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Installing Debian + Grub On A USB Stick
Posted 2008-05-21

Find all pictures
Posted 2008-04-27

/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Posted 2008-04-26

Howto make a voice recording in Debian
Posted 2008-04-19

Debian

Forcefully removing broken packages
Posted 2009-05-20

Suspend and LOCK!
Posted 2009-01-16

Debian re-install init.d configs
Posted 2009-01-02

Version number pain
Posted 2008-12-09

How to rotate a video
Posted 2008-11-04

How to find the Debian version of an installed package
Posted 2008-10-18

Debian man pages
Posted 2008-10-07

Clearing space on root
Posted 2008-07-29

sysctl modify kernel parameters
Posted 2008-07-17

USB stick automount
Posted 2008-06-30

Xsession
Posted 2008-05-28

Script Movies
Posted 2008-05-20

Finding out which repository the package comes from
Posted 2008-05-20

Terminus console font
Posted 2008-05-19

Disable screen blanking
Posted 2008-05-19

What does the .in suffix in postinst.in mean?
Posted 2008-05-18

How to extend a LVM partition
Posted 2008-04-28

Killing a process by name
Posted 2008-04-22

Running a second X server
Posted 2008-04-16

Configuring an external USB drive with LVM
Posted 2008-02-28

Configuring a directory with encryption using LVM
Posted 2008-02-18

Resizing LVM
Posted 2008-02-18

Configuring Firefox as the default Web browser
Posted 2008-02-06

Testing a firewall?
Posted 2007-12-26

Installing Xfree86 4.3 SID
Posted 2007-12-26

NAT with dhcp
Posted 2007-12-26

Closing bugs
Posted 2007-12-26

Working on some packages from the Web
Posted 2007-12-26

Comparing files in directories
Posted 2007-12-26

Turn off Beeping
Posted 2007-12-26

FHS
Posted 2007-12-26

Anti-aliased fonts
Posted 2007-12-26

Screen - enhancing the power of the console
Posted 2007-12-26

Debugging core dumps
Posted 2007-12-26

Virtualisation with OpenVZ
Posted 2007-12-26

Basically using diff
Posted 2007-12-26

Spaces in filename?
Posted 2007-12-26

Getting rid of .svn
Posted 2007-12-26

dhclient requesting without physical connection
Posted 2007-12-26

whois dig
Posted 2007-12-26

Sane SUDO configuration
Posted 2007-12-26

Packages from experimental
Posted 2007-12-26

Configuring POSTFIX with your ISP's smtp
Posted 2007-12-26

Taking screenshots
Posted 2007-12-26

Finding about your Xorg display
Posted 2007-12-26

Mplayer and BBC
Posted 2007-12-26

Iceweasel DD search keyword shorcut bookmarks
Posted 2007-12-26

What package does this file belong to ?
Posted 2007-12-26

Cloning a Debian machine
Posted 2007-12-26

Check out some multimedia
Posted 2007-12-26

Using the Ion window manager notes
Posted 2007-12-26

Removing something from the runlevels
Posted 2007-12-26

Patching a debian package
Posted 2007-12-26

SMTP via SSH
Posted 2007-12-26

SSH port forwarding
Posted 2007-12-26

NFS and Subversion
Posted 2007-12-26

Ping broadcast
Posted 2007-12-26

/etc/enviroment Proxy configuration
Posted 2007-12-26

2.6 CD Burning
Posted 2007-12-26

Compiling your own kernel (not recommended)
Posted 2007-12-26

Realplayer
Posted 2007-12-26

Re-logging in (for taking on new permission settings)
Posted 2007-12-26

how do I filter output for just stderr messages?
Posted 2007-12-26

Kernel modules (2.4) after copying a linux partition into a different machine
Posted 2007-12-26

