The latest version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system was released today; Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. The popularity of Ubuntu usually means that the download servers have difficulty keeping up with the high demand of release days, so I’m here with a list of torrents and download mirrors so you can get on with your …
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In this post I’m going to show how to send an email from the Linux command line through your Gmail account. This can be handy if you’re a command line junkie. The real power, however, is in being able to send an email automatically from a script. I’ll be doing another post where I use …
Continue reading Send Gmail from the Linux Command LineThere 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.
Continue reading Block Inserting and Deleting Text in VIMHandBrake 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.
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