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Monthly Archives: April 2009

How to create shortcuts on Gnome desktop

April 27, 2009 – 6:51 pm

Shortcuts on Linux is known as soft links and traditionally, this can be achieved by using the “ln –s” command and option.  You can also achieve this on the Gnome desktop using the mouse only.  However, unlike the Windows way to create a shortcut where you right click on the folder/file and near the bottom [...]

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How to mount NFS Filesystems at Boot Time

April 22, 2009 – 5:42 am

Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984. With NFS, clients can mount filesystems across the network that are being offered by NFS servers and can work with them as if they were filesystems mounted from local disks. NFS is a simple and widely used method [...]

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Taking screenshots in SuSE

April 19, 2009 – 10:51 pm

SuSE Enterprise Linux Server comes with this simple yet effective tool to assist you to take screenshots.  This is basically the same as using the “Print Screen” button and it can also be used to take a shot of the windows only, like using “Alt-Print Screen”.

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Using redirections: 2>&1 (Part 2 of 2)

April 19, 2009 – 10:21 pm

If you go through enough shell scripts, you will notice the frequent use of 2>&1.  What does it mean and how it works? We have briefly introduced standard in (stdin) and standard out (stdout).  In the command line interface and also in shell programming, these are represented as follows: 0 Standard In (STDIN) 1 Standard [...]

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Using redirections; <, >, >> (Part 1 of 2)

April 19, 2009 – 9:51 pm

Redirections can be sometimes confusing to learn and utilize effectively.  We will try to explain it in the simplest possible way that we think is effective.  Please feel free to suggests a better approach to explaining it. Firstly, the 3 basic redirections. < ; this less than symbol is to instruct the shell to read [...]

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