There are times in my work where I need to edit large text files. My text editor of choice for editing large files is VIM. One of the things that I sometimes need to do is to comment out a group of lines from a file. VIM can make short work of tasks like this.
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HandBrake is a program for transcoding video files. By default it transcodes video to H.264 format, so the files get compressed to a reasonable size while retaining high audio and video quality. There are versions available for Windows, OSX, and Linux. In this post I’m going to show how to install it in Linux Mint …
Continue reading Install HandBrake on Linux Mint 13If you’ve been using Linux or Unix for a long time, then you’re probably familiar remote technologies like rlogin, FTP, and Telnet. These are all wonderful technologies for using a computer remotely, but they are notoriously insecure due to your login credentials being transmitted over the Internet in plain text format.
Continue reading Install SSH and SFTP on Ubuntu or Linux MintThere are a few common problems that people run into after installing LAMP on Ubuntu. In this post I’ll show how to fix a few of those problems. If you don’t already have LAMP set up, please see How To Install LAMP on Ubuntu.
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Why Install LAMP on Ubuntu? Why should you install LAMP on Ubuntu? When working on web development, I prefer to work within the privacy of my own development environment located on my computer. I’d rather make the majority of my mistakes where no one else can see them rather than out in the wild of …
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