Schedule periodic tasks with cron
Last week's techmail was Schedule periodic tasks with cron, a title that pretty much summarizes what the tip is about. All about cron and how it can schedule stuff.
more ...Last week's techmail was Schedule periodic tasks with cron, a title that pretty much summarizes what the tip is about. All about cron and how it can schedule stuff.
more ...Last week's techmail was Customizing the Joe text editor which goes into some detail regarding customizing Joe, specifically about how you can change key bindings to make shortcuts or other modifications. Joe is one of the first text editors I've ever used with Linux, and I still use it today …
more ...This week's techmail is Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3. I was approached a month or so ago by an individual who does forensic work, mostly on Windows and Mac computers and he was in need of something to do forensics with Linux, and wanted a tool that …
more ...This past week's Techmail was Install extra packages on the ASUS Eee PC which discusses adding extra Xandros repositories to get more packages on the Eee PC than what the standard install provides.
more ...Hey, just a question for you guys out there. Don't know how many of you are with a hosting outfit rather than running your own server (be it at home, work, or at a colocation), but I have a bit of an issue here when I reported a problem with …
more ...If there's one thing that irked me about WordPress, which I more or less ignored for months, was the inability to change the "From" address on emails it sent. It's hard-coded to "wordpress@${sitename}" and when you have some... weird... domain hosters, this can cause problems. I haven't received comment …
more ...This week's TechMail is entitled Installing Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC, which, as the name implies, discusses Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC.
When I wrote it, I had installed Mandriva onto an SDHC card, but I've since replaced Xandros with Mandriva on the SSD …
more ...This week's Techmail is ASUS Eee PC is a good option for a lightweight laptop which is a basic summary of the little EeePC and why I like mine. =) This one basically covers the Xandros OS that comes with the Eee, but a future one (probably next week I'm suspecting …
more ...Last week's Techmail was GUI scripting with Zenity which discusses using Zenity to display GUI widgets from scripts. I've used such things for a full blown menu driven CLI app before, but Zenity is quite cool in that you get all the power of a shell script with a nice …
more ...Last year I wrote about my 20 minutes with OS X Leopard server. This week I had the opportunity, and the obligation, to spend a bit more time with it. Next month I'm converting an office that's currently using Windows and Exchange for an OS X-based solution. There will be …
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