Linux stuff from "The Geek Stuff"

Nice beginners guides:

The Geek Stuff

1. 6 Steps to Secure Your Home Wireless Network
2. Turbocharge PuTTY with 12 Powerful Add-Ons
3. 15 Examples To Master Linux Command Line History
4. Firefox Add-On: Hire 7 Personal Bodyguards to Browse Internet Securely
5. Get a Grip on the Grep! – 15 Practical Grep Command Examples
6. Backup and Restore MySQL Database Using mysqldump
7. How To Monitor Remote Linux Host using Nagios 3
8. Mommy, I found it! — 15 Practical Linux Find Command Examples
9. Bash Shell PS1: 10 Examples to Make Your Linux Prompt like Angelina Jolie
10. Top 5 Best Linux OS Distributions
11. Linux Crontab: 15 Awesome Cron Job Examples

Emacs and calc: Part 2, Advanced Calculations

Vectors, etc

Part 2

Emacs and Numbers: Part 1

This is pretty nice since it also does units:

emacs and calc: Part 1

textext for Inkscape: LaTeX Objects

Seems useful but I do not know if it works in Windows or just Linux.

textext

Native Android Applications

Not sure I really understand all of it but this is the link:

Native Android Apps

Getting Started with BASH

A short bash tutorial.

Bash tutorial

CDargs: A linux file system bookmark add on

A navigation system for common Linux systems: Bookmarks and Browser.


CDargs

Beagle Board, Linux and cm Accurate GPS

Here is a way to get cm accurate gps:

Instructions

Help for Linux Commands

Lots of ways to get help without Google.

Free Google Wave Book

Wave book.

Wave

Couch DB Introduction

A document=oriented DB.

Couch

VIM Editor Comments: IBM Article

A nice recent overview on VIM--from 2008.

Figlet

Nice way to spice up script files.

FIGlet

Replace spaces in filenames with underscorees

I need to do this someday!

 Replace spaces in filenames with underscorees

Twits via the Command Line with Curl

It is pretty easy to send twitter messages from a command line;

curl twits

test

test

Use Relative Paths in Your Batch Files

Nice tip for scripts used batch files.

Relatiive

Controlling a Server Over a Serial Link

No keyboard or monitor? Then use a serial link to control the server>

Details Here.

GIMP Tutorials

Nice examples of how to get the most out of Gimp.

Gimp Examples

Nice Visual git tutorial

This explains git very well and with pictures:

git

Emacs Org Tutorial

This is a very detailed tutorial on advanced org usage.


http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-4.1

PC Bios Guide

I can never recall what all the BIOS setups mean. This explanation is thorough.

Bios

.htaccess Tips

This article has some good points on how to configure the Apache Web Server's .htaccess file.

Link

Emacs AlsaPlayer

I have not tried it but this allows you to run a music player from within Emacs:

Alsa

Elisp programming in Emacs

This is a nice and short tutorial for those who want a little information on lisp and making functions for Emacs.

Stevey's Blog Rants

Mounting ISO without Burning a CD

Nice and short video. Shows Gnome GUI and command line methods.

Video

UC Berkeley Self-paced Software Courses: FREE

All sorts of software courses here:

UCB Self-Paced Center

Software Cheat Sheets

This guy has a nice list of cheat sheets:

Cheat  Sheets

Photography and Panoramice Images

Here are some Ubuntu links and a camera mount DIY project:




http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161123&page=1

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/panoramic_photos_in_linux.html

http://www.mybitbox.com/articles/panoramic-photos-in-ubuntu/