I’m sure we’ve all heard the dire warnings against logging on to a GNU/Linux box as the root user to perform routine computing tasks. But why? It’s my computer, shouldn’t I be able to do anything I want without having to switch to the root account?
Yes, you should. However, if you run as root regularly […]
You may remember a while ago several of our listeners of our GNU/Linux User Show got together and pooled together enough money to adopt a penguin from the Penguin Foundation down in Australia.
Well, today we got our picture and accompanying letter. I’m sure we’re the first GNU/Linux show to have a real, live freakin’ […]
Ifconfig is probably short for ‘interface configuration’ since its primary use is to manipulate your network interfaces. For all intents and purposes, a network interface is a network card, so I’m just going to call them network cards.
From the ifconfig man page:
Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces. […]
ZDnet is reporting a Linux virus this morning. Since there are so few Linux virii out there in the wild, I immediately get suspicious when I hear of one. I investigated this virus and here are my thoughts on it:
First off, while everyone is indeed calling this a Linux virus, I must disagree.
The vulnerabilities that […]
I’m not going to pretend that this is some be all and end all list. In fact, this list is quite small. I’m sure there are many worthy sites out there dealing with beginner GNU/Linux information that I’m going to miss - but here’s the short list of places that I go when looking for […]
Where did that pesky application install itself? If you’re like me, you’ve lost your fair share of files over time. Whenever I can’t find something, I use one of three utilities: find, locate, and whereis.
Find
Probably the most reliable, but slowest, way to find a file is to use the find command. At its simplest, the […]
Reader Geoff recenty had the opportunity to play with the alias command. It all started with a desire to get aterm running with a bunch of command line switches. Obviously, typing a long string of switches into the command line gets pretty tedious after a while, so it’s natural to want to shorten that up.
The […]
I recently wrote a quick entry about using alien to install OpenOffice.org v2.0 on my Debian box.
If you’d like more information, I also wrote an article over on Really Linux that explains the installation in more detail. If you’re staring at 26 rpm files wondering how you’re going to install them, you might be […]
While installing OpenOffice.org 2.0 today I had the opportunity to run across an application named alien. OOo is only available in rpm format and I run a Debian machine. Alien allowed me to install those RPMs on my Debian box.
From the man alien command:
alien is a program that converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, […]
While malware, spyware, and virii aren’t generally problems for GNU/Linux users, there’s always some residual paranoia when moving over from Windows. Until you become comfortable enough with your system, it’s natural to want to know if someone has ssh’d or telnetted in to your system.
The quickest way to tell who’s on your system at any […]
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