So you have your printer set up with CUPS and you can now print. Ever want to print from the command line? Ever need your bash script to print out system status reports or simply want to print out entire directory of pdfs all in one shot without having to open each pdf individually? Than this quick tip is for you. Read more »

After looking on the internet for awhile I finally found a decent guide on how to setup Gmail SMTP through postifx; however, after following the guide I found that it left parts out or things didn’t work quite the same on a Ubuntu server. Read more »

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 »