Newsletter
The GoblinX weekly newsletter reference page. Newsletter index of the latest issues published and other tutors links.
GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 208 (07/12/2009) (Index)
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(Correcting Mount Points without FSTAB) “…Several GNU/Linux distributions already abandoned the famous FSTAB file and they started to use other application to manager media and storage devices using Hal (The HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer) rules and the /media directory. These distributions often adopt the default rules provided by Hal and these rulessometimes can not be like you desire specially if you have several partitions…”
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Limit the CPU usage of a certain application in Linux
Using Bash History More Efficiently
Linux Tips: Handy ways to grep
Useful Tricks With Screen
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 207 (07/05/2009) (Index)
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(Correcting Mount Points without FSTAB) “…Several GNU/Linux distributions already abandoned the famous FSTAB file and they started to use other application to manager media and storage devices using Hal (The HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer) rules and the /media directory. These distributions often adopt the default rules provided by Hal and these rulessometimes can not be like you desire specially if you have several partitions…”
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Sending Email Alerts Through Cron
Get to know Linux: ps command
How to write a KWin effect
Hide files in an image
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 206 (06/28/2009) (Index)
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(Kernel and Messages Displayed or Logged) “…During the boot process the system displays several kernel debug messages, some important and some not, and as everyone is a different person with different tastes, also the system can be different in the way to threat these debug messages, the system can display everything or almost nothing…..”
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Resize Images in Linux with ImageMagick
Create Text Images with ImageMagick
Give users specific access with sudo
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 205 (06/21/2009) (Index)
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(Kernel and Messages Displayed or Logged) “…During the boot process the system displays several kernel debug messages, some important and some not, and as everyone is a different person with different tastes, also the system can be different in the way to threat these debug messages, the system can display everything or almost nothing…..”
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How to disable loading of unnecessary kernel modules
Tip of the Day: Rip DVDs With Thoggen
GTalk Settings In Pidgin
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 204 (06/14/2009) (Index)
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(Alsa Utilities) “…The ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound architecture) provides audio and midi functionality to the Linux operating system and it includes some packages, one of them is the alsa-utils. The ALSA utils includes command line audio utilities for use with ALSA, and those utilities are very usefull and important to enable sound on your system….”
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UNIX / Linux Dump Command Exclude Directories / Files
Advanced Firefox Configuration
Bash Tips for Power Users
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 203 (06/07/2009) (Index)
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(Alsa Utilities) “…The ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound architecture) provides audio and midi functionality to the Linux operating system and it includes some packages, one of them is the alsa-utils. The ALSA utils includes command line audio utilities for use with ALSA, and those utilities are very usefull and important to enable sound on your system….”
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Recover Deleted Linux Files With lsof
Adding Color to Bash List Command
Understanding Symbolic Links
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 202 (05/31/2009) (Index)
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(Running Adobe AIR on GoblinX) “…First I visited the Adobe website and download the Adobe Air installer AdobeAIRInstaller.bin but I could not installed it because the installer showed a message saying it only works with RPM and DEB based distribution. GoblinX is totally compatible with RPM packages but the installer must have inside itself some settings not allowing the install process to proceed. After some search in the internet I found a tip from a Gentoo’s user…”
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Encrypting and decrypting files from command line with gpg
Effective bash shorthand
Delimiters in Bash
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 201 (05/24/2009) (Index)
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(Alltray, Dock Everything) “…When we need to dock an application into the system tray we can use a small application called Alltray. From Alltray website: With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the “close” button will minimize back to system tray. It works well with Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox and WindowMaker…”
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Disable extension install delay counter in Firefox
How to open a second X session in Linux
Linux Limit CPU Usage Per Process
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 200 (05/17/2009) (Index)
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(MPlayer and Video Output) “…There are dozen of available video output drivers and video output options, it will take at least several pages to explain everything about them, but as you can always read more complete manuals and also the MPlayer man pages, the current minitutor is only shows some important and interesting video output you can use to play around your favorite movies and files….”
