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Linux tip: Rename and resize images with bash script from console

By Detector | 14 January 2009

Do you have a big collection of images? Do you want to prepare them for publishing on the web, sending on email or any other purpose? In Linux robust graphic applications are not needed for renaming...
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Linux tip: How to run multiple X sessions

By Detector | 13 January 2009

If you share your Linux box with someone and you are sick of continually logging in and out, or you just need multiple X sessions for your work, use this short tutorial. Assuming that your computer...
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Linux tip: Backup your bootsector

By Detector | 13 January 2009

If you are messing with bootloaders, dual-booting, hoping from one to another operating system and do other various scary processes, the risk of damaging or messed bootsector in your Linux is very hight. The best way...
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Linux tip: How to install graphic driver from the command line / console

By Detector | 12 January 2009

One of the most common problems seems to be when a kernel update breaks the installed video driver and inexperienced users cannot get a desktop back, but are left without a GUI and can’t figure out...
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Linux tip: Use alias command to set shortcut for long Linux commands

By Detector | 10 January 2009

The alias command is useful for setting up shortcuts for long commands, or even more clever things. For example, to make short command from DetectorPro post: How to find only today files in Linux, we could...
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Linux tip: How to list / find only today files

By Detector | 09 January 2009

Sometime in your working day, you created a text file, which now is urgently required. The problem is that you can’t remember what name you gave it, your home folder(or other folder) is full of over...
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Linux tip: How to unmount busy drive

By Detector | 09 January 2009

You are probably all experienced with the situation – you are trying to unmount a drive, but keep getting told by your system that it’s busy. If you like to find which application hold the drive...
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Linux tip: How to take a screenshot without X (GUI), just from console

By Detector | 09 January 2009

There are lot of screen-capture tools, but a lot of them are based on X(GUI). Sometimes, when running an X application may interfere with the application you wanted to grab – perhaps a game or even...
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Linux tip: Speed up your hard drives under linux

By Detector | 09 January 2009

You may know that the hdparm tool can be used to speed test your disk and change a few settings. It can also be used to optimize drive performance, and turn on some features that may...
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New nVidia Linux driver 180.22

By Detector | 09 January 2009

nVidia release a new Linux graphic driver version 180.22. It support VDPAU acceleration (PureVideo video acceleration), OpenGL 3.0, CUDA 2.1 (parallel GPU acceleration for complex CPU instructions) and add support for the latest Linux kernels. The...
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