Please contribute a tip or a snappy howto

/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Posted 2008-12-04

Find all pictures
Posted 2008-12-04

Howto make a voice recording in Debian
Posted 2008-12-04

Installing Debian + Grub On A USB Stick
Posted 2008-12-04

Debian

Static linking improves security and updating
Posted 2010-02-22

Sensible boot loaders
Posted 2010-02-21

Tips for a projector
Posted 2009-10-04

Forcefully removing broken packages
Posted 2009-05-20

Suspend and LOCK!
Posted 2009-01-16

Debian re-install init.d configs
Posted 2009-01-03

Version number pain
Posted 2008-12-10

How to rotate a video
Posted 2008-12-04

Clearing space on root
Posted 2008-12-04

Testing a firewall?
Posted 2008-12-04

Installing Xfree86 4.3 SID
Posted 2008-12-04

NAT with dhcp
Posted 2008-12-04

Closing bugs
Posted 2008-12-04

Working on some packages from the Web
Posted 2008-12-04

Comparing files in directories
Posted 2008-12-04

Turn off Beeping
Posted 2008-12-04

FHS
Posted 2008-12-04

Anti-aliased fonts
Posted 2008-12-04

Screen - enhancing the power of the console
Posted 2008-12-04

Debugging core dumps
Posted 2008-12-04

Virtualisation with OpenVZ
Posted 2008-12-04

Basically using diff
Posted 2008-12-04

Spaces in filename?
Posted 2008-12-04

Killing a process by name
Posted 2008-12-04

Getting rid of .svn
Posted 2008-12-04

dhclient requesting without physical connection
Posted 2008-12-04

whois dig
Posted 2008-12-04

Sane SUDO configuration
Posted 2008-12-04

Packages from experimental
Posted 2008-12-04

Configuring POSTFIX with your ISP's smtp
Posted 2008-12-04

How to find the Debian version of an installed package
Posted 2008-12-04

Taking screenshots
Posted 2008-12-04

Finding about your Xorg display
Posted 2008-12-04

Mplayer and BBC
Posted 2008-12-04

Iceweasel DD search keyword shorcut bookmarks
Posted 2008-12-04

What package does this file belong to ?
Posted 2008-12-04

Cloning a Debian machine
Posted 2008-12-04

Check out some multimedia
Posted 2008-12-04

Using the Ion window manager notes
Posted 2008-12-04

Removing something from the runlevels
Posted 2008-12-04

Patching a debian package
Posted 2008-12-04

SMTP via SSH
Posted 2008-12-04

SSH port forwarding
Posted 2008-12-04

NFS and Subversion
Posted 2008-12-04

Configuring a directory with encryption using LVM
Posted 2008-12-04

Ping broadcast
Posted 2008-12-04

2.6 CD Burning
Posted 2008-12-04

/etc/enviroment Proxy configuration
Posted 2008-12-04

Compiling your own kernel (not recommended)
Posted 2008-12-04

Realplayer
Posted 2008-12-04

Re-logging in (for taking on new permission settings)
Posted 2008-12-04

how do I filter output for just stderr messages?
Posted 2008-12-04

Kernel modules (2.4) after copying a linux partition into a different machine
Posted 2008-12-04

