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BluesShak: January 2010
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Enter your email address:. Ex-air traffic controller, ex-pool room owner, ex-salesman, ex-railroad switchman, ex-baggage handler. A gentleman, a scholar, and a fine judge of peanut butter! View my complete profile. More Highly Recommended Applications. There was an error in this gadget. Amazon Contextual Product Ads. Sunday, January 31, 2010. 160; Here is a rather lengthy article giving 20 reasons to use Linux. 160; Linux is available in many different distributions. Linux Mint. Pc and web tips. If you'...
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Find and Replace with Sed
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All Things Linux Forum. FIND AND REPLACE with SED. Let us start off simple:. Imagine you have a large file ( txt, php, html, anything ) and you want to replace all the words "ugly" with "beautiful" because you just met your old friend Sue again and she/he is coming over for a visit. This is the command:. Sed -i 's/ugly/beautiful/g' /home/bruno/old-friends/sue.txt. Well, that command speaks for itself " sed. In place ( on the spot ) and replaces the word " ugly. Now, here comes the real magic:. I changed ...
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Great Linux Links
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All Things Linux Forum. From Windows to Linux:. Linux Tips For Windows People. Windows / Linux equivalents:. The table of equivalents. ALL important Linux Links:. Loads of Linux Links. Eitin Research and Linux Links. Arcturus Helpful Linux Links. Linux Command Line Cheat Sheets. Info on Major distros. Cheap CDs ( for those on dial-up ). A large list of addresses ). ASUS Eee PC Website. The Linux Mirror Project. Winmodems are not modems. Red Hat HW Database. Forum topic with additional links. This page of...
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Making a Boot Floppy
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All Things Linux Forum. MAKING a BOOT FLOPPY. If the GUI-tool for making a boot-floppy fails, there is a simple ( command line ) way to make one, the tools are a bit different depending on the distro you use:. No need to wipe/format the floppy before you start, it will simply be overwritten anyway ). Pre kernel 2.6! Post kernel 2.6 see Boot/Rescue CD. Will show you the kernel-version: probably 2.4.21-0.13mdk ). Mkbootdisk - device /dev/fd0 2.4.21-0.13mdk. Sbin/mkbootdisk - device /dev/fd0 kernel version.
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ISOs and md5sum
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All Things Linux Forum. ISO´s and MD5SUM ( checksum ). For those of you that never came near to linux, here is a description how to download your first Linux ISO, and check its integrety. After downloading you can check the integrity of the ISO-file with a checksum, the md5sum. The mirror will offer you a separate text file to download with a 128 bit string of characters. This string has to be exactly the same as the one you get when you do:. The string you get typically looks like:. May 7 2003 ( Revised...
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Boot Rescue CD
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All Things Linux Forum. Replacement for the boot floppy ). Because some new computers don´t have a floppy-drive anymore, new versions of “mkrescue” have the option to make a bootable rescue.iso you can burn to CD and use instead of a boot floppy. Making a boot-CD is mainly important for the new Mandrake 9.2 that needs a 1722kB floppy to make a boot-floppy, and rumors are spreading that over-sized floppies are not very stable. Here is how to make a boot CD for your Mandrake 9.2 ( default kernel ):. NOTE: ...
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The Reset Button
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All Things Linux Forum. I know most computers have a reset button, used to be real handy back in the DOS days, Windows does not really like the reset-button but can live with it and recover most of the time fairly good. Sometimes it is the only way out for Windows users to escape a freeze of their computer. It is my duty to warn you though: In Linux you better put a nice sticker or case badge over that button. Don´t ever use the reset-button in Linux! This is really the only way to do it, so NEVER.
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SHA-1 Checksums
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All Things Linux Forum. SHA-1 is the successor of MD5 ( Read about MD5 here. And is a tool to check the integrity of your downloads. The SHA-1 algorithm is the brainchild of the US-based National Security Agency (NSA). Basically it works the same as the MD5, a SHA-1 file is available on the FTP server where you downloaded your ISOs and when opening it you will see a string of numbers that you compare to the output of the command:. The string you get from this command typically looks like:.
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The Tree
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All Things Linux Forum. A simplified overview of the file system, with only the most important subdirectories and an absolute minimal description:. Most programs for the user with normal user permissions ). Where you can add extra kernels for multi booting ). Contains all the special files (nodes) used to access hardware and other device drivers ). Most of the config files ). Where things end up after a "scandisk" due to an improper shutdown ). Here opens "home" icon, konqueror and the console ).
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Windows Tools: Gparted
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All Things Linux Forum. Sizing an NTFS Partition ). Julia ( aka teacher ) sent us the following Tip:. If you have an NTFS partition that is being a little troublesome, you might need a program designed to boot from disk that allows you total control over your hard drive to resize or partition your NTFS and other partitions. One tool for partitioning a NTFS partition before installing your program is the Gnu Parted Project Gparted. There are two ways to select your drive and partition it. First click ...