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