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BZFlag - 3D multi-player tank game install howto 2007-08-27 01:44:00 A very tactical nice 3D enabled multiplayer strategical linux battle tank game. The approach and skills required for this tank game appears to be similar to the strategy skills used from playing the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

screenshot and snapshot creations howtos 2007-08-27 00:56:00 How to create desktop screenshots from terminal? How to create desktop screenshots from Linux X? How to create thumbnail images of any picture file from terminal? How to create thumbnail images of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

string parsing using bash 2007-08-26 08:13:00 Unfortunately, Google doesn't know about this. Even Google global indexes doesn't refer to any link with regards to this entry and topic. Interesting but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

grep multiple character from string or file 2007-08-26 07:33:00 This entry focus on filtering sets of character from string or from text file using grep. Here's a quick usage of parsing and filtering multiple character using grep. Say we have a sample... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

enable and disable of telnet service 2007-08-26 02:59:00 Telnet - user interface to the TELNET protocol The telnet command is used to communicate with another host using the TELNET protocol. If telnet is invoked without the host argument, it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

grep multiple strings from a file 2007-08-26 01:01:00 Supposed you need to filter different search filter words from a large text file. Here's a quick entry that covers parsing and filtering multiple strings using grep in a command line. My sample... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

remove spaces from filenames 2007-08-25 05:02:00 Let us assume that we have a situation where in your boss wants you to remove all spaces from his MP3/OGG/WMV/MPG filenames and replace them with underscore character. To accomplish this task of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

ISO creation and CD/DVD burning from terminal 2007-08-25 04:46:00 How to create ISO images from terminal? How to create CD/DVD ISO image of files/folder from terminal? How to create CD/DVD ISO image of CD/DVD disk from terminal? How to burn ISO image file into... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... Dvd

send a message to user's terminal 2007-08-25 04:00:00 Here's another alternative on sending messages to specific and currently logged in remote terminal user. Write allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from your terminal to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

retrieve GMail emails via terminal using fetchmail 2007-08-24 18:13:00 This entry will cover a one shot linux fetchmail command of retrieving GMail email messages using terminal without any further fetchmail configuration setup. Read on. Fetchmail is one good linux... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

more of activating and deactivating network card 2007-08-24 17:32:00 With my recent entry on doing start and stop with network card, which can be found here, here's another alternative on activating and deactivating your ethernet card. This entry covers another... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

set new mysql password 2007-08-23 09:58:00 Appreciate your email. Here's another email request on setting up a new password for a newly installed mysql. How to set a new password for a newly setup MySQL server? # mysql -u mysql At the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

TIP: enable thumbnail display images from apache 2007-08-23 05:35:00 As an email request, here's how to enable your apache web server to enable display of thumbnail images from your personal web-based photo, image and gallery management using your photo management,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

monitor large mailbox users 2007-08-23 03:01:00 Monitoring mailbox users can be done in many serveral ways via web interface or via terminal or via bash scripts. With the usual mbox type emails, incoming new email messages are automatically... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

using the linux yes command 2007-08-23 01:17:00 One quick way of sending set of character to standard output repeatedly is using the linux command yes. Here's how to print string of words repeatedly from your screen. Prints words 10 times #... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...