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. Linux Firewall Book Winner: Frank Q (comment #93) Learning jQuery 1.3 Book Winner: Sigurdur Jonsson (comment #133) Since there were 154 awesome comments, I generated two random numbers between [...]
January 2010
This 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. Variable which defines values which can be changed such as field separator and record separator. Variable which can be used for processing and reports such as Number of records, [...]
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 [...]
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. 1. Locate the shell executable [...]
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. Adding Shutdown / Reboot Functionality to [...]
This 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. Awk variables should begin with the letter, followed by it can consist of alpha numeric characters [...]
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. How to enter the contest All you have to do is leave a comment with your answer for the following two questions: What is your favorite UNIX Firewall Software? [...]
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 [...]