There may be an occasion where you want to count the number of files in a directory in GNU/Linux. Here are a few simple commands to get the job done.
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XBMC: Free media center for your computer
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Great free software for Linux. You can access your photos, videos and music from your living room TV. Looks great and has easy navigation.
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How to Access / Install Device Manager in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic koala
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There is not an application like Windows Device Manager Ubuntu. Gnome-Device-Manager is the Ubuntu equivalent for the Windows Device Manager application. it's not installed by default. Gnome Device Manager is a front-end, or GUI, to the HAL daemon service.
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Sometimes you need to restart USB services for a USB device to be recognized. Get the job done with this command line one-liner.
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My Pardus 2009.1 Experience
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If you're a KDE fan but haven't taken Pardus Linux out for a spin in awhile, maybe it's time you should. Yesterday brought us Pardus 2009.1 which features the new hybrid .iso files, one of the easiest installers around in YALI, a sweet KDE 4.3.4 desktop, and a growing number of available applications. I gave the new version of Pardus a shot and here's what I found.
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Things to know before Replacing Windows by Linux
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All those who have been using Windows since Long and want to try linux then you should prepare yourself before facing Linux. Here I have tried to list out some similaritites as well Differences among the two operating systems which will be helpful to when you start with Linux.
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Linux Mint 8 vs Ubuntu 9.10
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Linux Mint and Ubuntu are two very popular Linux distributions. This article is a comparative review of Helena and Karmic koala, the latest editions of Mint and Ubuntu.
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Monitoring User Activity with psacct or acct
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An excellent program for monitoring users and applications is psacct. This program will work in the background of your system recording what all users are doing on your system as well as the resources that are being consumed. I originally started using this program when a client asked for a way to monitor his developers and what they were doing on the servers that they were working on.
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Distributed Development with Mercurial
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"Every clone of a Mercurial repository can act as a consistent, fully functional repository itself.This is a very useful property of a DVCS; one that you can take advantage of to make development a lot easier, especially for teams that are dispersed in multiple places of the globe..." — Mercu
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10 Reasons to Switch to Linux
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Linux has been time-proven to be a reliable operating system. Although the desktop is not a new place for Linux, most Linux-based systems have been used as servers and embedded systems. High-visibility Web sites such as Google use Linux-based systems, but you also can find Linux inside the TiVo set-top box in many livingrooms.
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Create a Photostream Using jQuery and the Flickr API
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An article on how to use jQuery and the Flickr API to add a photostream to your blog.
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10 Mistakes Linux learners should avoid
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Today, Linux distributions are getting more and more popular, specially Ubuntu. Many ‘technical users’ of Microsoft Windows are showing interest in using or trying out Linux, but they repeat some common mistakes. Which are,
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Robots.txt Tips For Deailing With Bots
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A few tips I put together while re-creating the robots.txt file on my Linux web server. The robots.txt is used to provide crawling instructions to web robots using the Robots Exclusion Protocol. When a web robots visits your site it will check this file, robots.txt, to discover any directories or pages you want to exclude from the web robot listing on the search engine.
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How would an “ordinary” student cope using a non-Windows environment for 48 hours? Would there be any particular advantages, or would he/she find more disadvantages than it’s worth for long term use?
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Crack your Wi-Fi WEP and WPA-PSK keys with Aircrack in Ubuntu
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Aircrack-ng is an 802.11a/b/g WEP/WPA cracking program that can recover a 40-bit, 104-bit, 256-bit or 512-bit WEP key once enough encrypted packets have been gathered. Also it can attack WPA1/2 networks with some advanced methods or simply by brute force.
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