C binary information
Posted 2007-12-26

Checking packages
Posted 2007-12-26

Arch Indep packages
Posted 2007-12-26

Howto tar up dot files and dirs
Posted 2007-12-26

xkill - Killing a process
Posted 2007-12-26

Exim 4 SMTP Auth
Posted 2007-12-26

Diffstat
Posted 2007-12-26

Screencasting, YouTube-y tips
Posted 2007-12-26

netstat -napt (Who's connected to me?)
Posted 2007-12-26

Version of package ?
Posted 2007-12-26

Modifying runlevels
Posted 2007-12-26

Grub Vga Framebuffer
Posted 2007-12-26

Pinning
Posted 2007-12-26

Showing friends and family GNU/Linux
Posted 2007-12-26

AWK tips
Posted 2007-12-26

LVM2
Posted 2007-12-26

Preparing a new upstream source release
Posted 2007-12-26

SVN homedir
Posted 2007-12-26

Getting your IP from a DHCP server
Posted 2007-12-26

Installing something in tmp or your homedir or something
Posted 2007-12-26

Fixing a package listing after a screw up with dselect
Posted 2007-12-26

Bits and Bytes
Posted 2007-12-26

TCP Port listings
Posted 2007-12-26

Runlevels.
Posted 2007-12-26

Grabbing a file from a Subversion repositry
Posted 2007-12-26

Unicode
Posted 2007-12-26

Debian Iptable Firewall
Posted 2007-12-26

Subversion gotchas
Posted 2007-12-26

Bash tips
Posted 2007-12-26

Setting timezone in Debian
Posted 2007-12-26

What was the return code of the last command?
Posted 2007-12-26

diffing diffs
Posted 2007-12-26

Viewing a firewall
Posted 2007-12-26

Using IRSSI
Posted 2007-12-26

Backgrounding a process
Posted 2007-12-26

Time in New York? Tokyo?
Posted 2007-12-26

ps aux truncated output?
Posted 2007-12-26

Name the interface
Posted 2007-12-26

Installing debian without CDs or boot floppies
Posted 2007-12-26

Backing up
Posted 2007-12-26

dos2unix
Posted 2007-12-26

Library usage
Posted 2007-12-26

How to unfuck your terminal/console
Posted 2007-12-26

Better than apt-cache search
Posted 2007-12-26

Makefile for generating your CV
Posted 2007-12-26

Exim 4 Catchall
Posted 2007-12-26

KODAK DC3400 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA gphoto2
Posted 2007-12-26

