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- Pelikoira, on 11/05/2008, -5/+80I WANT TO KILL CREATOR OF MULTIPAGE WEBSITES!
- MtheoryX, on 11/05/2008, -3/+42Pardon the huge post...but here you go, links maintained:
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1. Linux speaks your instant messaging dialect.
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20916/1141/ )
I kicked off tackling instant messaging, or IM. This has fast become a popular means of communication among friends, social groups, even co-workers.
You get the ability to send short messages without having to fire up an e-mail client and best of all you have presence awareness: you can see if your buddies are online or not.
Here’s where Pidgin comes in. This product is an IM client, but it’s not an ordinary one.
Here ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20916/1141/ ) is why, as well as where to find Pidgin and make it work for you.
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2. Adding a new hard disk to Linux, and why the Linux filesystem trounces Windows' butt
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20943/1141/ )
Adding a second (or third or more!) hard drive to your computer is a great way to give your computer more disk space. Ok, that’s pretty obvious – adding disk space gives you more disk space – duhh – but it’s easier to say than do.
Once you’ve plugged the hard drive in to your computer here ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20943/1141/ ) is what to do to get Linux to recognise it.
Plus, I also tell you something that the Linux filesystem does brilliantly which Windows can’t do at all. Ok, it makes a half-hearted attempt but fails dismally. After all, how much have you ever really heard about "junction points" in Windows?
I really don’t want to sound like a manic gloater here, but you must read all about it. The Linux filesystem hierarchy has it all over Windows for sheer user transparency to disk management.
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3. Build better blogs with Linux
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20963/1141/ )
Chances are you have some sort of web site. Linux has a rich history of text processing which can be used to turbo-boost your blogs. In fact, blogging goes to Linux like a hand to a glove.
Here ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20963/1141/ ) are some Linux commands to get better visitor stats and to help render image-laden web pages faster.
Nine more to come, including how Linux can look after your health.
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4. Quit smoking and other ways to keep healthy with Linux
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20989/1141/ )
Ah, Linux! Is there anything it can't do? Not only can you surf the Internet, write documents and calculate taxes, here's how Linux also wants to look after your health and well-being, including getting you off cigarettes and avoiding repetitive strain injury (RSI.)
There’s a bit of a trick to the quitting smoking, but here ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20989/1141/ ) is the true story of how Linux helped a lady I know. Meanwhile, the software to help avoid RSI is definitely worth looking at.
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5. Smack, crack, hack and track any network with Linux (not Windows)
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20993/1141/ )
Ok, a bit more of Windows bashing here, but it has to be said. The best network “auditing” (and by “auditing” I mean “snooping”) tools are to be found on Linux.
In fact, the very technology underpinning the Internet – TCP/IP – came to life in the world of UNIX. That Johnny-come-lately, Windows, won’t let you audit networks to the extent Linux can. Here’s ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20993/1141/ ) why.
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6. Watch TV with Linux
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21012/1141/ )
In our modern, and busy, world the separation between home computers and home entertainment systems is fast fading. Linux makes it a cinch to build your own PVR, allowing you to watch, pause and record live TV broadcasts.
Here ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21012/1141/ ) are some terrific free and open source TV apps for Linux.
Six down, and six more to come! The next four all focus on giving Linux a dramatic face lift! Coming after that the brand new Linux time-saver that everyone can use.
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7. The joy of X – master the Linux GUI
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21102/1141/ )
Now, chances are you’ve heard of GNOME and KDE. These two popular desktop environments are really the pinnacle of a deep iceberg of technology with the X-Windows graphical interface underpinning it all.
Here ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21102/1141/ ) is an overview of what X is, plus a couple of ways to tame it.
This really is the kicking off point for a journey of unlimited ability to change the Linux look-and-feel. In fact it leads us right onto ...
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8. Linux incognito part one: the Leopard
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21241/1141/ )
One commonly-stated barrier to Linux adoption is that it looks different to the regular computer environment people are used to.
Yet, one of the strengths of Linux over other operating systems is that its user interface can be totally replaced to suit any occasion. Here ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21241/1141/ ) is how to trick it out like MacOS's Leopard, and trick your friends.