C binary information
Posted 2008-12-04

Checking packages
Posted 2008-12-04

Arch Indep packages
Posted 2008-12-04

Howto tar up dot files and dirs
Posted 2008-12-04

xkill - Killing a process
Posted 2008-12-04

Exim 4 SMTP Auth
Posted 2008-12-04

Diffstat
Posted 2008-12-04

Screencasting, YouTube-y tips
Posted 2008-12-04

netstat -napt (Who's connected to me?)
Posted 2008-12-04

Version of package ?
Posted 2008-12-04

Modifying runlevels
Posted 2008-12-04

Grub Vga Framebuffer
Posted 2008-12-04

Pinning
Posted 2008-12-04

Showing friends and family GNU/Linux
Posted 2008-12-04

AWK tips
Posted 2008-12-04

Preparing a new upstream source release
Posted 2008-12-04

LVM2
Posted 2008-12-04

Running a second X server
Posted 2008-12-04

SVN homedir
Posted 2008-12-04

Getting your IP from a DHCP server
Posted 2008-12-04

Installing something in tmp or your homedir or something
Posted 2008-12-04

Fixing a package listing after a screw up with dselect
Posted 2008-12-04

Bits and Bytes
Posted 2008-12-04

TCP Port listings
Posted 2008-12-04

Runlevels.
Posted 2008-12-04

Grabbing a file from a Subversion repositry
Posted 2008-12-04

Unicode
Posted 2008-12-04

Debian Iptable Firewall
Posted 2008-12-04

Subversion gotchas
Posted 2008-12-04

Bash tips
Posted 2008-12-04

Setting timezone in Debian
Posted 2008-12-04

What was the return code of the last command?
Posted 2008-12-04

Terminus console font
Posted 2008-12-04

Resizing LVM
Posted 2008-12-04

diffing diffs
Posted 2008-12-04

Viewing a firewall
Posted 2008-12-04

Using IRSSI
Posted 2008-12-04

Backgrounding a process
Posted 2008-12-04

Time in New York? Tokyo?
Posted 2008-12-04

ps aux truncated output?
Posted 2008-12-04

Name the interface
Posted 2008-12-04

How to extend a LVM partition
Posted 2008-12-04

Installing debian without CDs or boot floppies
Posted 2008-12-04

Backing up
Posted 2008-12-04

dos2unix
Posted 2008-12-04

Library usage
Posted 2008-12-04

How to unfuck your terminal/console
Posted 2008-12-04

Better than apt-cache search
Posted 2008-12-04

Makefile for generating your CV
Posted 2008-12-04

Exim 4 Catchall
Posted 2008-12-04

KODAK DC3400 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA gphoto2
Posted 2008-12-04

