What is described in the following may be illegal where you live. Where I live, the law permits making a small number of copies of the contents of legally acquired media for personal use as long as this does not involve circumventing copy protection. Strangely enough, “personal use” includes giving a copy to close relatives. And “small number” certainly is well under double-digits, but to my knowledge the courts have not yet made it explicit. You didn’t expect the legislators - politicians! - to do that in the course of creating the legislation, did you?
How To Look Like A UNIX Guru
October 8, 2006 — BlackFlagThis lecture takes you through the basic commands and then shows you how to combine them in simple patterns or idioms to provide sophisticated functionality like histogramming. This lecture assumes you know what a shell is and that you have some basic familiarity with UNIX.
OpenVOX
October 5, 2006 — BlackFlagThe OpenBSD 3.0 - 4.0 songs are available on an Audio CD celebrating 10 years of OpenBSD releases. An extra track by the artist Ty Semaka (who really has “had Puffy on his mind”) is included which details the process of making the art and music each release.
List of Debian Based Linux Distributions and Live Cd’s
October 5, 2006 — BlackFlagMost of the people want to know the list of debian based linux distributions and live cd’s list and finally here it is.
How to: Install .rpm Files in Debian and Ubuntu
October 2, 2006 — BlackFlagSome time you might find some applications are having only .rpm files but you want a .deb package for your debian,Ubuntu and other debian derived ditributions.If you can’t find .deb debian package in any of the debian, ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can use the alien package converter to install the .rpm file.
Working With Filenames on the Unix Command Line
October 2, 2006 — BlackFlagHaving to retype long filenames at the Unix command line gets old, fast. Everyone knows how to scroll thru history with arrow keys, but that only helps you re-run past commands. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could type a filename once, then refer back to it with only 2 keystrokes? Your shell can already do this…
The Unix Acronym List: Unix Commands
October 2, 2006 — BlackFlagA list of unix commands followed by their appropriate meanings. For instance, the command bash is an acronym for “Bourne again shell”.
Pixel: The Potential Photoshop Killer for Linux
September 30, 2006 — BlackFlagAccording to the results of a survey conducted early this year by Novell, Adobe Photoshop tops users’ lists as the most critical application not available on Linux. While Adobe continues to only support Windows and Mac OS X with most of its products for its own, unknown reasons, alternatives are becoming increasingly popular with the ever-growing Linux user base.
Review of Konqueror - web browser and file manager for KDE
September 29, 2006 — BlackFlagKonqueror was developed to be a universal file manager, web browser and file viewer for the K Desktop Environment (KDE). It was released to the world on 14 June, 2000. At that time, it was described as “the next generation web browser, file manager and document viewer”. This isn’t very far from the truth. Read a review by Softpedia.
The Mozilla Scandal: What can happen to Debian and Ubuntu?
September 26, 2006 — BlackFlagNow that Debian is not allowed to use the Firefox name without showing every patch to Mozilla, people are boycotting Firefox. That is not all that will come of this though. How will this affect Ubuntu? Could Mozilla turn into a Microsoft, only caring about trademarks? This article attempts to clear things up about the Mozilla trademark situation.
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