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9. Linux incognito part two: Windows XP
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21340/1141/ )
For an awful lot of people their first encounter with a computer will invariably be Microsoft Windows. This straight away creates a barrier against considering alternate operating systems because they look different to what the user has been accustomed to.
Following on from the above, here ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21340/1141/ ) is how to paint a Windows facade over Linux and remove that obstacle.
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10. Linux incognito part three: Windows Vista
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21370/1141/ )
Here's how to skin Linux to give a Windows Vista appearance. You can help provide a familiar look and feel to your Windows-trained friends and family as you coax them towards Linux. Or you can enjoy the satisfaction of having something looking like Vista actually run with stability.
Read about it here ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21370/1141/ ).
Two more, including one never
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11. Give your old PowerPC Mac a new lease of life with Ubuntu Linux
( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21406/1141/ )
Windows Vista gets a bad rap for its hefty hardware requirements, but it's not alone. Apple's MacOS X platform has left a lot of Macs with PowerPC G3 and G4 chips (and possibly some G5 machines too) out in the cold.
However, Linux isn't just for the Intel set; here’s ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21406/1141/ ) how Ubuntu to can bring new life to your old Mac too.
What's more, Ubuntu 8.10 has just been released within the last week. Your old Mac can now be going out dressed in brand spanking new duds.
And now for the final, brand new, tip.
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12. Do anything by right-clicking
The right-click action is a pretty familiar concept across any operating system (even MacOS, though it’s not so much a right mouse button click.) Right-clicking on a file will let you open it, and possibly print it or perform other actions.
Imagine if you could do absolutely anything you liked by right-clicking a file. If you right-click on an image, perhaps a menu option might be to enhance it or to resize it.
Under Microsoft Windows it’s not an easy task to add new right-click options. Programs like WinZip and Adobe Acrobat achieve it but the ordinary user can’t just make up new actions to their heart’s desire.
Yet, under the Nautilus file manager, as used by Ubuntu, this is dead simple. First, install the package nautilus-actions either by apt-get or System / Add Software.
Once this is installed you will have new options available under System / Preferences. Here you can add an unlimited amount of custom actions based on specific file extensions. This means you may create actions specific to GIF images by requiring the .gif file extension, for example. Each matching action you create will appear in the pop-up menu when right-clicking a file.
As always, the open source community is obliging to help. You’ll find loads of useful actions ( http://www.grumz.net/index.php?q=configlist ) online ready to import into Nautilus. Some examples permit you to install True Type Fonts (.ttf files) into Gnome, optimise PNG images, mass rename files, merge many PDF files into one, convert video formats into others, construct ISO images, extract programs, icons or other elements from executables, e-mail thumbnails of images and on and on and on.
If you can imagine it then it can be done. In fact maybe it’s already been done and you just need to import. You can search online for cover art for your music collections, identify the differences between two documents, send items via Bluetooth and so much more.
“I didn’t know you could do that in Linux,” you say. And chances are if you’ve been weaned on Windows you’d been conditioned that you just don’t get flexibility and customisation like this.
Yet, Linux is powerful and it’s ready to serve you. If you’re a Linux user hopefully something here will help you get better use and enjoyment out of this operating system. If you’re not a Linux user hopefully you’re inspired to check it out.
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End transmission. - rgrcabbage, on 11/05/2008, -4/+42Some great tips but I hate sites in which you have to click through 12 slow loading pages to see the information that could be displayed on one or two well thought-out pages instead.
- 10goto10, on 11/05/2008, -2/+23without good reason
- 10goto10, on 11/05/2008, -2/+22is ***** annoying.
