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June 24, 2009. David Versus Two Goliaths. 8212; Normand Bissonnette @ 1:21 pm. Apple will release its OS X 10.6 “Snow Loepard” in September and not long after, on October 22nd, Microsoft’s Windows 7 will be released. A week later Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” is scheduled to be unleashed. We all know that Windows 7 will be used by more people than Ubuntu and OS X but will it be a better operating system? 4 Comments ». 8230;] David Versus Two Goliaths I have chosen Ubuntu almost 3 years ago and I will keep o...

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easierbuntu: November 2008

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Making Ubuntu that bit easier. Tuesday, 25 November 2008. Handy shortcuts in the bash shell. You may have noticed that I've pushed the use of the command line (or, to give it the proper name, the. Bash includes a number of very handy shortcuts that really make a difference. Don't you hate having to type out filenames in full, such as package-0.8.1.tar.gz? Me too, but bash has an answer - autocompletion. Press tab here, and there's enough for bash to autocomplete to this:. But what if you enter this:.

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easierbuntu: October 2008

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Making Ubuntu that bit easier. Monday, 27 October 2008. Getting started with Wine. But what if you absolutely need to use a specific application? Or you have other software that you bought for Windows and would like to be able to run? Or even those games you may still have? Well, the answer is. Wine is in the Ubuntu repository, but unless you're already running the next version, Intrepid Ibex, this version may not be very up to date. It's probably better to go with the official version. Sudo wget http:/ ...

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easierbuntu: January 2009

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Making Ubuntu that bit easier. Wednesday, 14 January 2009. One of the original philosophies behind Unix is that each program should do one thing only, and do it well, and by and large most command-line applications in Ubuntu continue that tradition. By sticking to just that one task, they remain efficient and powerful. How do you do it? You use a hosepipe, and that's exactly what a pipe is in Linux and Unix. It takes the output of one command and uses it as input for another. This is a common way of maki...

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easierbuntu: May 2010

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Making Ubuntu that bit easier. Sunday, 23 May 2010. SSH - using the shell remotely. If you came to Ubuntu from a Windows background, or are otherwise familiar with Windows (let's face it, not many of us are in a position where they never use Windows at all! Telnet was the original method of connecting to a remote computer, however it has declined in popularity due to security issues. SSH has largely replaced it because it's more secure, and that's what I'm going to tell you about today. How do you use it?

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easierbuntu: March 2009

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Making Ubuntu that bit easier. Monday, 23 March 2009. If you've been following along for a while, you should have picked up a fair bit of knowledge about how to use the command line. You should be comfortable using a non-graphical text editor such as Vim or nano, installing software using apt-get or dpkg, and viewing text files using cat or less. But I strongly suspect you may not be ready to use the command line exclusively! Chat via IRC or IM? Now, I'm not dreaming of suggesting you install this in pla...

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easierbuntu: February 2009

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Making Ubuntu that bit easier. Wednesday, 4 February 2009. If you've understood pipes reasonably well, redirection should be easy to understand as well. It's a similar concept in that it involves doing something with the output of a command. Redirection allows you to send the output of a command into a text file, or send the contents of a file as input to a command. It's used in a similar fashion to pipes, and is represented by the symbol. Ls -A list.txt. Ls -A list.txt. Game over 2.py. In this case I'd ...

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easierbuntu: Managing your email with fetchmail, procmail and mutt

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Making Ubuntu that bit easier. Sunday, 11 September 2011. Managing your email with fetchmail, procmail and mutt. Let's face it, email can be a pain. Sure it's useful, but between the social network stuff, the marketing emails and other stuff, there's a lot to wade through, and that's without even counting the spam. Graphical email clients may be full of features and relatively easy to use, but after a point it becomes worthwhile considering a more powerful solution. Echo " /usr/bin/procmail" .forward.

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easierbuntu: Redirection

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Making Ubuntu that bit easier. Wednesday, 4 February 2009. If you've understood pipes reasonably well, redirection should be easy to understand as well. It's a similar concept in that it involves doing something with the output of a command. Redirection allows you to send the output of a command into a text file, or send the contents of a file as input to a command. It's used in a similar fashion to pipes, and is represented by the symbol. Ls -A list.txt. Ls -A list.txt. Game over 2.py. In this case I'd ...

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easierbuntu: September 2008

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Making Ubuntu that bit easier. Thursday, 18 September 2008. Something we haven't touched on yet is permissions in Ubuntu. The concept of permissions is highly important to how Linux works. You may want to open this image in a separate tab so you can see it better. As you can see, each set of users has a dropdown box for you to set the permissions, and Group has an additional dropdown so you can set the permissions for each group. So far, this may have seemed quite technical, but hopefully this ma...One o...