Here's a short sum-up on how to (re-)format your hard- or usb drive from the command line using fdisk.
Here's a handy list of shortcut key combinations for Ubuntu Linux:
Rsync makes it very easy to do speedy professional backups copying only the differences between two specified files or directories.
Here's a quick example of backing up a directory recursively - in archive mode (-a) and verbally (-v) showing progress --progress in human readable format (-h) and deleting deleted files on the destiny location --delete (careful with that!!).
To install gedit plugins (amongst which - session-save possibillity) use the following aptitude command:
The following excerpt describes how to setup samba on ubuntu 10:
The man pages for the cp command don't tell you how you can copy multiple files and directories in one command. It's actually quite simple:
You can use GNU grep to search a whole directory and print out all files containing a certain string. Very handy indeed. Here's an example
To configure a static IP (an IP that will never change) in Ubuntu Debian via Bash you must edit the file
/etc/networking/interfaces and put in something similar to the following:
I always have to look this up for some reason :
to make a screen shot on a mac use any of the following:
Use the following commands to mount a Windows or Samba share on the network:
Mount a share on the network using samba.
install curl extension for php
find by name
Put something like this in smb.conf:
Unpack tarball
list available harddrives (Debian / Ubuntu):