One of the great new features of Firefox 3.5 is the native support of the Ogg video format. If you don’t know, Ogg is a Free and Open Source video format from Xiph.org.
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Last time in Bash to Basics I showed how to print text to the terminal with the echo command. This got me thinking about the first program I wrote when I was in fourth grade. I was fortunate enough to be in a school district that had computers in the early ’80s. If you’re around …
Continue reading Bash to Basics: Bash Rocket ScienceFor the latest version, check out Install LAMP on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Why Install LAMP? Today I’m going to show how to install and set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack on Ubuntu. Why do this? It’s useful if you want to set up an off-line web development environment. If you are …
Continue reading Installing LAMP on Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)VirtualBox is a great application for trying out different Linux distros without messing with your current build. In this post I’ll show you how to share a folder between your Linux host and the guest virtual machine. This assumes you have already installed VirtualBox, created and installed your guest OS, and installed VirtualBox Guest Additions.
Continue reading Share Folders Between a Linux Host and Linux Virtual Machine on VirtualBoxIn today’s Command Line Basics we’ll create some customized commands with alias. You can think of alias as a sort of command line shortcut. Odds are, your system already has a few aliases defined by default. If you enter the command by it’s self, without an argument, it will tell you what aliases already exist …
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