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Website traffic getting better and mega engineering of the future.

By Admin On February 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I have just found a screen shot of the Awstats traffic information for my old bejiitaswrath.com domain and I was getting more traffic to my website at the height of my websites popularity but with my current website the amount of unique visitors is higher, I am getting over 7500 unique visitors with my current [...]

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Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop. A preview of this new Mint interface.

By Admin On February 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This is a look at the 1.2 release of the Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop. The desktop may be configured as with Gnome Shell to look like the familiar Gnome 2 layout.

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VLC 2.0.0 TwoFlower released for Ubuntu 12.04.

By Admin On February 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The 2.0.0 release of the VLC media player has been released for Ubuntu 12.04. I updated my Ubuntu 12.04 installation and there it was. So the final release of Ubuntu 12.04 will include this media player in the repositories. The VLC media player is available for Linux and Windows and includes its own internal [...]

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Customising Linux and Computing history.

By Admin On February 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The Linux distributions that are in common use all over the world have many advantages over the closed source operating systems such as Windows and Macintosh operating systems, the freedom to customize the distribution and create your own version of the distribution is the key strength of Linux. The Ubuntu distribution includes a tool named [...]

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Useful KDE 4.8.0 tips. How to make KDE 4.8 look like KDE 3.4.

By Admin On February 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Useful KDE 4.8.0 tips. Useful tricks to make working with KDE easier.

To open a small run prompt to open any program, just press the Windows key and “r”. This will open a prompt at the top of the screen allowing you to type a command such as ‘xterm’ and the requested application will be [...]

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Securing your WordPress installation with Website Defender.

By Admin On February 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

http://www.websitedefender.com/announcements/websitedefender-wordpress-security-plugin-news/scan-blog-wordpress-security-scan/. Securing your WordPress installation is vital, the PHP installation as well as the MySQL database need to be protected. The Website Defender website offers a free service that will scan your website and offer suggestions on how to secure your WordPress installation and any other software that you have installed such as PHPBB. [...]

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Tron Legacy UNIX commands revisited.

By Admin On February 18, 2012 · 1 Comment

http://www.securitronlinux.com/uncategorized/tron-legacy-unix-operating-system/. As seen in this posting above, the Tron Legacy movie used computers with a variant of the Solaris UNIX operating system. The ps -ef command works in the FreeBSD UNIX distribution, you need to mount procfs with this command: mount -t procfs proc /proc this will enable the proc file-system. The login -n [...]

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Using the dircolors command in your ~/.bashrc.

By Admin On February 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Using the dircolors command in your ~/.bashrc. The dircolors command as used in your ~/.bashrc will set the colours of the various files and directories that are shown with the ls(1) command. Use the command dircolors –print-database to display a list of the filetypes and what colour codes will be used for each one.

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Linux needs more freedom of choice.

By Admin On February 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The Linux distributions that are released these days do not give you any choice in desktop environments compared to the old SUSE Linux distribution that came on a DVD image with a heap of differing desktop environments to use whenever you desired. Sure, the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and its child Ubuntu supply a lot of [...]

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Linux commands that prove useful for your day to day workflow.

By Admin On February 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The UNIX tail command is very useful for viewing the last number of lines of a logfile.

As in this example. Showing the last 10 lines in the file /var/log/syslog.

|{~}-{Thu Feb 16 21:36:44} -{john@deep-thought } $ tail -n 10 /var/log/syslog Feb 16 21:31:01 deep-thought cron[1480]: (*system*anacron) WRONG FILE OWNER (/etc/cron.d/anacron) Feb 16 21:31:29 deep-thought [...]

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