Archive for the ‘Links’ Category
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
Nail Down Network Interface Names with ifrename
Who among us has not experienced the joy of rebooting a multi-homed Linux server, and found that our network interfaces have come up in a different order, and been assigned different names by the kernel? This is especially amusing when doing a kernel upgr
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO
The normal bare metal restoration process is: install the operating system from the product disks. Install the backup software, so you can restore your data. Restore your data. Then you get to restore functionality by verifying your configuration files, p
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
Everything you need to know to create modules for the Linux kernel.
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PITIVI Non-Linear video editor
PiTiVi allows users to easily edit audio/video projects based on the GStreamer framework: Capture audio and video; mix, resize, cut, apply effects to audio/video sources; Render/Save the ...
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Getting to Grips with Latex
Here are some tutorials I have written for getting up to speed with this excellent document processing system. If you are not sure why Latex is any good, find out the benefits. I wouldn't consider myself an expert, but I'm learning all the time. I recall
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Debugging make
Make utilities such as GNU make, System V make, and Berkeley make, are fundamental tools for streamlining the application build process, but each one is just a little different from the others. Learn the structure of the makefile and how to avoid common m
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
UNIX tips: Become a better blogger with UNIX
UNIX® and weblogs, or blogs, have a lot in common. Besides being the native environment of most Web servers and the preferred environment for many Web developers, UNIX can be an ideal environment to blog with because of its Web and text-processing power.
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
Merrion Computing Ltd - Seven Secrets of Successful Programmers
It is one of the most pervasive misunderstandings in computing that the source code is for the computer's consumption. Computers work with low-level binary code, a series of impenetrable 1's and 0's or hexadecimal numbers, not the structured high level la
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
How to Post to Two Separate Del.icio.us Accounts Easily
If you maintain two separate del.icio.us accounts (one personal account and one for a business or web site), you know how difficult del.icio.us can be to use if you are having to switch usernames all of the time. Essentially, everytime you want ...
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
See changes word by word with dwdiff
Nice tool for writers."Unix text utilities were designed primarily for programmers and admins, but here's a little secret: the utilities also work well for writers. Instead of using diff to see changes between programs, I often use diff utilities to see w
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Fender Players Club - Blues Guitar Lessons
Online blues guitar lessons from Fender.
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Styles - Blues Index
Guitar instruction
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R. Crumb's "Heroes of the Blues"
I first saw illustrator R. Crumbs work in the late '60s, when I read the incomparable Zap Comics. Here are his portraits of ...
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