Version numbers
Posted 2008-12-04

Re-mastering a CD
Posted 2008-12-04

sysctl modify kernel parameters
Posted 2008-12-04

Keeping track of changes in unstable
Posted 2008-12-04

Steps to setting a sub domain for a web service
Posted 2008-12-04

BIN-NMU
Posted 2008-12-04

Use XDM
Posted 2008-12-04

Viewing a subversion dump file
Posted 2008-12-04

Majordomo how to remove a user
Posted 2008-12-04

Disable screen blanking
Posted 2008-12-04

H4X0ring a d3b14n b0x3n
Posted 2008-12-04

Bashing carefully
Posted 2008-12-04

route add default gw
Posted 2008-12-04

Hard link vs Soft link
Posted 2008-12-04

Duplex printing - use mpage
Posted 2008-12-04

Writing CDs (Backing up your Mail)
Posted 2008-12-04

Recording console sessions
Posted 2008-12-04

hdparm
Posted 2008-12-04

Time in Ubuntu
Posted 2008-12-04

Mozilla crashing on news.bbc.co.uk ??
Posted 2008-12-04

tee
Posted 2008-12-04

Installing java
Posted 2008-12-04

Basename (removing filename extensions in BASH)
Posted 2008-12-04

How do I update grub menu.lst on kernel-image install ?
Posted 2008-12-04

Image magic with imagemagick
Posted 2008-12-04

Cat redirects
Posted 2008-12-04

What type of file is it?
Posted 2008-12-04

hdparm
Posted 2008-12-04

Passwordless logins with SSH
Posted 2008-12-04

You are working on a foreign language machine ?
Posted 2008-12-04

date fun
Posted 2008-12-04

Subversion CVS ROOT
Posted 2008-12-04

Finding additional information about a package not installed
Posted 2008-12-04

Reading USENET news
Posted 2008-12-04

Changing your window manager
Posted 2008-12-04

CVS checking/viewing differences between versions after commit
Posted 2008-12-04

Ion the window manager resizing the frame
Posted 2008-12-04

Java in Debian
Posted 2008-12-04

Managing a TODO list
Posted 2008-12-04

maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.
Posted 2008-12-04

initrd
Posted 2008-12-04

Unpacking source
Posted 2008-12-04

Use 'sudo', not 'su'
Posted 2008-12-04

Brazilian guys in Portugal
Posted 2008-12-04

etc with Subversion
Posted 2008-12-04

Configuring an external USB drive with LVM
Posted 2008-12-04

how can a setup the default keymap for console??
Posted 2008-12-04

chroot
Posted 2008-12-04

mkdir -p not mkhier
Posted 2008-12-04

What does the .in suffix in postinst.in mean?
Posted 2008-12-04

T30 2366-PM1 with Debian SID
Posted 2008-12-04

Getting the linux boot arguments
Posted 2008-12-04

Roll back to previous package ! DOWNGRADING
Posted 2008-12-04

Xsession
Posted 2008-12-04

Linux Ghost
Posted 2008-12-04

crontab job
Posted 2008-12-04

(kernel module) keeps on loading at boot time and I don't know how to blacklist it
Posted 2008-12-04

date time for file name
Posted 2008-12-04

SVN ID AUTHOR DATE information
Posted 2008-12-04

CVS importing
Posted 2008-12-04

What does a symlink point to? (symbolic links)
Posted 2008-12-04

bash prompt
Posted 2008-12-04

using gnu tar reference
Posted 2008-12-04

Grepping
Posted 2008-12-04

Sendmail mail when back online
Posted 2008-12-04

Official Debian Tips
Posted 2008-12-04

Script Movies
Posted 2008-12-04

USB stick automount
Posted 2008-12-04

Standards versions diff
Posted 2008-12-04

Reading a man page
Posted 2008-12-04

Finding out which repository the package comes from
Posted 2008-12-04

Debian man pages
Posted 2008-12-04

What is the command to change password?
Posted 2008-12-04

Configuring Firefox as the default Web browser
Posted 2008-12-04

Enscript
Posted 2008-12-04

lsof
Posted 2008-12-04

mutt - my Email client

Getting rid of duplicates
Posted 2008-12-04

My censored .muttrc
Posted 2008-12-04

Emailing pictures
Posted 2008-12-04

.mailcap
Posted 2008-12-04

Forwarding mail to another account
Posted 2008-12-04

Merging maildirs
Posted 2008-12-04

Exim4 Etch Configuration
Posted 2008-12-04

Maildrop: Forwarding emails
Posted 2008-12-04

Searching mail
Posted 2008-12-04

Mark all mail read
Posted 2008-12-04

c shortcuts
Posted 2008-12-04

Saving messages in IMAP
Posted 2008-12-04

Getting rid of frozen messages
Posted 2008-12-04

Debugging mutt
Posted 2008-12-04

Reading attachments (God forbid)
Posted 2008-12-04

Trick for subscribing to a mailing list
Posted 2008-12-04

Vim text width
Posted 2008-12-04

Edit messages properly
Posted 2008-12-04

GPG - Gnu Privacy Guard, to sign and encrypt

Getting started
Posted 2008-12-04

Make a revocation certificate, in case your key is jeopardized, like your forgot your passphrase :)
Posted 2008-12-04

