From cyberciti.biz This tutorial is a beginners handbook for new Linux users / Sys admins and school students studying Linux or computer science. This book is licensed under “Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported”. You can download a PDF version by visiting this url.

From O’Reilly’s “UNIX Power Tools” Creating a file named -i will prevent an errant rm -rf * from wiping out the directory containing it. How? The * expands -i to your command line, and your rm -rf * becomes rm -rf -i *! See it in action: cd test/ touch — -i touch 1 2…

if you need to make an edit to a file on a remote server simply vim scp://hostname.example.com//path/to/file.txt (will require username on remote host to be the same as what you have on screen) [email protected]’s password: (enter pw) Press ENTER or type command to continue (hit enter, file opens, make edits, then save and close) :wq…

if you need to make an edit to a file on a remote server simply vim scp://hostname.example.com//path/to/file.txt (will require username on remote host to be the same as what you have on screen) [email protected]’s password: (enter pw) Press ENTER or type command to continue (hit enter, file opens, make edits, then save and close) :wq…

From http://zapatopi.net/mindguard/ MindGuard is a program for Amiga and Linux computers that protects your mind by actively jamming and/or scrambling psychotronic mind-control signals and removing harmful engrammic pollutants from your brain. It also has the ability to scan for and decipher into English specific signals so you can see exactly Who wants to control you…

Simply point your browser to the following link; http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/its-a-trap.html and you should get the default error message; Reported Web Forgery! This web page at www.mozilla.com has been reported as a web forgery and has been blocked based on your security preferences. Web forgeries are designed to trick you into revealing personal or financial information by…

There are 2 basic ways to modify a dns zone file, from the command line or from WHM via Main >> DNS Functions >> Edit DNS Zone. What happens if you have five hundred domains on a server and want to migrate them all to a new shared IP address? Do you spend the next…

From http://ftacademy.org * Authors: Remo Suppi Boldrito, Josep Jorba Esteve * Coordinator: Josep Jorba Esteve * Licenses: GNU Free Documentation License, Creative Commons Attribute ShareAlike License * Information: 545 Pages; 18.8 Mb The GNU/Linux systems have reached an important level of maturity, allowing to integrate them in almost any kind of work environment, from a…

Linux Foundation Launches Free Training Webinar Series to Meet Growing Demand for Linux Professionals Starting in March, The Linux Foundation will be offering free Linux Training webinars taught by well-known Linux developers directly building on their own experience. This is an excellent opportunity to learn directly from key developers and to experience a sample of…

Install directions from here and modified to fit my install: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#selfextracting (I started in the root folder – /root ) wget http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=37391 mv jre-6u18-linux-i586.bin\?AuthParam\=1265088166_628f3dd35822fc3493e468ca17791e5c\&GroupName\=JSC\&FilePath\=%2FESD6%2FJSCDL%2Fjdk%2F6u18-b07%2Fjre-6u18-linux-i586.bin\&File\=jre-6u18-linux-i586.bin\&BHost\=javadl.sun.com jre-6u18-linux-i586.bin chmod a+x jre-6u18-linux-i586.bin ./jre-6u18-linux-i586.bin answer yes to license agreement When the installation has completed, you will see the word Done. Creating jre1.6.0_18/lib/rt.jar Creating jre1.6.0_18/lib/jsse.jar Creating jre1.6.0_18/lib/charsets.jar Creating jre1.6.0_18/lib/ext/localedata.jar Creating jre1.6.0_18/lib/plugin.jar…