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Category Archives: Tips & Tricks

My 10 Tips for Using GNU screen to Improve Productivity

Sunday, February 21, 2010

People have told me about GNU screen and praised all its glory for a long time, however I never really got it going until now. I guess it might be one of those tools to you grow to use, but after getting the hang of it, I wish I had made the leap much sooner. [...]

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Browsing SCP and SSH

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Now that I’ve gotten my SSH server installed and working properly, I’ve found a need for some tools to work with that secure shell. KDE again comes to my rescue, and allows me to browse my remote secure shell connection right from inside of Konqueror. This makes it a breeze to copy and paste documents [...]

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Katapult – Do away with the kmenu

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Today’s post discusses one of my new favorite apps for Ubuntu. It’s designed with KDE in mind. It’s called katapult and allows a user to quickly access their bookmarks, applications, kmenu entries, documents, etc.. by typing a couple letters that represent the intended item. I highly suggest it. You can install it by using

sudo apt-get [...]

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Watch Internet TV using Miro on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Friday, August 24, 2007

A great application to watch Internet TV, Miro, has provided the Ubuntu community with instructions on how to install Miro in Feisty Fawn. I’ve used the software for a while now, since it was previously called DemocracyTV Player. It requires a lot of resources to use, but the output is excellent. The best part is [...]

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How to install a DEB in Kubuntu

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Having chosen to dedicate myself to Kubuntu, I needed a proper way of installing Debian packages. These files can be found across the .net as ending with a .DEB extension.
 KDE, Kubuntu, and Konqueror make this process easy. Simply right click on the downloaded file and then select Package Manager -> Install Package.

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Install Konqueror and Get a Better File Manager

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Install Konqueror in Ubuntu and you’ll get an arguably better file manager. You can easily install it from the command line using:
sudo apt-get install konqueror
If you find a need for a tabbed file manager, Konqueror steps up to the plate.

It also scores a double with the integrated web browser. While the browser’s not [...]

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The Greatest Keyboard Ever – Adesso Tru-Form™ Pro – Contoured Ergonomic Keyboard with Built-In Touchpad and Hot Keys (black)

Monday, June 4, 2007

Allow me to tell you about one of the best hardware investments I recently made. It’s the Adesso Tru-Form™ Pro – Contoured Ergonomic Keyboard with Built-In Touchpad and Hot Keys (black). I originally got this for my laptop, which is still running Windows XP. I’m very picky about my keyboards, and this one’s so awesome, [...]

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Set the Nice Level of an Existing Process

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Occasionally I forget to use the nicecommand. Linux is kind enough to allow us to change the nice level of a process that’s already running, by using the snice command. It’s very easy to use and much quicker than stopping and restarting the process.
Let’s say I have mpeg2enc encoding a video, and after 10 minutes, [...]

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Stacking Commands on the Shell

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Exploiting the shell’s capabilities can be fun and very helpful. Using the shell, I’ll often want to chain commands together. While you may already be familiar with using the semicolon to call commands in the order they were typed on the command line, the shell provides two “constructs” that permit some related, yet very specific [...]

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Making the Shell Play “nice”

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Being a big fan of the shell, I make it work hard for me. Often times the commands I’ll issue through the shell are greedy and eat CPU cycles like candy. Sometimes those commands might take several minutes to complete, and I want my CPU’s priority to be focused on other things (like letting me [...]

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