Another very nice bash shell prompt, this shows how to have custom characters in a prompt.
Some nice bash shell prompts that might be very useful for you.
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A very interesting bash shell trick. Edit the last command in the history.
How to use the !! operator to perform a very nice bash shell trick. This is how to edit the last command in the history and edit a spelling mistake.
Read MoreThe history of computers.
The history of computers goes back to ancient Greece, with the Ankithera machine that was an Astronomical calculator to compute the positions of the planets. More recently, Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) of France invented the computing machine to perform various calculations which were followed by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646…
Read MoreGet your most popular shell commands with a simple one-liner.
Get your most popular shell commands with a simple one-liner, this is a very interesting Linux hack, good to see what you are using the terminal for.
Read MoreHow to go back in directory history with the bash command and other tricks.
To undo the cd command if you typed it by accident, enter this command. ~$ cd -~$ cd – This will take you back in the directory history. A very useful trick. Typing this is another good trick. ~$ cd –~$ cd — This seems to take the user back…
Read MoreAdd BASH styled line editing and persistent history to the CMD window.
This useful utility: http://mridgers.github.io/clink/. Will allow persistent history and line editing in the Windows 10 CMD window. This makes the CMD session much more enjoyable to use. Press Alt-H in the CMD window to get help that shows the keyboard shortcuts for this addon. Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10130] (c) 2015…
Read MoreHard drive technology from the early days to the latest super capacity drives.
The hard disk drive has come a long way since the first one I used, a 10 megabyte capacity beast. In 1979, you would have paid US$5,350,00 for an external hard drive housing that could store 10 megabytes of data. That would have been a luxury item back then. Another…
Read MoreWhy Linux uses .dotfiles for hidden filenames.
The original UNIX programmers created a bug in the early UNIX code 40 years ago. This code had the side effect of making files starting with a dot hidden to the normal ls command. This was adopted as a ‘feature’. Nowadays, the dotfile is the standard way of hiding configuration…
Read MoreHow the personal computer has evolved through the ages. How things have changed since the early days.
The personal computer has changed so much since the early days of the computer. The earliest true computer, the ENIAC was a massive machine that took up a warehouse. This massive machine used vacuum tubes to perform calculations instead of the modern silicon chips that the computers of today use….
Read MoreNostalgic look at computer data storage we used in the old days of computing.
This posting will be looking at the various methods used to store our data in the old days of computing. Firstly the 8 inch floppy disk. The disk was pretty big, but the actual drives were extremely heavy, they were quite a handful. The 5 1/2” disk was better, you…
Read MoreCustomising Linux and Computing history.
The Linux distributions that are in common use all over the world have many advantages over the closed source operating systems such as Windows and Macintosh operating systems, the freedom to customize the distribution and create your own version of the distribution is the key strength of Linux. The Ubuntu…
Read MoreThe evolution of the KDE Linux desktop. From 1.0 to 4.8.0.
The KDE desktop has come a long way since the early KDE 2.0 desktop I was using on my old Pentium II Dell Optiplex running Debian 3.0. Nowadays the KDE desktop has changed quite a bit. I do not like the fact that the awesome KDE World Clock application that…
Read More20 years of Linux, interview with Linus Torvalds.
There is a story over on Slashdot about the 20 year anniversary of the Linux operating system. Linux has come a long way in the 20 year history and now it is a very robust and reliable operating system. Since Linus Torvalds needed a free version of the proprietary UNIX…
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