Archive for January, 2010

28th January Comments

What Does It Take to Be a Linux Guru?

Posted on January 28th, 2010 at 7:47 am

  It’s a well-known fact that humans love lists, and the media are generally all too happy to oblige. Recently, however, mixed in among the many “Top 10″ lists and “10 Ways to …” articles out there was one that seemed worthy of attention. “10 Characteristics of a Linux Guru?” was the title of the [...]

23rd January Comments

YouTube, Vimeo Ditching Flash for HTML5

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 at 6:45 am

  YouTube and Vimeo is kicking Adobe’s Flash to the curb in favor of the sharp new HTML5. Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that they are launching HTML5-based players on their video streaming sites, thus booting out the long-standing champ of multimedia delivery, Adobe Flash. With recent security issues plaguing Adobe products, it’s no [...]

21st January Comments

Gotta Love Ice

Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 12:13 pm

Yuppers the blizzards were not enough because here is the ice storm. Jeeesh what a nice winter. These are branches that normally are 5 foot above the deck and here they are.

10th January Comments

Can You Top This? 15 Practical Linux Top Command Examples

Posted on January 10th, 2010 at 6:38 am

  This article is part of the on-going 15 example series where 15 examples will be provided for a specific command or functionality. In this series, earlier we discussed about find command, crontab examples, grep command, history command, ping command, and wget examples. In this article, let us review 15 examples for Linux top command [...]

7th January Comments

More Coming

Posted on January 7th, 2010 at 8:35 am

Okay for goodness sake enough is enough! With only 5″ of snow on the ground this is all the new stuff over night and with 12 hours more to come there should be a great mess by morning when the high winds hit. And for those you have asked the can is full of BBQ [...]

2nd January Comments

Getting Started with Arch Linux

Posted on January 2nd, 2010 at 9:06 am

  We recently asked readers for requests on new articles you’d like to see (and thanks for all the great ideas!). One such request was a beginner’s guide to Arch Linux. As a Linux distro addict, I’ve heard of Arch many times over the years but for some reason, I’d never actually given it a [...]