It seems like I’m always losing track of some small sheet of paper with a recipe from my Mom written on it. An old fashioned box of recipe cards just doesn’t suit my style, so I thought about creating a database using OpenOffice.org’s Base. Being short on time and motivation, I decided to look for a specialized application to manage recipes. Continue reading
If you’re a terminal junkie, then you may find yourself wanting to open a terminal window sometimes when you’re browsing the file system in your file manager. If you use the Nautilus file manager, it’s easy to add a button to the context menu to open a terminal window in the current directory. Continue reading
If you’re developing websites, it’s nice to be able to test your code in the privacy of your own computer rather that out in the public internet. In order to do that, you’ll need to install a web server on your development computer. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php) is one of the most common web hosting platforms, so it’s a perfect environment for you to build and test your website code. If you carefully follow these step by step instructions, you’ll have your own Ubuntu LAMP web server on installed, configured, and running in no time. Continue reading
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) uses the latest version of the Nautilus file manager (version 2.30.0). If you’ve been using Ubuntu for a while then you might be accustomed to using location entry in Nautilus. By default, Nautilus came up with the Button Bar to represent the current location in the file system. Continue reading
I’ve shown previously how to use the more command to view text output. Today I’ll show how to do the same thing with the less command. You can run the command simply by opening a terminal window and entering less followed by the file name. For example: Continue reading