- 10goto10, on 11/05/2008, -2/+22in small parts
- Onestone, on 11/06/2008, -1/+18sudo killall -9 multipage_websites_creator
- 10goto10, on 11/05/2008, -1/+16I agree with
- 10goto10, on 11/05/2008, -1/+16you completely, and I
- jvincent08, on 11/06/2008, -1/+16Pidgin is a mutli-protocol instant messenger?! NO WAY! And I KNOW you're pulling my leg when you tell me I can right click on *****! And bust my buttons you can even make the interface look JUST like other operating systems! I had NO IDEA Linux could do this stuff! Thanks for sharing!!1!11!1oneoneone
Needless to say, buried. - 10goto10, on 11/05/2008, -1/+16reason why breaking up content
- 10goto10, on 11/05/2008, -1/+16too can not see a
- NinjaBull, on 11/05/2008, -5/+16Bury this, it's on multiple pages
- evil-doer, on 11/06/2008, -1/+11worst list ever. and in a horrible format.
- jman0591, on 11/06/2008, -0/+9I didn't know you could do that with Linux! Add it to the list!
- nubnub, on 11/06/2008, -1/+9Lame
Obvious or just plain stupid. - FasterGun, on 11/06/2008, -1/+9This is a pretty ***** list broken up into ***** parts. Um, do people not think that there is an aim program for linux? And I feel no need to "trick out" any part of my computer. ***** this article.
- crapuccino, on 11/05/2008, -6/+14Yes I knew all of those. Did many of them years ago.
Dugg down for lame content and multipage crapness. - p1eiades, on 11/06/2008, -1/+8Apparently he doesn't know that you can also put everything on one page... "in Linux!"
- mmhnef, on 11/06/2008, -2/+8wow, is this a joke? I can do all that on windows and half of it easier than on linux :/
I love linux.. for developing. Other than that, it dosnt offer anything more than windows in terms of regular user usage abilities. The only benefit there is the software is free.
Linux is cool, but to be honest, untill someone improves xwindows, gaming is dead on linux. With the latest opengl release being a dissapointment and the ease of use for directx, its not worth the effort making games for linux.
But thats why you can dual boot ;) - jjk7288, on 11/06/2008, -2/+8David M. Williams, you and/or your regular readers may be retarded.
- boris4ka, on 11/06/2008, -1/+6Right click? Installing a new hard drive? Better blogs? Are you ***** kidding me? This is the lamest article I've seen in a long time.
- streetread, on 11/06/2008, -1/+6Are you serious? This article is garbage. Half of the things I bothered to read can be done on any platform. Get rid of this article.
- wendall911, on 11/05/2008, -1/+5Who knew. The right mouse button actually works!
I'm not sure if this is parody, or if the author is trying to be helpful. - hardatheist, on 11/05/2008, -1/+5Agreed. Buried because I can't waste my time like this.
- bashfulczar, on 11/06/2008, -1/+5This is stupid, I hope it's not real.
- MrSpontaneous, on 11/06/2008, -0/+3I agree. None of this stuff is new or particularly relevant. The author's main argument seems to be that Linux is better since it isn't Windows.
(Disclaimer: I use Linux full-time.) - benologist, on 11/06/2008, -0/+3It's especialy stupid for crap like this because if you click through to the next page you're obviously committed to reading the content and much less likely to bother clicking an ad. It's just worthelss ad impressions advertisers waste their money on.
- ChayD, on 11/06/2008, -0/+3It's not so much the effort required, it's pointlessly disruptive when you're scanning quickly down the page in search of useful nuggets when instead you have to stop reading, locate the and click the 'next' button, wait for the page to render, scan past half page a of header with the smiley author, find the beginning of the next part, start reading again, then realise that you've already reached the end of the current page when you could just be scrollscrollscrollscroll...yep...scrollscrollscrollscroll....know that already...scrollscrollscrollscroll...ah! interesting! *STOP* readreadreadread....etc.
- n0ia, on 11/06/2008, -3/+5Holy crap! I'm a linux nerd but even I had to log in just to bury this crap because it spans more than one page. Not only that, but articles that have been linked to also do the same thing.
This guy needs to learn how to fit more content on one page, maybe then he wouldn't have to worry about trying to get pages to load faster (see tip #2) cause the same content wouldn't be loaded 10 times more than necessary. - leamanc, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2Gimme a break. How hard is to learn a couple of commands?
And doesn't most of the common distros these days have a GUI installer, in which you can configure RAID? - domness, on 11/05/2008, -1/+3I didn't even read the article. How can so little writing be on one page for a long article!
