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Helping you Learn Linux. Nixtutor takes you from an intermediate computer user to an advanced Linux user by providing full step by step guides to the most common computer problems. By using the Linux operating system you can take advantage of some of the most advanced computer technologies for free. Nixtutor will show you not only how Linux can become your primary operating system but also how you can be more productive in both desktop and server environments. It wont cost you a penny.
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Sending Mail Through Gmail with Perl
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Helping you Learn Linux. Sending Mail Through Gmail with Perl. Mon, Jul 6, 2009. We talked about some of the benefits. Of setting up an email server in Linux. And how you can use python to send email. Now we are going to look at how you can send email from Perl. Mailer- dataend; $mailer- quit;. Comments powered by Disqus.
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Linux Shutdown Management
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Helping you Learn Linux. Wed, Jul 8, 2009. Here are a few example of all the ways we can shutdown and reboot on a nix machine. Power off the Machine Now. Shutdown 10 Minutes From Now. Sudo shutdown -h 10 'Shutting down in 5 minutes! Sudo shutdown -r 23:00. If you decide you don’t need to shutdown after all you can issue a cancel command like this:. Give a Shutdown Warning Without Actually Shutting Down. Waking your Computer up. David, from crowdway blog, posted a command. Reboot Daily with Cron.
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Creating an in-house Dropbox: Phase 1
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Helping you Learn Linux. Creating an in-house Dropbox: Phase 1. Wed, Aug 26, 2009. Create a Central Repository. Create a folder on a large hard drive or raid your main computer/server. On the repository machine install Unison. Sudo apt-get install unison. On the local machine connect via SSH and test that the install went ok. Ssh yourhostname unison -version. You should see something like, “ unison version 2.27.57. Create a file in your repository directory:. Install Unison on the Local Machine. Then scp...
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7 Tasks You Shouldn't Use a GUI For
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Helping you Learn Linux. 7 Tasks You Shouldnt Use a GUI For. Wed, Jul 29, 2009. Here are a few tasks that you might want to consider using the command line for. Unless you are doing some sort of cropping there is no reason to load up Photoshop or the Gimp. A simple command will usually suffice for almost all your image resizing needs. Convert -resize 300 image.jpg image-small.jpg. 2 Adding a Drop Shadow to an Image. Note: You must have Imagemagick. 3 Splice Together an MP3. If you want simple. Note: You ...
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Using Rsync
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Helping you Learn Linux. Wed, Aug 5, 2009. Rysnc helps you transfer data from one location to another in an efficient manner. It is one of those tools that you learn to use and wonder how you lived without it. Rsync is the de facto standard in backup solutions because of its flexibility and power. Rsync checks each file and transfers only what has changed. What does this mean exactly? Rsync is Efficient but What Else Can it Do? For example to mirror one folder to another you could do:. Rsync av /path/to/...
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Your Chance to Contribute to an Open Source Project
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Helping you Learn Linux. Your Chance to Contribute to an Open Source Project. Wed, Oct 7, 2009. I originally created a simple site monitoring Python script and posted it up to github as a “gist”: 177420. It was then improved by Eric Wendelin. Who forked my original gist and made it better in this gist: 187610. Eric had made the script much more “pythonic” and really made the code more usable and expendable which he explains in his blog post, Site monitoring with Python and cron. Sudo apt-get install git).
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All the Best Linux Cheat Sheets
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Helping you Learn Linux. All the Best Linux Cheat Sheets. Tue, Apr 7, 2009. 1 Linux Command Line. Great reference published on FOSSwire website. One page Linux Manual. Great one page reference to the most popular Linux commands. An incredibly exhaustive reference for all things Linux. Treebeard’s Unix Cheat Sheet. A great reference with Dos comparisons. Cheat sheet for the most common terminal shortcuts. More shortcuts for history and X. Linux Security Quick Reference Guide. Linux Admin Quick Reference.
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Send Mail with Gmail and sSMTP
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Helping you Learn Linux. Send Mail with Gmail and sSMTP. Mon, Jun 29, 2009. Sometimes we want to enable our servers/desktops to be able to send email without setting up a full featured mail server or configuring postfix to route through Gmail. SSmtp is an extremely simple, resource conserving, SMTP server that will allow your desktop or server to send email. In this article we are going to use sSMTP to send outgoing email through Gmail. Sudo apt-get install ssmtp. Now try sending an email. Ruby, and Perl.
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