Debian keysigning
Posted 2008-12-04

The Web

Counting code examples out of BONDI widlprocxml
Posted 2010-03-09

WebIDL function names
Posted 2009-09-08

Default bugzilla severity priority
Posted 2009-09-04

Adding versions to Bugzilla
Posted 2009-09-04

Debian feed
Posted 2008-12-04

Mapping URLs to the FS
Posted 2008-12-04

Mozex VIM textarea editing
Posted 2008-12-04

Bad News
Posted 2008-12-04

update-alternatives x-www-browser
Posted 2008-12-04

Editing HTML5 in vim
Posted 2008-12-04

HTML is the API
Posted 2008-12-04

Grepping a URL
Posted 2008-12-04

Why not HTML?
Posted 2008-12-04

Unicode UTF-8
Posted 2008-12-04

Disable caching in Apache2
Posted 2008-12-04

XML on the Web has failed.
Posted 2008-12-04

Shell CGI
Posted 2008-12-04

Chrome, wine and Debian
Posted 2008-12-04

Unpractial Specs from the W3C
Posted 2008-12-04

Mozilla Type Ahead Find
Posted 2008-12-04

Accessibility = disability
Posted 2008-12-04

An XHTML or a XHTML ?
Posted 2008-12-04

Unicode in PHP
Posted 2008-12-04

Mozilla and Subversion
Posted 2008-12-04

Disable an extension in Iceweasel/Firefox
Posted 2008-12-04

SVG sucks
Posted 2008-12-04

Apache2 Vhost logging
Posted 2008-12-04

PDF
Posted 2008-12-04

Some soup sir?
Posted 2008-12-04

Mozilla forms
Posted 2008-12-04

Copy, Paste, Cut
Posted 2008-12-04

javascript var scope
Posted 2008-12-04

Web applications with Mozilla
Posted 2008-12-04

Escaping and quoting best practices for PHP
Posted 2008-12-04

POST forms into Get forms
Posted 2008-12-04

Keywords
Posted 2008-12-04

How to make web pages properly
Posted 2008-12-04

Selecting the first H1
Posted 2008-12-04

Apache 2 Vhost
Posted 2008-12-04

Web stats are useless
Posted 2008-12-04

Rails, Debian and gem
Posted 2008-12-04

Shorcuts in Mozilla
Posted 2008-12-04

Browser security
Posted 2008-12-04

Mobitopia
Posted 2008-12-04

Encode your email address to protect yourself from spam bots
Posted 2008-12-04

Licensing
Posted 2008-12-04

Addressbook standard
Posted 2008-12-04

WHAT
Posted 2008-12-04

Wordpress password mysql
Posted 2008-12-04

Webstats
Posted 2008-12-04

Dogma
Posted 2008-12-04

Arguments

Normative, Idiomatic, Canonical
Posted 2009-11-18

Bad X-ray
Posted 2009-01-11

Dreams
Posted 2008-12-04

Sales procedure - Need, Feature, Benefit
Posted 2008-12-04

Lesscode!
Posted 2008-12-04

Lets believe a clueless analyst
Posted 2008-12-04

Finnish ALCOHOL TAXATION
Posted 2008-12-04

Religions can be damaging
Posted 2008-12-04

Radical Simplicity
Posted 2008-12-04

Anonymity
Posted 2008-12-04

Politicians
Posted 2008-12-04

RAID sucks
Posted 2008-12-04

Python as a teaching language
Posted 2008-12-04

Digital Media
Posted 2008-12-04

DRM
Posted 2008-12-04

Copywrongs
Posted 2008-12-04

Standards
Posted 2008-12-04

Compare and contrasting
Posted 2008-12-04

KP Child / Kiddie Pornography
Posted 2008-12-04

Internet over powerlines
Posted 2008-12-04

Selling free software
Posted 2008-12-04

Gmail
Posted 2008-12-04

Civil liberties
Posted 2008-12-04

1 in 3 people in South Africa die of AIDS
Posted 2008-12-04

Quotes
Posted 2008-12-04

NO to the de-facto monopoly Microsoft
Posted 2008-12-04

Certification bodies
Posted 2008-12-04

Powerpoint SUCKS
Posted 2008-12-04

There is NO GOD
Posted 2008-12-04

Fire and Motion
Posted 2008-12-04

Credit Card security
Posted 2008-12-04

Comparing modes of working communication
Posted 2008-12-04

Free markets
Posted 2008-12-04

Writing letters
Posted 2008-12-04

Leadership
Posted 2008-12-04

Free software in Education / Schools
Posted 2008-12-04

IP
Posted 2008-12-04

Bill Gates will solve spam
Posted 2008-12-04

For EU
Posted 2008-12-04

Scientific Writing
Posted 2008-12-04

Python

Parsing XML root attributes
Posted 2009-05-27

Joining a list of strings, or ints
Posted 2008-12-04

Dropping into the interpreter after an ERROR to debug
Posted 2008-12-04

Am I running PyXML?
Posted 2008-12-04

StripoGram - use strings
Posted 2008-12-04

String contains - Python2.3
Posted 2008-12-04

Adding lists
Posted 2008-12-04

Running other programs
Posted 2008-12-04

importing modules
Posted 2008-12-04

Parsing XML for the text/cdata between a particular start/end tag
Posted 2008-12-04

Fixing tabs? Use reindent.py
Posted 2008-12-04

PYTHONPATH in script
Posted 2008-12-04

Parsing strings into dicts
Posted 2008-12-04

Normalizing whitespace
Posted 2008-12-04

None is null in python
Posted 2008-12-04

Inserting values into HTML output
Posted 2008-12-04

Constructing and then Printing/Writing a simple XML file with dom
Posted 2008-12-04

