ibm.com — As a follow-up to Michael Stutz's excellent article, this article provides 10 more good habits to adopt that will improve your UNIX command-line efficiency. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, and discover exactly why these 10 UNIX habits are worth picking up!
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tehdoctorSep 8, 2008
Interesting. How much did that cost? Why do you need 8 f**king GB of RAM to watch TV? I'm pretty sure TVs don't need 8GB of RAM. Oh, right... Vista is a huge, bloated piece of s**t. Almost forgot. How long does it take to boot your TV?Old mini ITX box + myth is probably a tenth of what you spent.You must be a Windows sysadmin, or a you're a really bad Unix sysadmin because anyone who knows what they're doing would a) not have trouble spending a little time to get a cheap Linux box up and running and b) not recommend Windows for anything other than making a virus-aquarium like the one in the xkcd comic.Get a real OS.
mrbitchSep 9, 2008
@benoitcsirois RE: " -Cinelerra - Video editing: May be slightly unstable from my experience, but works quite well. -Tomboy notes (Write notes on your desktop, saves automatically)-Cheese (unstable), Take picture and videos using your webcam.-Games: Urban Terror (so many other similar games) "-- Thank you for the apps suggestions! ( never heard of "cheese", "Cinelerra", or "Tomboy Notes" ).
Closed AccountSep 9, 2008
In my opinion history expansion was the most useful one that I didn't know before.
emarketingbgSep 9, 2008
They fulfill my knowledge again.The push/popd tip is great!
scottymcbaggsSep 9, 2008
Actually TehDoctor, let me respond to your comments in order:1. It cost just 1000 dollars.2. It clearly says 6 GB, and I use it for ALL media functions, I don't think you understand: I have approx. 200 GB of music alone. That's mp3 on disk, I don't even have a clue what my lossless archive that I want to put on disk is, or my DVD collection. Simply indexing the s**t takes forever in iTunes as well as the myth frontend. The more RAM, with the quad core processor, is the first smooth media experience I have ever had. Even my dual core mac with 4 GB of ram can't keep up. So no, it doesn't really have anything to do with Vista, in fact I don't touch the OS. I disabled the shiny effects, like I do in Linux, and that was about all I did with the OS. I hit this nice little green button on a remote and my media center comes up. Wow, works out of the f**king box. Incredible. And from the time I hit the power button on the remote to when it's up is less than ten seconds. Suspend works? Holy s**t what a miracle of the lord fsm himself.3. Old mini ITX + myth for 100 bucks (that's one tenth of 1000 right? or am I the retard) that can handle a media catalog the size of mine? Dude, my f**king ipod costs more than that, and holds a tiny fraction of my media. 4. No, I am a Linux sysadmin, and have been using Linux since I was barely old enough to wipe my ass and I am guessing you have been an Ubuntu fanboi for a few years. Yea, make a 1.5-2 hour commute everyday and tell me you want to dick around with the piece of s**t mythtv frontend after being a real sysadmin, in charge of production boxes, not your ubuntu laptop.You have what us in IT like to call engineer's syndrome. You live in this fantastic world where business doesn't exist and it's acceptable to spend all of your time tinkering. Sometimes, normal people like me prefer to just throw in a Macgyver DVD and hit PLAY, and see some kick ass.
stroggothSep 9, 2008
To check the weather: just create a desktop shorcut and use "<a class="user" href="http://www.weather.com/">http://www.weather.com/</a>" as the path... one click weather!
subgeniusdSep 9, 2008
@Stroggoth - That's too simple and easy, your mom could do it. This is a lot more fun if you just can't EVER spend enough time playin' with your precious computer:$ curl –s <a class="user" href="http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/ALY/RWRALY">http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/ALY/RWRALY</a> | grep BUFFALOBUFFALO MOSUNNY 43 22 43 NE13 30.10R
jonnycasinoSep 9, 2008
Thumbs up for the curl tip!