Tech Tip: Start a Kiosk Style Machine Running a Single X11 Appli...

Tech Tip: Create an Automatically Scrolling Reader
By combining three useful command-line tools (less, watch and xdotool) along with two xterm windows, you can create an automatically scrolling reader. Say you have a good book in...

Tech Tip : Sending Email from Command line
Geek Ride: "Everyone is not as lucky as having a full fletched email client like thunderbird or kmail to send mails. There is one unlucky group known as system administrators who have to send...

Tech Tip: Fun With Gawk
When grep and sed aren't enough, gawk may provide the extra horsepower that you need. The following tip contains a sampling of some of the things one might do with gawk. more>>