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MBR (Master Boot Record) backup & restore
Using the Bash complete Command
Browsing a FTP server in Nautilus
Quit bash without saving history
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 199 (05/10/2009) (Index)
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(Di (Disk Information) Utility) “All operating system include small disk information utilities that display harddisk usage information besides the graphical interfaces. Df is the well known utility for GNU/Linux distribution however Di displays everything and more that df command does. It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you desire/prefer/are used to. It is designed to be portable across many platforms…”
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Open a file from the command line using its default application
To users that miss xorg.conf and complain about it
8 Beautiful Conky Desktop Monitor Setup
Five simple recipes for grep
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 198 (05/03/2009) (Index)
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(Xbindkeys, Launch Shell Commands with your Keyboard) “The Xbindkeys is a program that allows you to launch shell commands with your keyboard or your mouse under X Window. It links commands to keys or mouse buttons, using a configuration file. It’s independant of the window manager and can capture all keyboard keys (ex: Power, Wake…)…”
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How to securely clean up data on a hard disk on Linux
Quick Tip: Clear Out GNOME Tracker Indexes
Close shell keeping all subprocess running
How to set the date in Linux
Finding the Time
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 197 (04/26/2009) (Index)
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(Add Actions to Thunar Filemanager) “Thunar is a fast and easy to use file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar includes the User Customizable Actions (thunar-uca). This plugin allows users to extend the context menus of the file manager (and xfdesktop) with custom actions that run external programs or scripts. These actions are related to extensions and can be created using the Custom Actions dialog which is available from the Edit menu as Configure custom actions….”
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Change the Speed of Mousewheel Scrolling in Firefox
Changing Priority on Linux Processes
Find the longest line in a file
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 196 (04/19/2009) (Index)
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(Add Actions to Thunar Filemanager) “Thunar is a fast and easy to use file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar includes the User Customizable Actions (thunar-uca). This plugin allows users to extend the context menus of the file manager (and xfdesktop) with custom actions that run external programs or scripts. These actions are related to extensions and can be created using the Custom Actions dialog which is available from the Edit menu as Configure custom actions….”
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Fine tune your Linux command line History
Scheduling Commands with crontab
Concatenate pairs of lines
Bash tips for power users
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 195 (04/12/2009) (Index)
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(Correcting Mount Points without FSTAB) “Several GNU/Linux distributions already abandoned the famous FSTAB file and they started to use other application to manager media and storage devices using Hal (The HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer) rules and the /media directory. These distributions often adopt the default rules provided by Hal and these rulessometimes can not be like you desire specially if you have several partitions…”
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Handle Compressed and Uncompressed Files Uniformly
Writing simple python setup commands
3D Chuck. The Gimp script way
Clean a string for a filename
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 194 (04/05/2009) (Index)
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(Alltray, Dock Everything) “When we need to dock an application into the system tray we can use a small application called Alltray…..”
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Back up Your Gnome Desktop and all Settings in Gnome
Use a Different Color for the Root Shell Prompt
How to squeeze blank lines using cat or less
Linux Hotplug a CPU
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 193 (03/29/2009) (Index)
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(Running Adobe AIR on GoblinX) “…First I visited the Adobe website and download the Adobe Air installer AdobeAIRInstaller.bin but I could not installed it because the installer showed a message saying it only works with RPM and DEB based distribution. GoblinX is totally compatible with RPM packages but the installer must have inside itself some settings not allowing the install process to proceed. After some search in the internet I found a tip from a Gentoo’s user….”
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A handful of Firefox tweaks that will double your browser speed
How to write an interactive shell script
Using Named Pipes (FIFOs) with Bash
Making a Screencast in Linux !!
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 192 (03/22/2009) (Index)
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(Find The Package That Contains a File) “…This Mini Tutor is based on an interesting tip from Dicas-L, a brazilian webpage dedicated to Linux tips, and it is about find which package contains a file…”
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Wicd error: cannot connect to dbus
Linux Printing Tips
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 191 (03/15/2009) (Index)
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(Di (Disk Information) Utility) “… Df is the well known utility for GNU/Linux distribution however Di displays everything and more that df command does. It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you desire/prefer/are used to. It is designed to be portable across many platforms …”
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10 Most important linux networking commands
Modify your application to use XDG folders
Bash Shell Temporarily Disable an Alias
Civilization IV on Linux with Wine 1.1.16
Remove columns from text
Last and History
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 190 (03/08/2009) (Index)
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(Running Adobe AIR on GoblinX) “…During last week I tried to install Adobe AIR on GoblinX and I only succeed after I found the below minitutor prepared for a Gentoo user….”
