g4u (“ghost for unix”) which is a boot-floppy/CD that allows one to easily clone PC hard disks by using FTP. Useful for backups and cloning new drives .

Since dabbling with Linux, starting with RH5 in 1998, I have been digging on these past 2 years with Ubuntu/Debian/Knoppix/DSL distros. I have tried the Ubuntu distro’s for Apple (both Motorola & Intel) and recommend Zimbra as the future of mail server apps (try the open source edition for free!)

I like Linux because of the flexibility and cooperation of the communities that support it. I tolerate Microsoft because of all of the companies that use it and distribute it with their new hardware. I setup multi-booting because I get to choose what flavor I need, and have started getting deeper into VMWare to test all this cool stuff out there!

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2- press double tab to bring a list of all files & directories that start with the pattern you wrote.

example:
if you currently on /usr/bin
then you issues:

$ ls -altr pa <--press tab here
pack pagesize panel-test-applets pargs passwd patch pax
page pal2rgb pango-querymodules passmgmt paste pathchk
$ ls -altr pas <--press tab after additional s
passmgmt passwd paste
$ ls -altr pass <--press tab after additional s
passmgmt passwd
$ ls -altr passwd
-r-sr-sr-x 1 root sys 27228 Aug 16 2007 passwd

Example 2:

$ls -altr wo $ls -altr word-list-compress <-- completed automatically

Have a nice time scripti[tab] (scripting)

Amr

To do this, just head to System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts from the main menu. Now look for “Run a terminal” and click on it, then press the key combination you want to use as a shortcut. I personally use Ctrl+Alt+x.

Hope you find it useful :)

Regards,
Yaser

Therefor here 2 tips for everyone.

01. undo Firefox closed tab.

Shift+ctrl+t

02. How to install firefox
Download the latest source.
$ su

# mv firefox* /usr/local/bin/
# cd /usr/local/bin/
# tar -zxvf firefox*

Log out root with the keys: Ctrl+D
Type “kmenuedit”/”alacarte” or the “gnome-menu-editor” )

- Make a new menu entry, call it Firefox and fill in as command: /usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox

then save

I moved to linux because of many reasons,

1) I can know the indepth working of an OS and interaction with OS applications. I can bring more to Linux that to the so-called user-friendly Windows.
2) With the openly available source code, I can even make the best coding and required ammaendments to meet my requirements.
3) Giving something to the world along with the work from the scratch is what I believe and practice most.
Hurray to the OSS people. Let us strive for a free world. Open up your mind and soul for the sole cause of helping human kind.

Thanks
Dody

Thanks,
Sathish

#shopt -s cdspell

# cd /vr/lok/
/var/log/
#[root@ss log]#pwd
/var/log
#

badblocks -o filename.log /dev/hdax – for IDE disks

badblocks -o filename.log /dev/sdax – for SCSI disks ( X – 1,2,3..)

My Tip
1. history -c clears the history of commands.
2. To run a previous command starting as ssh type !ssh and hit return
2. Using Thunderbird. If you got a mail containing and image from someone and want to insert that image to your mail that you are composing, do as follows.
* Open the mail received.
* Right click on the image and click copy “image location”
* Go to the composing mail and using menu commands select “Insert->Image”.
* It will ask for “Image Location”. Paste the location copied.
* Give some Alternage Text if you want.
* Press ok.
Thats it.
This way you can copy an image from a mail to the compose mail without saving in the local disk.

Cheers,
Nilufer

I use it now mostly because XP is boring, Vista holds no interest for me (I shouldn’t need to upgrade my machine to run an OS that costs $300+), and Linux is so much fun!

history

and re-launch a command using:

!#

where # is the command number specifies in the history list.

I love linux!
Keep it simple, that’s the trick!!!