3 Days of Networking Troubleshooting – Day 2: Hand building a wired connection with and without DHCP support
Most Linux distros today will automatically configure your network as soon as you boot, more often than not, even while
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3 Days of Networking Troubleshooting – Day 1: Hardware, Modules and the Network Subsystem
Most Linux distros today will automatically configure your network as soon as you boot. Indeed, most will set up networking
Read moreFreedom in a Box: What to look for in a Truly Free Laptop
If you like your computers with an extra dash of Freedom, Libiquity and Ministry of Freedom have something you may
Read moreCLI Quickies (II): Fiddling with Sound
The same way you can use the GNU/Linux command line to troubleshoot the brightness of your laptop backlight, it is
Read moreEnliven Videos with Kdenlive
The Kdenlive video editor is simple for beginners, but also powerful enough for those that need to go that extra
Read moreJonathan Riddell (Kubuntu) demands your hugs
Jonathan Riddell, the main developer of Kubuntu (and of large chunks of Ubuntu) has scaled up his personal war on
Read moreMonitoring File Access for Dummies
Say you work for Mashley Faddison, an online dating site which handles sensitive user information. Say you suspect somebody is
Read moreNo, Munich is not considering ditching Linux and going back to Windows
This “story” surfaces every several months and, for some reason I always fail to fathom, everybody starts parroting it. It
Read moreScript-Fu: Converting PDFs to (pretty) Previews with ImageMagick
Say you publish articles, or books, or pamphlets. Say a lot of your work is tied up in hefty PDFs
Read moreScript-Fu: (Image)Magickal Powers
ImageMagick is the Swiss army knife of the command-line image-processing world. The array of tools it provides, combined with the
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