Another very nice bash shell prompt, this shows how to have custom characters in a prompt.
Some nice bash shell prompts that might be very useful for you.
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A very interesting bash shell trick. Edit the last command in the history.
How to use the !! operator to perform a very nice bash shell trick. This is how to edit the last command in the history and edit a spelling mistake.
The history of computers.
The history of computers goes back to ancient Greece, with the Ankithera machine that was an Astronomical calculator to compute the positions of the planets. More recently, Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) of France invented the computing machine to perform various calculations which were followed by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716) of Germany and … Read more
Get your most popular shell commands with a simple one-liner.
Get your most popular shell commands with a simple one-liner, this is a very interesting Linux hack, good to see what you are using the terminal for.
How to go back in directory history with the bash command and other tricks.
To undo the cd command if you typed it by accident, enter this command. ~$ cd -~$ cd – This will take you back in the directory history. A very useful trick. Typing this is another good trick. ~$ cd –~$ cd — This seems to take the user back two steps. Another useful way … Read more
Add BASH styled line editing and persistent history to the CMD window.
This useful utility: http://mridgers.github.io/clink/. Will allow persistent history and line editing in the Windows 10 CMD window. This makes the CMD session much more enjoyable to use. Press Alt-H in the CMD window to get help that shows the keyboard shortcuts for this addon. Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10130] (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. … Read more
Hard drive technology from the early days to the latest super capacity drives.
The hard disk drive has come a long way since the first one I used, a 10 megabyte capacity beast. In 1979, you would have paid US$5,350,00 for an external hard drive housing that could store 10 megabytes of data. That would have been a luxury item back then. Another thing that I remember was … Read more
Why Linux uses .dotfiles for hidden filenames.
The original UNIX programmers created a bug in the early UNIX code 40 years ago. This code had the side effect of making files starting with a dot hidden to the normal ls command. This was adopted as a ‘feature’. Nowadays, the dotfile is the standard way of hiding configuration files in the home directories … Read more
How the personal computer has evolved through the ages. How things have changed since the early days.
The personal computer has changed so much since the early days of the computer. The earliest true computer, the ENIAC was a massive machine that took up a warehouse. This massive machine used vacuum tubes to perform calculations instead of the modern silicon chips that the computers of today use. There were many computers and … Read more
Nostalgic look at computer data storage we used in the old days of computing.
This posting will be looking at the various methods used to store our data in the old days of computing. Firstly the 8 inch floppy disk. The disk was pretty big, but the actual drives were extremely heavy, they were quite a handful. The 5 1/2” disk was better, you would insert the disk in … Read more
Customising Linux and Computing history.
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 … Read more
The evolution of the KDE Linux desktop. From 1.0 to 4.8.0.
The KDE desktop has come a long way since the early KDE 2.0 desktop I was using on my old Pentium II Dell Optiplex running Debian 3.0. Nowadays the KDE desktop has changed quite a bit. I do not like the fact that the awesome KDE World Clock application that was once a separate application … Read more
20 years of Linux, interview with Linus Torvalds.
There is a story over on Slashdot about the 20 year anniversary of the Linux operating system. Linux has come a long way in the 20 year history and now it is a very robust and reliable operating system. Since Linus Torvalds needed a free version of the proprietary UNIX operating system that existed at … Read more
20 years of Linux. It has been a good ride.
http://www.walkernews.net/2007/06/22/download-official-redhat-linux-iso-image/. The link above is to the Redhat 6.2 Linux distribution, the first version of Linux I used. It ran very well on a Celeron 600 with 64MB of RAM and integrated graphics. Linux has come so far since it was first released, the desktop has gotten even easier to use and with the release … Read more