Version numbers
Posted 2007-12-26

Re-mastering a CD
Posted 2007-12-26

Keeping track of changes in unstable
Posted 2007-12-26

Steps to setting a sub domain for a web service
Posted 2007-12-26

BIN-NMU
Posted 2007-12-26

Viewing a subversion dump file
Posted 2007-12-26

Use XDM
Posted 2007-12-26

Majordomo how to remove a user
Posted 2007-12-26

H4X0ring a d3b14n b0x3n
Posted 2007-12-26

Bashing carefully
Posted 2007-12-26

route add default gw
Posted 2007-12-26

Hard link vs Soft link
Posted 2007-12-26

Duplex printing - use mpage
Posted 2007-12-26

Writing CDs (Backing up your Mail)
Posted 2007-12-26

Recording console sessions
Posted 2007-12-26

hdparm
Posted 2007-12-26

Time in Ubuntu
Posted 2007-12-26

Mozilla crashing on news.bbc.co.uk ??
Posted 2007-12-26

tee
Posted 2007-12-26

Basename (removing filename extensions in BASH)
Posted 2007-12-26

Installing java
Posted 2007-12-26

How do I update grub menu.lst on kernel-image install ?
Posted 2007-12-26

Image magic with imagemagick
Posted 2007-12-26

Cat redirects
Posted 2007-12-26

What type of file is it?
Posted 2007-12-26

hdparm
Posted 2007-12-26

Passwordless logins with SSH
Posted 2007-12-26

You are working on a foreign language machine ?
Posted 2007-12-26

date fun
Posted 2007-12-26

Subversion CVS ROOT
Posted 2007-12-26

Finding additional information about a package not installed
Posted 2007-12-26

Reading USENET news
Posted 2007-12-26

Changing your window manager
Posted 2007-12-26

CVS checking/viewing differences between versions after commit
Posted 2007-12-26

Ion the window manager resizing the frame
Posted 2007-12-26

Java in Debian
Posted 2007-12-26

Managing a TODO list
Posted 2007-12-26

maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.
Posted 2007-12-26

initrd
Posted 2007-12-26

Unpacking source
Posted 2007-12-26

Use 'sudo', not 'su'
Posted 2007-12-26

Brazilian guys in Portugal
Posted 2007-12-26

etc with Subversion
Posted 2007-12-26

how can a setup the default keymap for console??
Posted 2007-12-26

chroot
Posted 2007-12-26

mkdir -p not mkhier
Posted 2007-12-26

T30 2366-PM1 with Debian SID
Posted 2007-12-26

Getting the linux boot arguments
Posted 2007-12-26

Roll back to previous package ! DOWNGRADING
Posted 2007-12-26

Linux Ghost
Posted 2007-12-26

crontab job
Posted 2007-12-26

(kernel module) keeps on loading at boot time and I don't know how to blacklist it
Posted 2007-12-26

SVN ID AUTHOR DATE information
Posted 2007-12-26

date time for file name
Posted 2007-12-26

CVS importing
Posted 2007-12-26

What does a symlink point to? (symbolic links)
Posted 2007-12-26

bash prompt
Posted 2007-12-26

using gnu tar reference
Posted 2007-12-26

Grepping
Posted 2007-12-26

Sendmail mail when back online
Posted 2007-12-26

Official Debian Tips
Posted 2007-12-26

Standards versions diff
Posted 2007-12-26

Reading a man page
Posted 2007-12-26

What is the command to change password?
Posted 2007-12-26

Enscript
Posted 2007-12-26

lsof
Posted 2007-12-26

mutt - my Email client

Getting rid of duplicates
Posted 2007-12-26

My censored .muttrc
Posted 2007-12-26

Emailing pictures
Posted 2007-12-26

.mailcap
Posted 2007-12-26

Forwarding mail to another account
Posted 2007-12-26

Merging maildirs
Posted 2007-12-26

Exim4 Etch Configuration
Posted 2007-12-26

Maildrop: Forwarding emails
Posted 2007-12-26

Searching mail
Posted 2007-12-26

Mark all mail read
Posted 2007-12-26

c shortcuts
Posted 2007-12-26

Saving messages in IMAP
Posted 2007-12-26

Getting rid of frozen messages
Posted 2007-12-26

Debugging mutt
Posted 2007-12-26

Reading attachments (God forbid)
Posted 2007-12-26

Trick for subscribing to a mailing list
Posted 2007-12-26

Vim text width
Posted 2007-12-26

Edit messages properly
Posted 2007-12-26

GPG - Gnu Privacy Guard, to sign and encrypt

Getting started
Posted 2007-12-26

Make a revocation certificate, in case your key is jeopardized, like your forgot your passphrase :)
Posted 2007-12-26

