Navigating and Moving Files Around

The first thing you need to know about navigation the unix world is the difference between ‘/textFile.txt’ and ‘textFile.txt’. Read more »

Have old hardware, slow computer or a server that requires a Gnome and want to find out how to make Gnome use less memory and other system resources? Read more »

1. Tab

 
The most handy shortcut and time saver for the linux command line. Read more »

What is the PS1?

 
The PS1 is the first thing that you see when you open a terminal. In the picture below it is the green text, ‘mark@thinktank:~$‘. The default bash PS1 only shows ‘[hostname]$ ‘. This is not very useful since you have to type ‘pwd‘ all the time just to see what directory you are in. I prefer to my current directory in the PS1. Read more »

By default Gnome uses gedit for the defualt text editor. Since I am constantly writing and modifying config files and programming in scripting languages I decided to try the “programmer’s text editor”. Read more »

It is often required to mount a shared Windows drive instead of browsing the share through nautilus or smbclient. Read more »

Recently I installed a copy of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 on an older computer and I noticed that the Gnome menu was slow and the icons next to the menu items were taking a few seconds to load. Read more »