By default, when we talk about a shell in Linux, most people think of Bash. It is true that it is the most wide spread and arguably one of the simplest shell to begin with, but there are also plenty of other shells out there yearning for your attention. Today, we shall go through another … Read more
In the last article, we learned how Markdown can quickly help you produce clean HTML code to be used in a website or blog. But what if you also want to produce an ebook using the same content as you have on the web? While the Markdown tool set is targeted at creating web content, … Read more
If you saw our post on how to run old DOS games from your youth on Linux, and you happened to be an Atari brat while you were growing up, then you’re not left out in the cold. With the right software, you can relieve your 8-bit glory days on your Linux machine. To play … Read more
Last time, we show you how to tweet from the command line. But if you are more of a Facebook person and that you also want to look cool with the console, you might wonder if the same solution exists for you. The answer is yes! fbcmd is a little PHP software that allows you … Read more
Being a wallpaper fan, I love to collect beautiful wallpapers and rotate them on a regular basis on my desktop. Being a Ubuntu user, I have also tested several wallpaper changing apps for Ubuntu. After a while, you will discover that most of them are similar, do their job (changing the wallpaper) well and don’t … Read more
For a lot of geeks, the Texas Instrument Scientific Calculator was their best friends during classes in high school. Not so long ago, I remember programming a Space Invader game in TI-Basic during a Maths lesson. But as a downside to growing up: a lot of us had to leave our precious TI at the … Read more
Linux do crash. It is not so frequent, but it happens. You know what to do when an application refuses to obey, but if everything fails, the last solution is using the supreme power on Linux: the magic SysRq key. By using this key with a combination of “Alt” and another letter, you will be … Read more
Linux (or Ubuntu, in particular) comes with support for many file systems. If you plug in your USB drive, chances are your Linux system will recognize it immediately and mount it in your file manager. However, if your external hard disk is in the exFAT format, your system won’t be able to detect it since … Read more
The most commonly used command in Ubuntu is apt-get. You can use it to install software, update the repository and upgrade the software. Without a doubt, “Apt-get” is a pretty handy tool and is very useful and good for what it supposed to do, but “good” can always be enhanced into “better” and this can … Read more
We like to think that there is a Linux distribution for everything. There is a distribution for browsing the web, one for playing video games, one for privacy, and there is one for security – Qubes OS. Based on the virtualization software Xen, Qubes OS composed of several light-weight virtual machines, each is isolated from … Read more