- Mortiferous, on 11/06/2008, -1/+3A terribly designed site who's ***** design is only surpassed by the horribleness of its content. Instant messaging, blog design....quitting smoking.... really? What the *****.
- tvanwyk, on 11/05/2008, -0/+2Information is important, but you can't totally dismiss the pain-in-the-ass factor out of hand.
I have an idea for an publishing house. Except instead of printing nicely-made hardback books, I plan to offer classic books broken up into plain text files with one paragraph per text file. Instead of getting the book, you'll get a stack of floppies with one text file per floppy.
Each text file will reside in a passworded and multi-parted rar file, with .pars inlcuded for data safety.
Have fun with your information. - tweakr, on 11/06/2008, -1/+3buried for the buck-toothed douchebag staring at me in the banner
- BlackJackJester, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1saying such things without realizing the level I've worked with them isn't an intelligent thing to do. I had it set up and working fine in Fedora 7, but I decided to switch to ubuntu. The software raid didn't transfer over nicely, to say the least. gParted reported no hard drives, mdadm reported an active raid. After I wiped the drives, I followed several tutorials on the Ubuntu forums on how to do it. None of them worked. I wasn't able to format the drives at all, let alone do anything with them. I ended up formatting the machine (no real important data on it), installed Windows server, and set up the raid without a hitch. I'm not a Linux admin or anything, I'm just a student, but if I can't figure out how to make it work after 20 or so hours, and can install a version of windows I've never used before, and make a raid in under 10 minutes (and then formatting time), then that tells me the superior utility for my needs. Sorry Linux, I tried you, I really did. Requiring expert level knowledge to accomplish a simple task tells me this OS isn't there yet.
- crapuccino, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1man mdadm
cat /proc/mdstat - neasteflorin, on 11/05/2008, -4/+5It's just a scheme to artificially inflate the pageviews - an important metric for advertisers. I like to keep it simple and straight.
- PhailQuail, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Huh? there's ads?
- justanto, on 11/06/2008, -1/+2This is not a list of tips; it is a list of self plugging. None of these things are preticularly useful.
- Scotchman, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1@benologist You may not think you notice them but vendors don't spend big bucks to advertise in newspapers and now on the net for nothing. That's how their brands get recognized. Much research has been done on this very subject.
- ethana2, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Screw anti-RSI software. Just screw it. www.colemak.com
Ubuntu (and, you know, all those other ones, see below link)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+fedora%2C ...
..comes with the colemak keyboard layout as an install option. That's how its better for your health. Anti-RSI measures are garbage, slowing you down instead of allowing you to just type more efficiently. - Pelikoira, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1No its wont work :( I tried.
- databeast, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1There's plenty of those.
and if you need a GUI for RAID.. well, have fun losing data, because you probably believe a lot of stuff about RAID that isnt true. Things that you'd probably know if you possessed a level of skill where.. a GUI isnt important to you.
(great, now I'm having flashbacks to retarded Solaris Admins who believed that Solstice was some magic wand to solve all their data integrity problems..)
Anyway, use LVM, not just RAID, and yes, there's a pretty good python-coded LVM manager available from redhat (system-manager-lvm, or something like that, it's in the debian and ubuntu repositories too now) - BlackJackJester, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1to your first one, it's not the commands, it's the complete lack of information on on the hell is going on during the process. I had it set up, then I changed distro's, and it didn't know if it was set up or taken down. One command said raid active, one said no hard drives found. It was a *****, so I just installed windows server, set up LV's, and formatted. boom boom done.
and the only utility I've found for ubuntu is mdadm, which is without gui. - Wargasmic, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Lol @ smoking haha
- Scotchman, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1worthless ad impressions? ever heard of the concept of branding?
- Sabretou, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Well, almost all modern websites have multiple pages, so I'm not sure if that's a very good idea. :/
- benologist, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Like I said, if you click through to the extra pages you're obviously committed to the content not casually browsing around and open to distraction.
How many ads do you notice in a newspaper when you're in the process of reading an article? - nirvaorg, on 11/06/2008, -1/+2ignore paged websites
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