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A one-liner that will list only the mounted removable drives on your system.

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This command will only list the mounted removable drives on your Linux system. The ones under /dev/sd*. This is very easy to use. 4.4 Mon Jan 13 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cat /etc/mtab | grep /dev/s[a-f]/* /dev/sda2 /media/jason/Seagate\040Expansion\040Drive fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0 /dev/sdb4 /media/jason/My\040Stuff fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 04.4 Mon Jan 13 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cat /etc/mtab … Read more

Some very useful Powershell tricks.

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Print the current date and time with Powershell. "{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss – d/M/yy}" -f (get-date)"{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss – d/M/yy}" -f (get-date) This is an example of what this will give you. PS C:\Users\jason> "{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss – d/M/yy}" -f (get-date) Tuesday – 08:42:05 – 30/1/18PS C:\Users\jason> "{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss – d/M/yy}" -f (get-date) Tuesday – … Read more

A new Ambiance theme for your Linux Mint MATE desktop. And other theme goodness for you.

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New Ambiance theme available for the Linux Mint MATE desktop. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Ambiance+Crunchy?content=151181. This is a new version of the Ubuntu Ambiance theme for the Gnome Shell and Linux Mint 15 MATE desktops. This theme is very attractive and well worth a download for any Linux desktop user. The breadcrumbs in Nautilus render very well with this … Read more

Keeping your data safe by backing up your data. A good hard disk and external housing for backups.

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Backing up your precious data to protect your files is essential; the Seagate range of hard drives provide a reliable solution for backing up your data or a large capacity hard drive for installing Linux to. I remember I installed Mandrake Linux once onto a 80 Gigabyte hard disk and due to the large capacity … Read more

Linux in the movies and television. Some famous appearances.

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In the television series “Heroes” a KDE desktop was spotted running the Kopete application. A screenshot below. This is a Mandriva distribution displaying part of the Kmix window and a live webcam application. We all know about the famous scene in the Matrix Reloaded where Trinity is cracking the Matrix power station servers to buy … Read more

SSD Solid State Disks taking over from the traditional hard disk with moving parts that can wear out.

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The Solid State Drives that are now available, with no moving parts compared to a traditional hard disk are the faster alternative to the traditional hard disk drives that are taking over as very fast boot drives. They do not have the capacity of a traditional hard disk, an SSD is available in a 128 … Read more

The old computers that led us into the computing revolution. The 10,000 dollar PDP-8.

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This is the PDP-8 computer. This beast had 4 Kilobytes of RAM and was quite the purchase back in the day. You could program in FORTRAN on this machine, entering code with a teletype input. The more powerful PDP-9 had twice the RAM, 8 Kilobytes to be precise and cost only 35,000 dollars. But with … Read more

Dick Smith Electronics selling used hard drives as new. Ooops.

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Dick Smith Electronics, a major Australian retailer have been accused of selling used and malware infected hard drives as new, endangering the computers owned by consumers. In one instance a preacher bought an external hard drive and when he plugged it in he was greeted by a pornographic video. You would think they would be … Read more