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Save time with Gedit snippets
Transparent GTK Themes
Remove duplicate files
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 189 (03/01/2009) (Index)
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(Find The Package That Contains a File) “…This Mini Tutor is based on an interesting tip from Dicas-L, a brazilian webpage dedicated to Linux tips, and it is about find which package contains a file…”
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Linux tips every geek should know
Disable GNOME Automounting
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 188 (02/22/2009) (Index)
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(The Magic of Xargs) “…Let’s imagine you wish to gzip all .png files inside /usr/share/pixmaps, you can use only this line: ‘ls /usr/share/pixmaps | grep png | xargs gzip -f’….”
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Connecting to Windows servers from GNU/Linux using pyNeighborhood
Compare two files in Linux and find the differences
25 Tutorials To Get You Started With Blender
Automate Tasks With Cron
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 187 (02/15/2009) (Index)
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(Mpg321, MP3 Player) “…Mpg321 is a free command-line mp3 player, which uses the mad audio decoding library. Mpg321 is written to be a drop-in replacement for the non-free mpg123 player. some functions remain unimplemented, but mpg321 should function as a basci drop-in replacement for mpg123 front-ends such as gmpeg, and those programs which use mpg123 to decode mp3 files( like gtoaster, and other CD-recording software)….”
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Monitor Your Linux System Stats with Conky
Screencasting in Linux!
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 186 (02/08/2009) (Index)
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(Protected Persistent Changes) “…The GoblinX distributions save all changes made during the session and these changes will be saved to RAM memory only if you boot it from cdroms and dvds. If you boot it from a USB drive or any other writable media, it will detect it. On the USB you’ll have directories ‘boot’ and ’goblinx’. During boot time ’goblinx/changes’ directory will be created and all changes will be saved there…”
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How to set wallpaper in Fluxbox with Nitrogen
10 Tips for Writing Efficient Bash Scripts
Try out the Metacity compositor
Scripting Conky
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 185 (02/01/2009) (Index)
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(Compile Application From Source Using Build Script) “…The art of compiling applications from source code demands a knowledge most novice users do not have and, often, they find bad instructions while searching the Internet. The common mistake is in the three main commands used for compiling applications, as you have already read in several places: ‘.configure’, ‘make’ and ‘make install’; even though they are necessary you may not start directly using them….”
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Inkscape Tutorial - Raised Lettering Effect
Full screen mode with toolbars in Opera
Check a bash script without executing
Get real names of current users
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 184 (01/25/2009) (Index)
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(Xfce 4.6 beta Keyboard Shortcuts) “…Sometimes Xfce shortcuts can not work well together with an application and you must know how to disable or change them…”
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Moving large directories
Print part of a file
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 183 (01/18/2009) (Index)
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(Correcting Mount Points without FSTAB) “…Several GNU/Linux distributions already abandoned the famous FSTAB file and they started to use other application to manager media and storage devices using Hal (The HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer) rules and the /media directory. These distributions often adopt the default rules provided by Hal and these rulessometimes can not be like you desire specially if you have several partitions….”
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How to tweak Nautilus to display size of files under their name
HowTo: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky
Linux: Convert a PDF File To an Image
Launchy… for Linux
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 182 (01/11/2009) (Index)
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(The Rootcopy Features) “…The rootcopy is an amazing feature presented in all livecds build by using linuxlive scripts. These livecds contain a directory named as /rootcopy. The content of this directory is copied to root filesystem each time you boot the livecd, preserving all directories…”
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Linux tip: How to take a screenshot without X (GUI), just from console
Linux Command Line For Beginners: Finding Help Documents
Add Custom Functionality To Nautilus [Linux]
Turn off Spatial Mode in Nautilus
Cool Bash Tips
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 181 (01/04/2009) (Index)
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(Howto Join Avi (Video) Files) “…This minitutor I wrote when I was trying join some avi files into a single one. I found some help in the internet and here I’m explaining howto do the job….”
