January 2010

2 Books Giveaway Winners: Linux Firewall and Learning jQuery 1.3

by Ramesh Natarajan on January 29, 2010

I’m happy to announce winners of the 2 books giveaway contest.

Following are randomly selected winners, who will receive the corresponding PDF version of the book.
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8 Powerful Awk Built-in Variables – FS, OFS, RS, ORS, NR, NF, FILENAME, FNR

by Sasikala on January 27, 2010

Linux Awk Tutorial - Awk Built-in Variables ExamplesThis article is part of the on-going Awk Tutorial Examples series. Awk has several powerful built-in variables. There are two types of built-in variables in Awk.

  1. Variable which defines values which can be changed such as field separator and record separator.
  2. Variable which can be used for processing and reports such as Number of records, number of fields.

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Gone in 60 Seconds – Find Disappeared Internet Pages

by Ramesh Natarajan on January 25, 2010

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While internet is not as smart as Angelina Jolie to make a website or a webpage disappear in 60 seconds, it still somehow manages to make some of the webpages disappear after a while.

When you come across something interesting over the internet, you may either bookmark it locally or in a social bookmarking site for later use. I’m sure several times you might have seen one of those websites in your bookmark just disappears.

In this article, let us review few methods on how to find a website or a webpage that you’ve bookmarked disappears from the internet.
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Shell Script Execution Guidelines for Newbies

by Ramesh Natarajan on January 22, 2010

Question: What are the basic fundamental things I should know to execute a shell script? Also, when I execute my shell script I get “Permission denied” error message. How do I fix it?

Answer: Let us review the 4 basic fundamental things you should know about executing a shell script.

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How To Add Shutdown / Reboot Functionality to Fluxbox Window Manager for X

by Leonardo Sanchez on January 22, 2010

Question: How do I add shutdown / Reboot functionality to the fluxbox window manager? Can you explain to me with clear examples?

Answer: In our previous article we gave an introduction to the fluxbox. In this article, let us review how to add shutdown or reboot functionality to fluxbox.

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Awk Tutorial: Understand Awk Variables with 3 Practical Examples

by Sasikala on January 20, 2010

Linux Awk Tutorial - User-defined and Built-in Awk VariablesThis article is part of the on-going Awk Tutorial and Examples series. Like any other programming languages, Awk also has user defined variables and built-in variables.

In this article let us review how to define and use awk variables.
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2 Books Giveaway: Linux Firewall and Learning jQuery 1.3

by Ramesh Natarajan on January 18, 2010

I’m happy to announce book giveaway contest, where you can win PDF version of one of the two books — Linux Firewall or Learning jQuery 1.3.
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Flexible for a Fluxbox? – Lightweight X Window Manager for UNIX / Linux

by Leonardo Sanchez on January 15, 2010

One of the many great things about using UNIX or a UNIX-like operating system is the ability to tailor your environment to your liking. If you want a full-fledged GUI with all the bells and whistles then Gnome, KDE, or LXDE are probably for you.

But, if you want something less resource intensive that offers a greater degree of control then Fluxbox Window Manager is what you’re looking for.

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