Debian keysigning
Posted 2007-12-26

The Web

Escaping and quoting best practices for PHP
Posted 2008-11-14

Selecting the first H1
Posted 2008-11-04

Chrome, wine and Debian
Posted 2008-09-25

Apache2 Vhost logging
Posted 2008-07-18

Mozex VIM textarea editing
Posted 2008-06-10

javascript var scope
Posted 2008-05-15

Editing HTML5 in vim
Posted 2008-05-13

Shell CGI
Posted 2008-04-27

Unicode in PHP
Posted 2008-03-10

Debian feed
Posted 2007-12-26

Mapping URLs to the FS
Posted 2007-12-26

Bad News
Posted 2007-12-26

update-alternatives x-www-browser
Posted 2007-12-26

HTML is the API
Posted 2007-12-26

Grepping a URL
Posted 2007-12-26

Why not HTML?
Posted 2007-12-26

Unicode UTF-8
Posted 2007-12-26

Disable caching in Apache2
Posted 2007-12-26

XML on the Web has failed.
Posted 2007-12-26

Unpractial Specs from the W3C
Posted 2007-12-26

Mozilla Type Ahead Find
Posted 2007-12-26

Accessibility = disability
Posted 2007-12-26

An XHTML or a XHTML ?
Posted 2007-12-26

Mozilla and Subversion
Posted 2007-12-26

Disable an extension in Iceweasel/Firefox
Posted 2007-12-26

SVG sucks
Posted 2007-12-26

PDF
Posted 2007-12-26

Some soup sir?
Posted 2007-12-26

Mozilla forms
Posted 2007-12-26

Copy, Paste, Cut
Posted 2007-12-26

Web applications with Mozilla
Posted 2007-12-26

POST forms into Get forms
Posted 2007-12-26

Keywords
Posted 2007-12-26

How to make web pages properly
Posted 2007-12-26

Apache 2 Vhost
Posted 2007-12-26

Web stats are useless
Posted 2007-12-26

Rails, Debian and gem
Posted 2007-12-26

Shorcuts in Mozilla
Posted 2007-12-26

Browser security
Posted 2007-12-26

Mobitopia
Posted 2007-12-26

Encode your email address to protect yourself from spam bots
Posted 2007-12-26

Licensing
Posted 2007-12-26

Addressbook standard
Posted 2007-12-26

WHAT
Posted 2007-12-26

Wordpress password mysql
Posted 2007-12-26

Webstats
Posted 2007-12-26

Dogma
Posted 2007-12-26

Arguments

Bad X-ray
Posted 2009-01-11

Comparing modes of working communication
Posted 2008-11-27

Sales procedure - Need, Feature, Benefit
Posted 2008-11-05

Dreams
Posted 2007-12-26

Lesscode!
Posted 2007-12-26

Lets believe a clueless analyst
Posted 2007-12-26

Finnish ALCOHOL TAXATION
Posted 2007-12-26

Religions can be damaging
Posted 2007-12-26

Radical Simplicity
Posted 2007-12-26

Anonymity
Posted 2007-12-26

Politicians
Posted 2007-12-26

RAID sucks
Posted 2007-12-26

Python as a teaching language
Posted 2007-12-26

Digital Media
Posted 2007-12-26

DRM
Posted 2007-12-26

Copywrongs
Posted 2007-12-26

Standards
Posted 2007-12-26

Compare and contrasting
Posted 2007-12-26

KP Child / Kiddie Pornography
Posted 2007-12-26

Internet over powerlines
Posted 2007-12-26

Selling free software
Posted 2007-12-26

Gmail
Posted 2007-12-26

Civil liberties
Posted 2007-12-26

1 in 3 people in South Africa die of AIDS
Posted 2007-12-26

Quotes
Posted 2007-12-26

NO to the de-facto monopoly Microsoft
Posted 2007-12-26

Certification bodies
Posted 2007-12-26

Powerpoint SUCKS
Posted 2007-12-26

There is NO GOD
Posted 2007-12-26

Fire and Motion
Posted 2007-12-26

Credit Card security
Posted 2007-12-26

Free markets
Posted 2007-12-26

Writing letters
Posted 2007-12-26

Leadership
Posted 2007-12-26

Free software in Education / Schools
Posted 2007-12-26

IP
Posted 2007-12-26

Bill Gates will solve spam
Posted 2007-12-26

For EU
Posted 2007-12-26

Scientific Writing
Posted 2007-12-26

Python

Parsing XML root attributes
Posted 2009-05-27

Joining a list of strings, or ints
Posted 2007-12-26

Dropping into the interpreter after an ERROR to debug
Posted 2007-12-26

Am I running PyXML?
Posted 2007-12-26

StripoGram - use strings
Posted 2007-12-26

String contains - Python2.3
Posted 2007-12-26

Adding lists
Posted 2007-12-26

Running other programs
Posted 2007-12-26

importing modules
Posted 2007-12-26

Parsing XML for the text/cdata between a particular start/end tag
Posted 2007-12-26

