Hopefully by now you understand the need to have a strong password for your computer login. Perhaps you selected your password when you first installed GNU/Linux and you’ve never changed it. Maybe you don’t even know how to change it. Today I’ll show you how to change your password from the command line.
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My MSI Wind netbook uses a Ralink RT2700E wireless card for WiFi connectivity. The following are the steps I performed to get it working properly with Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.
Continue reading Wireless Internet On The MSI Wind With Ubuntu 11.04In my job as a mechanical engineer, I work with large text files for finite element analysis models. I sometimes have to run several iterations to evaluate different design proposals and I need to check my models against the baseline to make sure that only the intended changes are included. The tool I use to …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Compare Files With diffOne of the older posts on this site shows how to resample MP3 files on Linux with LAME. One of the problems with that process is that the MP3 tags are not maintained when resampling, so I had to work around the issue by copying certain tags from the original files to the new files. …
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There are times when editing or viewing text files that it can be handy to display line numbers for the file on which you’re working. In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how to show line numbers in Vim/vi/gVim.
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