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Using .htaccess for password protecting web directory
How to ‘Watch’ Over Your Linux System Automatically
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 180 (12/28/2008) (Index)
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(Alltray, Dock Everything) “…With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the “close” button will minimize back to system tray. It works well with Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox and WindowMaker…”
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Configuring Bash Configuration Files in Linux
Patterns and string processing in shell scripts
Five useful command one liners
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 179 (12/21/2008) (Index)
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(Nautilus as Fluxbox’s Volume Manager) “…Nautilus can be the volume manager of every windowmanagers even without being a desktop manager. This particularity helps anyone using light windowmanagers such as Fluxbox to have a volume manager for automounting inserted medias and autorun applications. ….”
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Five Firefox Shortcuts You Need to Learn Right Now
Configuring Bash Configuration Files in Linux
Programming Multimedia Keyboards
Converting JPG Files to PDF
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 178 (12/14/2008) (Index)
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(Nautilus and Light Windowmanagers) “…Running Nautilus (Gnome Content Manager) or other application that needs D-Bus inside light windowmanagers like Fluxbox can become a problem. D-Bus supplies both a system daemon (for events such as “new hardware device added” or “printer queue changed”) and a per user login session daemon (for general IPC needs among user applications)…..”
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Add Sudo to Your Last Bash Command With “!!” Syntax
Storing Files/Directories In Memory With tmpfs
tsort: UNIX / Linux Perform Topological Sort
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 177 (12/07/2008) (Index)
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(Compile Application From Source Using Build Script) “…The art of compiling applications from source code demands a knowledge most novice users do not have and, often, they find bad instructions while searching the Internet. The common mistake is in the three main commands used for compiling applications, as you have already read in several places: ‘.configure’, ‘make’ and ‘make install’; even though they are necessary you may not start directly using them. The sequence of download and uncompress the source code package, start a console, go inside the source uncompressed folder and use the three commands is not the best way to start your task….”
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Tar Extract a Single File(s) From a Large Tarball
Search For Movies With Totem
Backup your Firefox Passwords
3 ways to keep safe your files
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 176 (11/30/2008) (Index)
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(Add Actions to Thunar Filemanager) “…Thunar includes the User Customizable Actions (thunar-uca). This plugin allows users to extend the context menus of the file manager (and xfdesktop) with custom actions that run external programs or scripts…”
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Use the date Command to Measure Elapsed Time
Triple your audio volume in MPlayer
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 175 (11/23/2008) (Index)
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(Di (Disk Information) Utility) “…Df is the well known utility for GNU/Linux distribution however Di displays everything and more that df command does. It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you desire/prefer/are used to. It is designed to be portable across many platforms…..”
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Doing a diff without touching the command line
Customizing Firefox for Netbooks
Sdparm: a utility for SCSI device
Make your BIOS love security
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 174 (11/16/2008) (Index)
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(Fbsetbg, Set a Background/Wallpaper) “…Fluxbox package includes a small application called Fbsetbg which can be use to set a background and/or random backgrounds on your desktop….”
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Getting CPU Information From Various Flavours Of Linux And Unix
FAQ: How to scrollback in GNU SCREEN?
List the most recent files in a directory
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 173 (11/09/2008) (Index)
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(Protected Persistent Changes) “…Even though the above information is well known, there is also another great possibility to use with the persistent changes feature: protected changes…”
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More Quick Ways To Find CPU Bottlenecks On Linux
Speed Up Linux Hard Drives by Disabling Atime
Automating with Cron - Using the Cron Folders
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GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 172 (11/02/2008) (Index)
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-> Development & Update
-> Minitutor
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How To Easily Add A Custom Search Engine To Your Firefox Search Bar
Free Memory by dropping caches
More tricks with BashDiff
