The BASH shell has many useful features that allow you to perform your tasks very easily. If you are running a program in a terminal and you wish to run another command whilst the first command is running, then press CTRL-Z to move the running process to the background. Then once you have finished the … Read more
Once of the programmers behind the KDE project is bringing the KDE 1 codebase to modern Linux distributions. This means that you could have a KDE 1 desktop on Ubuntu or Linux Mint. This is exciting. Especially if you could bring the classic KDE 1 themes to the modern Linux desktop as well, like the … Read more
Setting up the normal user account on Debian GNU/Linux to use sudo Setting up your normal user account on Debian to use the sudo command instead of the su command is very simple. This is the contents of my /etc/sudoers file. This line: neo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALLneo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL Is the one that defines our normal … Read more
There is the ability to open a Vimeo video with VLC, but Youtube URL`s can be opened with VLC as well. Paste the Youtube video URL into VLC allows the playback of this video in VLC. Then the video will open up in VLC. This is a great way to playback a Youtube video, I … Read more
Record your desktop to a video fileRecord your desktop with sound Record your desktop to a video file To record a good quality video of your Linux desktop, there are many ways to do this. The ffmpeg utility will be a natural choice for what we need. Run the command below to start recording a … Read more
Computing in the 1990`s was much different to the experience we have today. The software we used like Internet Explorer and Netscape was not very secure. Running Windows `95 or `98 did not give a great deal of security compared to a modern operating system. The Internet was the wild west before Google came along, … Read more
If this program does not work for you in 2019, give this one a go instead, it is working very well on multiple websites: https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/how-to-download-videos-from-websites-in-2019/. it is called Clibgrab and does the same job as xVideoServiceThief, but works with Vimeo and Youtube. As well as Dailymotion. The xVideoServiceThief application is a great way to download … Read more
Here are some awesome themes for the KDE and MATE desktops to brighten up your KDE and MATE desktop experience. Lovely themes for the Linux Mint MATE desktop. Full Flat KDE Plasma theme. A nice flat theme for the KDE 4.9 Plasma desktop. Screenshot: Full Flat theme. Metrosuave. A beautiful Beryl Emerald theme that would … Read more
Getting the clock speed of your machine using the dmidecode command for Linux This command-line example shows that we are using the dmidecode command to get the current clock speed for our machine. This also shows some creative use of the sed command to parse the output and change the “Current Speed” text string to … Read more
The ls command for Linux may be used to list more than one thing at a time. These examples demonstrate this. homer@deusexmachina ~ $ ls -p /opt/ /bin/rm /bin/rm /opt/: firefox/ mint-flashplugin-11/homer@deusexmachina ~ $ ls -p /opt/ /bin/rm /bin/rm /opt/: firefox/ mint-flashplugin-11/ Here is a more verbose version of this command. With human readable … Read more