With the arrival of the Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta I figured it was a good time to run some benchmarks on the major web browsers available for Windows. I chose to run the Acid3 Test and Google’s V8 Benchmark. The Acid3 Test checks to see if a browser properly renders a page according to web …
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Today’s Command Line Basics focuses on Navigating the File System with the cd command. cd stands for change directory. The cd command on its own will take you to your home directory (/home/userid/). If you have a directory in your home called Documents, then cd Documents will take you there. Following are the basic uses …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Navigating the File SystemIn the first installment of Command Line Basics, I explained the use of the echo command. In this first installment of Bash to Basics, I’ll show how to use the echo command in a script. Open up a text editor and paste the following text into it.
Continue reading Bash to Basics: Print Text with echoI’m starting a new feature called Command Line Basics. In this first installment I’m going to cover the echo command. The echo command is used for sending text to the standard output. In most cases, the standard output is your terminal. For example, to print the word “echo” to your terminal output, enter the command
Continue reading Command Line Basics: echoThe beta version of Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is out and available for download. The process I’m going to show is to install the beta without removing your current installation. This is just a basic testing setup. If you want to do a true full install, follow the directions in the Ubuntu documentation. First off, download …
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