I’ve been getting some pretty technical questions these days - questions that I’m just not smart enough to answer. I had a brilliant (I think) idea to handle those questions, though. Rather than sending back a “Duh..I dunno” response, I thought I’d tap into the obvious expertise of my readers. For a “New” Linux user […]
We’ve covered off how to see what other users are on your machine right now by using the who command, but how can you see who has been on your machine, but now gone?
Use the last command.
jon@jon:~$ last
jon :0 […]
I was surprised to see an article on Email Battles today that shows the rise on Firefox usage looks like it’s actually being driven by Windows users. I was under the impression that IE still dominated the Windows desktop market by virtue of being pre-installed.
Email Battles stats show that 34% of their visitors use an […]
Off with the instructional hat and on with the philosophical one.
I’ve spent 10 months or so working in the new Linux user space now, and over that time I’ve probably learned more than I’ve taught. I won’t go into a long list of everything I’ve learned, but one thing stands out above all. The fact […]
Business Linux certainly isn’t a topic that I get into very often. I’m taking a stab at it this week as a guest blogger on ITechTips. Colbert Low of b5’s The Gadget Blog and Know More Media’s ITech Tips is letting some of us riff-raff guest blog on ITechTips.
Take a wander over to ITech Tips […]
I recently recorded a video over at The Linux Learning Station on using iwconfig, ifconfig, and dhclient to bring up a wireless network card. The process in the video is the process that I’ve always followed because, thankfully, both my PCMCIA cards are usually recognized by most distros.
My process basically involves setting the essid and […]
Disclosure: The Linux Learning Station is my personal project.
I’ve just opened up The Linux Learning Station. What is it? Well, it’s like New Linux User but with videos. I figure I can write a thousand lines on how to use iwconfig or how to edit the /etc/fstab file, but a quick two-minute video will get […]
This information is widely available on the Gizmo Project website, but I’ve seen a lot of queries being run on New Linux User for this type of information. So here it is!
Background: I find that the easiest way to think of Gizmo is to compare it to Skype. Gizmo is an Instant Messaging client and […]
GNU/Linux steps through a series of runlevels when booting up. The two most common runlevels are 3 and 5. Runlevel 3 is the command-line and runlevel 5 is the full GUI interface.
There are times when it would be nice to just restart the current runlevel or step up to the next runlevel rather than rebooting […]
Actually, this might be the funniest post I’ve ever seen.
A user on Linux Questions doesn’t like the ‘man’ command and would rather it be ‘woman’. The LQ users show their lighter side and give her all sorts of advice on how to go about doing it and the things that might go wrong if […]
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