VIM settings for proper style
Posted 2008-12-04

Parsing HTML with REs
Posted 2008-12-04

Class customization
Posted 2008-12-04

Unique elements from a list
Posted 2008-12-04

Template
Posted 2008-12-04

Recursive file tree add thing
Posted 2008-12-04

Write now!
Posted 2008-12-04

Mapping Types = dict
Posted 2008-12-04

Regular Expressions
Posted 2008-12-04

Installing XML-SIG package as a user
Posted 2008-12-04

repr
Posted 2008-12-04

Infrequently asked questions
Posted 2008-12-04

Umask, permissions in newly created files
Posted 2008-12-04

Counting lines in a file
Posted 2008-12-04

Sorting dictionaries (code example)
Posted 2008-12-04

Urllib
Posted 2008-12-04

Zip
Posted 2008-12-04

Printing attributes of a class
Posted 2008-12-04

How would one read line (x) from a file?
Posted 2008-12-04

Bayes
Posted 2008-12-04

Type checking or Object type comparisons
Posted 2008-12-04

Traversing minidom's tree (Parsing XML to text)
Posted 2008-12-04

Iterating through two (equal) lists
Posted 2008-12-04

Debugging trick
Posted 2008-12-04

Quick reference
Posted 2008-12-04

r+ (appending) and pickle do not mix!
Posted 2008-12-04

Parsing tag soup
Posted 2008-12-04

Ordered list union
Posted 2008-12-04

Refactoring perl ;) STDIN STDOUT Example
Posted 2008-12-04

List sorting (DSU?)
Posted 2008-12-04

Not using readlines (save memory)
Posted 2008-12-04

Printing your enviroment settings
Posted 2008-12-04

Passing arguments
Posted 2008-12-04

Copy a list !
Posted 2008-12-04

Fiddling with PYTHONPATH in bash
Posted 2008-12-04

How do I determine whether a string is of letter characters or digits?
Posted 2008-12-04

Unitesting (simple example)
Posted 2008-12-04

for i in range(len(li)): BAD
Posted 2008-12-04

Regex XML
Posted 2008-12-04

Installing libraries into your $HOME
Posted 2008-12-04

Finding the key to a value
Posted 2008-12-04

Using sub re groups as arguments in functions
Posted 2008-12-04

Returning first word on a line in a file by line number example
Posted 2008-12-04

PyGTK
Posted 2008-12-04

Passwords
Posted 2008-12-04

Setting/initializing a list of certain length
Posted 2008-12-04

Try use cPickle, it is faster
Posted 2008-12-04

Running nevow/twistd on a vhost
Posted 2008-12-04

how do I call a function in my class?
Posted 2008-12-04

Return, do not print
Posted 2008-12-04

Organizing libs for your project
Posted 2008-12-04

Setting list values
Posted 2008-12-04

Reading input / user interaction
Posted 2008-12-04

VIM - my editor of choice

How do I configure VIM to resume editing where I was last editing in a file, saved and quit?
Posted 2008-12-04

