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Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

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Selecting CMS Software

February 21, 2013 – 11:45 pm
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If you are looking for an open-source content management system, your choices are likely to boil down to these three: Joomla!, WordPress, and Drupal. Professional CMS developers tend to disregard WordPress as a purely blogging …

Printing from SuSE/SLES to a Windows Printer

December 10, 2009 – 5:05 pm

The following document explains how to configure your SuSE or SLES system to be able to print to a remote printer shared from a Windows server. The first step is to install Unix print support …

Linux performance tuning

August 22, 2007 – 2:40 pm
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Linux Performance Tuning
April | May 2007 | by Jaqui Lynch
Note: This is the second article in a two-part series. The first installment was published in the February/March issue.
In last issue’s article I introduced basic Linux* …

KDE 3.2 Desktop

December 26, 2005 – 7:22 pm

Some screenshots of KDE 3.2 running under SuSE 9.2 on an AMD 64 machine with CrossOver Windows emulator and Microsoft Office XP installed.

A general view of the KDE desktop with one of the standard backgrounds.

Here’s …

Running Windows Apps on Linux

December 5, 2005 – 11:43 pm
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CrossOver is a commercial variation of Wine freeware – a Windows emulator for Linux. This program allows you to run popular Windows applications under x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. Wine and CrossOver can …

Find largest files

November 19, 2005 – 11:17 pm
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How to find the largest files in the directory tree on Solaris.