My quest for the best AWK tutorial has reached an end. The Texas A&M University has set up a guide, small in size, but with content of high quality, which can help someone that knows the basics of programming to get started quickly. Of course, there are many other free online high quality guides, but…
Today, while searching the web for any potential extra Epiphany plugins, I came accross a couple of blog posts, which, when combined together, they make a great review of my beloved web browser. Until today, I thought that falling upon Epiphany reviews was one of the rarest things to happen to me, so I decided…
Today I finally upgraded my main system to the latest Fedora release, Fedora Core 5, probably the best distribution on the planet at the time of writing. Actually, until now, I was using the development version of FC5 (aka Rawhide), last updated on the 25th of February, so the new features and improvements were well…
This is one of the best HOWTOs around about authoring DVDs with menus by using only Linux native software. Shiznix writes in his article: This howto is written in the attempt to help those reading to: Accomplish transferring a video media file (.avi, .mpg, .wmv, .mov, etc.) to DVD media in a format that will…
It’s been almost two days since Fedora Core 5 Test 2 was released and Madpenguin has come up with a very interesting review. Adam Doxtater writes in his article: So, what do we have to look forward to in Fedora Core 5? Well, I will say this right up front: what I’ve seen so far…
I am proud to announce that this web site is based on the latest stable version of WordPress. Go grab it from the official download page, while it’s still hot! The administration panel has been revised and, as the developers say, it contains many modifications in the code structure so that plugin writers or code…
I had made a post in the past about an awesome sed tutorial by Bruce Barnett. This is not his only tutorial though. His web site contains high quality information about awk, bash, regex, csh etc. I highly recommend it.
The original Red Hat RPM Guide, which had been released under the Open Publication Licence is no longer available under fedora.redhat.com. However, a more recent revision of this document, named the RPM Guide, is available as part of the Fedora Project Documentation and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-BY-SA).…
It is sometimes needed that you monitor the progress of data through a pipe. After searching around the net, I finally discovered a little terminal-based utility that does exactly that! It’s called Pipe Viewer or just PV. Here is some quick info on how to use this tool.
Meld is a visual diff tool. I’d say it’s one of the most useful applications I have ever used. You can compare two or three text files or directories at the same time or work with CVS and SVN directories and files. It displays the differences in a very handy and visually attractive way. Supports…