Don’t order any Laptops or PC’s with these NVidia chips … they fail. Related: Ten Dell models have defective Nvidia GPUs. (HP and ASUS and all other vendors are equally affected as the NVidia chips themselves are faulty).

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Fun with rename: 1) To rename filenames with CAPS characters to lowercase: rename ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ * 2) To remove <spaces> from filenames: rename ‘s/ /-/g’ * 3) To strip files with the .bak extension: rename ‘s/\.bak$//’ *.bak Free: The free command displays the amount of free and used memory in the system. For example, free -m [...]

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Source: Ubuntu Wiki. Recording Skype calls NOTE: This howto uses examples geared toward recording with gnome-sound-recorder. If you are using KDE, go to the bottom of this howto and click on the original link. There you will find additional info on using kmix and krecord. The basic howto is still the same. What you’ll needed [...]

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Tips from IBM, not all that complicated, but worth looking at. Other tips include… Sharing computers on a Linux (or heterogeneous) network. IBM’s top 10 Linux articles and tutorials. Miscellaneous tips. Linux-powered networking: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Industrial-strength Linux box lockdown, a howto: Part 1 and Part 2. Introduction to cryptology concepts: [...]

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Source: LinuxHaxor.net Essentially RTorrent, CTorrent and Transmission-CLI.

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Source for this great article: Linux.com In this context, a one-liner is a set of commands normally joined through a pipe (|). When joined by a pipe, the command on the left passes its output to the command on the right. Simple or complex, you can get useful results from a single line at the [...]

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Source: blog.sontek.net This is an excellent treatment on advanced file permissions in Linux, though centered on OpenSUSE, it’s still very helpful and applicable to any distro. Though John credits this source for working with advanced Linux permissions in Ubuntu under Nautilus (Gnome).

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1. lsb_release -a 2. The watch command. 3. Command line intro summary, with some rarely used switches (TLDP). 4. If you’re using a system which has a lot of users, and you’d like to see who has started a particular script, daemon, or binary, then the pstree utility is very helpful. It draws a tree [...]

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Now here’s something you don’t see every day. Click the little grey box in the upper left for instructions — then have fun, I did. A gallery of what people have done resides here.

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