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