Ever wanted to learn Vim, but weren't sure how to start? No problem. We have you covered! This will be the first of a four-part (possibly longer) series covering how to use Vim and where to start using the world's best text editor.
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Over 50 Free, Must-Have Open Source Resources
On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational toolkits are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site.
Read more »Tricks for Installing and Configuring a Local LAMP Sever
LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, which represents a very common configuration for Linux-based web servers. If you're interested in testing websites, particularly those that involve a server-side scripting language like PHP, you can install a local LAMP server on your own computer. This tutorial will show you some tricks for setting up a local LAMP server.
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Understanding Character Sets or: Why do I See Funny Characters in Firefox?
What the heck does ?€œ mean? Why do we see these, and what be done about them? Akkana Peck explores the mysteries of character sets and encodings.
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Hard disk usage and availability report tools
This tutorial will explain 3 Hard disk usage and availability report tools available in ubuntu
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Mplayer Frontends (gnome-mplayer,Smplayer)
We have already discussed how to install mplayer,mutimedia codecs and firefox plugin in ubuntu 9.10 this tutorial we will see two nice frontends for mplayer
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Learn image manipulation and create a glassy wallpaper on GIMP
Playing with GIMP is never boring, every time you do some experiment you come to know of some cool effect. The best part are the filters, which if applied properly, can produce jaw dropping effects. While experimenting with GIMP I came to know that how easily I could create a glassy text with gimp.
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Using Iterators in PHP
This article shows you how to use the most important iterator classes: ArrayIterator, DirectoryIterator, FilterIterator, and so forth, found in the Standard PHP Library (SPL), and how to integrate SPL with PHP Data Objects (PDO).
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List of PDF Editing tools for Ubuntu
This tutorial will give some useful pdf editing tools for ubuntu users.
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Faster & Stronger MySQL
Typically, when our database is slowing down, we want it to be faster, stronger, bigger and better! With that in mind I'm going to discuss some of the various ways to get there, and hopefully put some of the technology options in perspective.
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Learn Linux, 101: File and directory management
You've probably heard that everything in Linux is a file, so start on the right path with a solid grounding in file and directory management -- finding, listing, moving, copying, and archiving. You can use this material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to learn for fun.
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Python: input, raw_input, and inadvertently treating integers as strings
This is a "newbie" mistake, but these little details do tend to get in the way, which is why I'm posting my wee Python tutorial. If you know Python or programming, even reasonably well, this will probably seem way too simple to you. Just giving you a "heads up" so you don't waste your time. I encountered a lesson that teaches storing conditionals using booleans. The code was presented like this:..
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Updated Guile Tutorial
"This document is an introduction into using Guile, the GNU extension language and system. Guile is a dialect of the Scheme programming language, and I will assume you're at least confident about the very basics of Scheme or LISP in general.
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Scripting the Vim editor, Part 1: Variables, values, and expressions
Vimscript is a mechanism for reshaping and extending the Vim editor. Scripting allows you to create new tools, simplify common tasks, and even redesign and replace existing editor features. This article (the first in a series) introduces the fundamental components of the Vimscript programming language: values, variables, expressions, statements, functions, and commands.
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