Byte code!
Posted 2008-12-04

Inserting UNICODE
Posted 2008-12-04

Searching and Replacing
Posted 2008-12-04

Merging differences
Posted 2008-12-04

Literal Char
Posted 2008-12-04

Commenting certain lines
Posted 2008-12-04

Latex
Posted 2008-12-04

vim7's tabs
Posted 2008-12-04

vim7's auto-completion features
Posted 2008-12-04

Cleaning whitespace
Posted 2008-12-04

FAQ
Posted 2008-12-04

Undoing and bouncing between changes
Posted 2008-12-04

Searching short variable names
Posted 2008-12-04

Search and replace
Posted 2008-12-04

New lines in VIM
Posted 2008-12-04

Inserting a Unicode character in VIM
Posted 2008-12-04

The book
Posted 2008-12-04

vim7's spelling features
Posted 2008-12-04

Wordcount
Posted 2008-12-04

Make development cycles in C/C++
Posted 2008-12-04

Learn like IRC
Posted 2008-12-04

Python
Posted 2008-12-04

Spanish
Posted 2008-12-04

Formatting text
Posted 2008-12-04

XML
Posted 2008-12-04

Editing two files
Posted 2008-12-04

Outputting VIM buffer as HTML
Posted 2008-12-04

Hardware

Testing BT ADSL
Posted 2009-05-29

Floppy disks should have a WARNING on them
Posted 2008-12-04

Optical mice need cleaning too
Posted 2008-12-04

Use Memtest86 and badblocks to test a computer
Posted 2008-12-04

Source Control SCM

Cherry picking git commits from another branch
Posted 2009-08-09

Git tips from work
Posted 2008-12-13

Checking mirrors in SVK
Posted 2008-12-04

Tracking another branch of a project with GIT
Posted 2008-12-04

Revert a change in CVS
Posted 2008-12-04

Finding .svn
Posted 2008-12-04

Howto send a PATCH from git
Posted 2008-12-04

cvs release in Subversion?
Posted 2008-12-04

SVK notes
Posted 2008-12-04

Unpatch a patch
Posted 2008-12-04

Merging changes from your HEAD branch to your other branches
Posted 2008-12-04

Cherry pick a change in SVN
Posted 2008-12-04

Diff to head of trunk
Posted 2008-12-04

I am on changes X and I want to roll back to X-1 for testing
Posted 2008-12-04

Git CVS tutorial
Posted 2008-12-04

SVK: Missing file
Posted 2008-12-04

Reverting with Subversion
Posted 2008-12-04

Building Subversion in your $HOME
Posted 2008-12-04

Accidental deletion
Posted 2008-12-04

Latex

Links
Posted 2008-12-04

Biblography tips
Posted 2008-12-04

TODO list
Posted 2008-12-04

Roman enumeration
Posted 2008-12-04

Online resources
Posted 2008-12-04

Letters
Posted 2008-12-04

Latin1 Characters
Posted 2008-12-04

R

Sorting a table
Posted 2008-12-04

Pipe
Posted 2008-12-04

Histogram
Posted 2008-12-04

Barplot
Posted 2008-12-04

Red Hat

User limits
Posted 2008-12-04

CentOS
Posted 2008-12-04

Listing files in an RPM
Posted 2008-12-04

Installing from CDs using the console
Posted 2008-12-04

SELinux
Posted 2008-12-04

Silly security with TCP wrappers hosts.allow
Posted 2008-12-04

Firewall
Posted 2008-12-04

Bash and shell

Using shell instead of awk for printing columns
Posted 2010-07-09

Exit Makefile on error
Posted 2010-07-06

Writing shell scripts that suckless
Posted 2009-12-12

Sort by column
Posted 2009-11-22

Do not use GNU find when recursion is not needed
Posted 2009-11-11

Using CSV values to insert text
Posted 2009-10-21

Updating a version number for a release
Posted 2009-10-12

Parsing a comma seperated file with shell
Posted 2009-09-24

Converting XML to CSV
Posted 2009-08-23

Progress bar for dd
Posted 2008-12-04

ISO8601 a file
Posted 2008-12-04

Adding a column of floats
Posted 2008-12-04

Viewing certain pictures
Posted 2008-12-04

Backspace
Posted 2008-12-04

Removing characters
Posted 2008-12-04

Checking a variable is set
Posted 2008-12-04

Bash YES/NO prompt interaction
Posted 2008-12-04

Deleting french movies with spaces
Posted 2008-12-04

Listing directory size
Posted 2008-12-04

Testing VARs
Posted 2008-12-04

split
Posted 2008-12-04

find tips
Posted 2008-12-04

Shell cat END
Posted 2008-12-04

find and copy
Posted 2008-12-04

Case insentitive basename
Posted 2008-12-04

Testing for root in POSIX shell
Posted 2008-12-04

Getting port numbers out of /etc/service
Posted 2008-12-04

Turning off option parsing
Posted 2008-12-04

Testing a file exists
Posted 2008-12-04

Sed in place editing
Posted 2008-12-04

Count to ten
Posted 2008-12-04

Source line count
Posted 2008-12-04

First character of a variable in shell
Posted 2008-12-04

All tips are in the public domain