely usable to the extremely useful. Recently, the push seems towards touchscreen technology, with little success. Nevertheless, some

Billie Holiday: About the Singer - From PBS: Considered by many to be the greatest jazz vocalist of all time, Billie Holiday lived a tempestuous and difficult life. Her singing expressed an in... African Fashion: The Ubuntu Way - The term Ubuntu has come

Look above the screen of a laptop or netbook, and there's a good chance you'll find a pinhole that hides a camera. If you're anything like us, you haven't used this camera since last Christmas, when you tried to use it to connect to your family in Austra

Milestone 1 of the OpenSUSE 12.2 is available for download with minor changes like in Mozilla Firefox and major changes is that the KDE 4.8 is used and also new artwork is there. Kim Leyendecker announced the milestone 1 release of OpenSUSE 12.2 version.

#!/bin/bash # Setup filename for the screenshot myfile=$(date +%Y%m%d%S).png #Setup paths to dropbox & full url to new screenshot dropboxwebpath='http://dl.dropbox.com/u/422013/temp/' # PUT YOUR DROPBOX USERID HERE dropboxfileurl=$dropboxwebpath$myfile #

****************************************************************************** UPDATE on 02/14/2012 ****************************************************************************** New upstream release. – add USB redirection support, see Hans comments in t

This is a "i-wanna-play-games-on-Ubuntu-what-can-i-do-?" I love playing games, and since i am a hardcore ubuntu user, i'm gonna try to explain to you how to play your favourite games on this awesome operative system. I'm gonna post tutorials, how-t

I think removing the plus is a terrible idea, it makes it harder to realize that 'that' is a button, its counter-intuitive and although its simplistic, its the wrong approach to simplicity. The removal of the '+' sign is like removing the 'numbers' on a

Gnome 3 has failed to win users over. Unity was so unpopular it wiped out Ubuntu’s lead on Distrowatch and made Linux Mint number one. With the dominant desktop (Gnome) and the dominant distribution (Ubuntu) both failing to set users’ hearts racing we’re

Alastair Otter is a senior journalist at MyBroadband, and focuses on software and hardware. He has a particular love for Open Source Software (OSS)... Shuttleworth continues on his mission to reshape the desktop Not content with having thrown out the “tr

In Blender 2.62, the Cycles render engine now has layers/passes, you can track objects inside videos now, have much better and faster boolean intersections and Many new UV editing too

Canonical have released Ubuntu 10.04’s final planned maintenance update, 10.04.4, paving the way for the start of Ubuntu 12.04’s Long Term Service. For fans of KDE, Kubuntu 10.04.4 has also been made available as part of this update. “For the first time,

Hi, I feel compelled to leave a message to this post. I have used Windows for nearly 20 years and continue to do so in my workplace. Only in the past few years I finally decided to replace all the pirated installations I had at home with Linux (currently

With today's updates, the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system received many new features and improvements, including the Privacy Settings, Video Lens for Unity and the HUD (Head-Up Display) system described in this article. Orig

Being in Feature Freeze, the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system received numerous updates today, including the Privacy Settings mentioned in an article earlier. Among other noticeable features, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS now has an Unity