Fixing tabs? Use reindent.py
Posted 2007-12-26

PYTHONPATH in script
Posted 2007-12-26

Parsing strings into dicts
Posted 2007-12-26

Normalizing whitespace
Posted 2007-12-26

None is null in python
Posted 2007-12-26

Inserting values into HTML output
Posted 2007-12-26

Constructing and then Printing/Writing a simple XML file with dom
Posted 2007-12-26

VIM settings for proper style
Posted 2007-12-26

Parsing HTML with REs
Posted 2007-12-26

Class customization
Posted 2007-12-26

Unique elements from a list
Posted 2007-12-26

Template
Posted 2007-12-26

Recursive file tree add thing
Posted 2007-12-26

Write now!
Posted 2007-12-26

Mapping Types = dict
Posted 2007-12-26

Regular Expressions
Posted 2007-12-26

Installing XML-SIG package as a user
Posted 2007-12-26

repr
Posted 2007-12-26

Infrequently asked questions
Posted 2007-12-26

Umask, permissions in newly created files
Posted 2007-12-26

Counting lines in a file
Posted 2007-12-26

Sorting dictionaries (code example)
Posted 2007-12-26

Urllib
Posted 2007-12-26

Zip
Posted 2007-12-26

Printing attributes of a class
Posted 2007-12-26

How would one read line (x) from a file?
Posted 2007-12-26

Bayes
Posted 2007-12-26

Type checking or Object type comparisons
Posted 2007-12-26

Traversing minidom's tree (Parsing XML to text)
Posted 2007-12-26

Iterating through two (equal) lists
Posted 2007-12-26

Debugging trick
Posted 2007-12-26

Quick reference
Posted 2007-12-26

r+ (appending) and pickle do not mix!
Posted 2007-12-26

Parsing tag soup
Posted 2007-12-26

Ordered list union
Posted 2007-12-26

Refactoring perl ;) STDIN STDOUT Example
Posted 2007-12-26

List sorting (DSU?)
Posted 2007-12-26

Not using readlines (save memory)
Posted 2007-12-26

Printing your enviroment settings
Posted 2007-12-26

Passing arguments
Posted 2007-12-26

Copy a list !
Posted 2007-12-26

Fiddling with PYTHONPATH in bash
Posted 2007-12-26

How do I determine whether a string is of letter characters or digits?
Posted 2007-12-26

Unitesting (simple example)
Posted 2007-12-26

for i in range(len(li)): BAD
Posted 2007-12-26

Regex XML
Posted 2007-12-26

Installing libraries into your $HOME
Posted 2007-12-26

Finding the key to a value
Posted 2007-12-26

Using sub re groups as arguments in functions
Posted 2007-12-26

Returning first word on a line in a file by line number example
Posted 2007-12-26

PyGTK
Posted 2007-12-26

Passwords
Posted 2007-12-26

Setting/initializing a list of certain length
Posted 2007-12-26

Try use cPickle, it is faster
Posted 2007-12-26

Running nevow/twistd on a vhost
Posted 2007-12-26

how do I call a function in my class?
Posted 2007-12-26

Return, do not print
Posted 2007-12-26

Organizing libs for your project
Posted 2007-12-26

Setting list values
Posted 2007-12-26

Reading input / user interaction
Posted 2007-12-26

VIM - my editor of choice

Merging differences
Posted 2008-08-31

Formatting text
Posted 2008-08-31

Searching short variable names
Posted 2008-07-30

Inserting a Unicode character in VIM
Posted 2008-06-10

vim7's tabs
Posted 2008-04-22

vim7's auto-completion features
Posted 2008-04-22

Undoing and bouncing between changes
Posted 2008-04-22

Inserting UNICODE
Posted 2008-03-10

How do I configure VIM to resume editing where I was last editing in a file, saved and quit?
Posted 2007-12-26

