Tag: UNIX

Repetitive tasks are what computers do best, although in many areas that's a point we seem to have forgotten. This IBM Linux tip gives you all the knowledge you need to schedule repetitive tasks like a pro. Covering the common cron, as well as Anacron and AT, if you're in need of some job scheduling so you can enjoy a martini while some repetitive process runs, this is the ticket to your ...

Whatever the platform, if you're a serious computer user, you've been there. You're copying a huge volume of files from one disk or partition to another, only your computer is lagging so bad that you can't get anything else done! Fear no more Linux fans, a great tutorial at Fried CPU shows you to use ionice to control that unruly I/O that's sapping your real-time productivity. John of Fried CPU ...

Released on January 15th, FreeSBIE 2.0 is a FreeBSD live CD for those looking to experience FreeBSD without making any commitment. Version 2.0, based on FreeBSD 6.2, is the result of almost 2 years of work by the FreeSBIE team (the last release was Dec 6th, 2004). FreeSBIE includes many popular desktop packages such as Gaim, Firefox 1.5, AbiWord, The Gimp and others (including MP3-playback ...

Ubuntu 6.10 final is about to be released this Thursday, marking the journey's end for the "Edgy" release, and a new beginning for the next Ubuntu version, 7.04, dubbed the "Feisty Fawn." No, seriously, don't laugh, that is what they are calling it. Sorry, but I still love the name "IceWeasel" a little too much, and "Feisty Fawn" is even better. At the Ubuntu developer's conference Nov. 5th - Nov. ...

I don't know why you'd want to do this, but... Amit Singh explains how to bring the infamous Blue Screen of Death to Mac OS X. The default Mac OS X kernel panic screen isn't nearly as jarring as the Blue Screen of Death; by comparison, it's downright soothing. My iBook and I have survived three kernel panics together over the past two and a half years, none of which raised my blood pressure too ...

Let's be honest here: BSD is incredibly powerful, stable, and secure, but it's never been the first OS that enters folks' minds when you utter the word "desktop." There are some new ideas in the BSD world, however, and the people behind those new ideas are trying hard to expand BSD to more desktops. At LinuxWorld, the evidence for that is PC-BSD, a version of BSD designed to be easy to install and ...

Bill Clementson calls Conkeror "Firefox for Emacs," which, while not entirely accurate, is an apt description. In actuality Conkeror is an extension for Firefox that makes it possible to control it exclusively by keyboard with keystrokes that match Emacs, the popular text-editor-and-then-some, as closely as possible. But Conkeror goes way beyond keystrokes, making Firefox behave like Emacs as ...

Ever wanted to access a UNIX terminal from, say, an Internet cafe or airport kiosk? Check out AjaxTerm. It's a Python app that uses the magic of Ajax to let you use a full-fledged terminal in any web browser. All it takes is a machine running Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, or Cygwin on Windows and an Apache web server. It even supports terminal colors. It's only as secure as a regular terminal session, ...