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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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What’s the Best CMS

July 29, 2008 – 2:57 pm

Content management systems are sprouting up like mushrooms after a warm April rain. If your job is to find the perfect CMS for your needs, you can spend weeks analyzing and comparing features of various …

Partitioning System Disk

July 24, 2008 – 8:25 pm
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When performing a new Unix OS installation you are usually presented with a choice of accepting the default partitioning layout or going into advanced settings and defining your own partitions. The default layout will normally …

Google Tips and Tricks

July 22, 2008 – 11:15 am
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Google offers a remarkable set of powerful features. Unfortunately, most people are not aware of these possibilities. They use only the most basic functionality offered by Google and then waste their time on weeding out …

Convert Images to PDF

July 18, 2008 – 12:26 am
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Converting sets of images into multi-page PDF files makes it easier to organize and share them. All you need for the conversion is the free that will run on your Windows, Linux, MacOS and many other operating systems. If you are running a recent version of Linux, chances are that ImageMagick is already installed on your computer (just type “which convert” to check).