Byte code!
Posted 2007-12-26

Searching and Replacing
Posted 2007-12-26

Literal Char
Posted 2007-12-26

Commenting certain lines
Posted 2007-12-26

Latex
Posted 2007-12-26

Cleaning whitespace
Posted 2007-12-26

FAQ
Posted 2007-12-26

Search and replace
Posted 2007-12-26

New lines in VIM
Posted 2007-12-26

The book
Posted 2007-12-26

vim7's spelling features
Posted 2007-12-26

Wordcount
Posted 2007-12-26

Make development cycles in C/C++
Posted 2007-12-26

Learn like IRC
Posted 2007-12-26

Python
Posted 2007-12-26

Spanish
Posted 2007-12-26

XML
Posted 2007-12-26

Editing two files
Posted 2007-12-26

Outputting VIM buffer as HTML
Posted 2007-12-26

Hardware

Testing BT ADSL
Posted 2009-05-29

Floppy disks should have a WARNING on them
Posted 2007-12-26

Optical mice need cleaning too
Posted 2007-12-26

Use Memtest86 and badblocks to test a computer
Posted 2007-12-26

Source Control SCM

Git tips from work
Posted 2008-12-13

Git CVS tutorial
Posted 2008-06-30

Checking mirrors in SVK
Posted 2007-12-26

Tracking another branch of a project with GIT
Posted 2007-12-26

Revert a change in CVS
Posted 2007-12-26

Finding .svn
Posted 2007-12-26

Howto send a PATCH from git
Posted 2007-12-26

cvs release in Subversion?
Posted 2007-12-26

SVK notes
Posted 2007-12-26

Unpatch a patch
Posted 2007-12-26

Merging changes from your HEAD branch to your other branches
Posted 2007-12-26

Cherry pick a change in SVN
Posted 2007-12-26

Diff to head of trunk
Posted 2007-12-26

I am on changes X and I want to roll back to X-1 for testing
Posted 2007-12-26

SVK: Missing file
Posted 2007-12-26

Reverting with Subversion
Posted 2007-12-26

Building Subversion in your $HOME
Posted 2007-12-26

Accidental deletion
Posted 2007-12-26

Latex

Links
Posted 2007-12-26

Biblography tips
Posted 2007-12-26

TODO list
Posted 2007-12-26

Roman enumeration
Posted 2007-12-26

Online resources
Posted 2007-12-26

Letters
Posted 2007-12-26

Latin1 Characters
Posted 2007-12-26

R

Sorting a table
Posted 2007-12-26

Pipe
Posted 2007-12-26

Histogram
Posted 2007-12-26

Barplot
Posted 2007-12-26

Red Hat

User limits
Posted 2007-12-26

CentOS
Posted 2007-12-26

Listing files in an RPM
Posted 2007-12-26

Installing from CDs using the console
Posted 2007-12-26

SELinux
Posted 2007-12-26

Silly security with TCP wrappers hosts.allow
Posted 2007-12-26

Firewall
Posted 2007-12-26

Bash and shell

First character of a variable in shell
Posted 2008-11-30

Shell cat END
Posted 2008-11-11

Testing for root in POSIX shell
Posted 2008-09-10

Listing directory size
Posted 2008-07-29

find tips
Posted 2008-07-27

Source line count
Posted 2008-07-27

Sed in place editing
Posted 2008-03-10

Progress bar for dd
Posted 2008-03-09

ISO8601 a file
Posted 2007-12-26

Adding a column of floats
Posted 2007-12-26

Viewing certain pictures
Posted 2007-12-26

Backspace
Posted 2007-12-26

Removing characters
Posted 2007-12-26

Checking a variable is set
Posted 2007-12-26

Bash YES/NO prompt interaction
Posted 2007-12-26

Deleting french movies with spaces
Posted 2007-12-26

Testing VARs
Posted 2007-12-26

split
Posted 2007-12-26

find and copy
Posted 2007-12-26

Case insentitive basename
Posted 2007-12-26

Getting port numbers out of /etc/service
Posted 2007-12-26

Turning off option parsing
Posted 2007-12-26

Testing a file exists
Posted 2007-12-26

Count to ten
Posted 2007-12-26

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