today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 19, 2023

• Make Use Of ☛ How to Limit curl Request Time

  It’s often better to fail quickly than to keep on waiting in the hope of success.

• Make Use Of ☛ 2023-11-12 [Older] Learn How to Overclock a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

• Make Use Of ☛ Adding an ADC to Your Raspberry Pi: What You Need to Know

  Start measuring the world around you with this practical and comprehensive project.

• Make Use Of ☛ How to Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu

  Installed Ubuntu and can't find your favorite browser? Here's how to install Chrome on Ubuntu and configure it.

• University of Toronto ☛ 2023-11-14 [Older] Amanda has clever restores from tar archives (sometimes)

• Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-11-16 [Older] How to install MCreator 2023.3 on a Chromebook

• Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-11-16 [Older] How to install PhpStorm on Peppermint OS

• Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-11-15 [Older] How to install FlightGear on Peppermint OS

• Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-11-15 [Older] How to install OpenOffice on a Chromebook as an AppImage

• Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-11-14 [Older] How to install Blockman Editor on a Chromebook

• Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-11-14 [Older] How to install PyCharm Community on Peppermint OS

• Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-11-13 [Older] How to install Endeavour on a Chromebook - a personal task manager

• Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-11-13 [Older] How to install the Shotcut video editor on Peppermint OS

• Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-11-12 [Older] How to install Clone Hero on a Chromebook in 2023

• Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-11-12 [Older] How to install Intellij IDEA Community on Peppermint OS

• HowTo Geek ☛ How to Use the tail Command on Linux

  Need to know the most recent change to a file?

• HowTo Geek ☛ How to List Users in Linux

  It's time to name names.

• HowTo Geek ☛ How to Use the dmesg Command on Linux

  Need to get to the bottom of a hardware problem on Linux? The dmesg command is the fault finder's friend.

• HowTo Geek ☛ How to Use the less Command on Linux

  Less is definitely more, at least in this case.

• HowTo Geek ☛ How to Use the ip Command on Linux

  It is time to break up with ifconfig.

• HowTo Geek ☛ How to Check Memory Usage From the Linux Terminal

  Is it Chromium using up all of the RAM?

• HowTo Geek ☛ How to Change Your Default Shell on Linux with chsh

  A shell for every occasion.

• HowTo Geek ☛ How to Get the Size of a File or Directory in Linux

  Old downloads are taking up how much space?

• [CMS change] Network World ☛ Getting started on the Linux (or Unix) command line, Part 1

  To get started as a Linux (or Unix) user, you need to have a good perspective on how Linux works and a handle on some of the most basic commands. This first post in a "getting started" series examines some of the first commands you need to be ready to use.

• [CMS change] Network World ☛ Using the Linux compgen bash builtin

  Linux’s compgen command is not actually a Linux command. In other words, it’s not implemented as an executable file, but is instead a bash builtin. That means that it’s part of the bash executable. So, if you were to type “which compgen”, your shell would run through all of the locations included in your $PATH variable, but it just wouldn’t find it.