The Linux Shell

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Today I am going to step back a little bit and cover a subject that seems to be a pivotal make it or break it moment in most would be Linus users. For those of us who are long past the transition days between M$ and Linux, can still remember the day we [...]

January 25th, 2010 by Allen Sanford 

Free Developer Resources

That’s right, I am giving away one of my secrets! I about to tell you where to get free stock resources for your next project. I know the importance of these resources and the impact that they can have on a web designer, graphic designer, bloggers or even photographers. I am also fully aware [...]

January 4th, 2010 by Allen Sanford 

Using cron to run programs on a schedule

This guide is for the newbie more than the experienced Linux Pro, and maybe some of the users in between will also find it useful.
So you need to automate a task to run at preset intervals, well cron is what you are looking for.
cron is a Linux system process designed to execute a program/script [...]

December 20th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

Binding Multiple IP Addresses to a Single Network Interface Card (NIC)

In this tutorial I will be demonstrating how to bind multiple IP addresses to a single NIC. There are many different reasons for having multiple addresses binded to a single NIC; you could run a service under a specific IP while having another service running under a different one (for example, have HTTP on one [...]

December 12th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

Fedora 12 (Constantine) – Just Linux?

Fedora has always been one of the strongest distributions, I mean come on they are sponsored by RedHat. Once upon a time I used Fedora religiously and there was no-one anywhere which could change my mind. One day the Fedora Project people, I’ll just say there are many which know which version I refer to [...]

December 7th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

Recursive Directories/Files Only

Have you ever wanted to easily and recursively chmod, chown, or any other command and only have the command execute only on directories or files. Well I am going to show you just how to accomplish this right now.

November 22nd, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

Fedora Autologin Specified User

Here is a little trick to allow a specified user to Autologin at system boot for Fedora (Fedora 12 at the time of this writing):
I do suggest that if the system has curtial data or is in a somewhat public location (Dormroom, office, house with a lot of traffic through it ….) don’t do this.

November 20th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

Fedora T-6000U DigiPro or Aiptek Tablet

Apparent DigiPro tablets are using Aiptek hardware and you can see this by running the following two commands with the tablet plugged in, (When you run the commands without the tablet plugged in you will notice you will not find Aiptek in the list unless of coarse you have other Aiptek hardware).

November 19th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

Fedora RPM Fusion Repositories

For the sake of making a long story short, patent and copyright restrictions, complicates Fedora’s ability to distributing software to support proprietary formats such as DVD, MP3, Quicktime, Windows Media, aa well as other propietary formats. While Fedora has limitaions on including nonfree software by default meaning that proprietary media formats such as the ones [...]

November 18th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

ShopWiki Comparisons, Gift Ideas and More

OK, anybody who knows me knows that if I am going to buy something, be it a computer, new shoes, or simply a new shirt. I have a very difficult time buying it from the first store I see it at. I guess you could say I have a shopping complex, I could be called [...]

November 16th, 2009 by Allen Sanford