Tips of the IceBurg
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Maintained by Tejas Dinkar
Welcome to IceBurg's tips!!!!!
This is the place to look for tips on Linux. About the little things that you never thought about asking for.
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Tip of the Week
This week's Tip of the Week can always be found here
2005-10-17: How to easily Manage GNOME menus
This will help you easily manage your GNOME menus
- submitted by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal
2005-09-26: Tips for Using vi/vim
This will explain the basics of using vi/vim
- submitted by Tejas Dinkar
2005-09-19: Recovering your corrupted or overwritten MBR
This well help you recover your corrupted or overwritten MBR]
- submitted by Anze Vidmar
2005-09-12: How to get Tux to watch your Boot Screen
This will help you get a picture of tux on your boot screen
- submitted by Jonathan Robinson (mailto:jonathanpete@gmail.com)
2005-09-05: How to Install RKHunter
This will help you Install RKHunter, and check for rootkits
- submitted by Fedora Jim (http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com)
2005-08-29: How to sync your hardware clock behind a firewall
This will help you build and install bootchart, and have it chart your boot process
- submitted by Anze Vidmar
2005-08-22: How to Chart Your Boot Process
This will help you build and install bootchart, and have it chart your boot process
- submitted by Marlon Bastida
2005-08-15: How to Have Tasks Run at Specified Times
This will help you use cron for tasks you want performed regularly, such as making backups, or shutting down the computer
- submitted by Tejas Dinkar
2005-08-08: Use a USB Disk for Authentication
This will help you use a USB pen drive for user authentication
- submitted by Carlos Peraza
2005-08-01: Check Update Script with Desktop Launcher
This will help you write a small script with a Desktop Launcher to check updates upon request in Fedora Core 4
- submitted by Thomas Chung
2005-07-25: Time Saving Terminal Tips
This will help you save some time while working in a BASH shell
- submitted by Carlos Peraza
2005-07-18: Make FC4 DVD out of CD set
This will allow you to create an FC4 DVD set out of your FC4 CD set
- submitted by Igor Kuharchuck (mailto:igorkblr@mail.ru)
2005-07-11: Minimise XMMS to System Tray
This will allow you to minimise XMMS to the system tray in KDE
- submitted by Ada on fedoraforum.org
2005-07-04: How To Assign Shortcut Keys
This will allow you to bind a key, or combination of keys to a program
- submitted by Darwin H. Webb
How To display a quote when you open a BASH shell
This is for you guys who want to display an inspirational, although sometimes irritating quote everytime you open a shell.
This can be easily done by editing either the /etc/bashrc (for effect on all users) or ~/.bashrc (for user specific changes) to call the program fortune
Here is how to install it:
- Install the fortune program, stored in yum (or pbone.net) as the program fortune-mod: yum install fortune-mod
- Open either /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc in a text editor like emacs or vi
- Look for the line: # ... functions and aliases (usually 4th line)
- Add this line below it: fortune; echo
See man fortune for options you can set.
fortune -s is particularly useful as it only displays quotes that are short.
How To set up FedoraNEWS.org as a keyword
This is a tip for you frequent readers of FedoraNEWS.org
You can easily access articles using the FireFox's keywords ability.
- Go to Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> New Bookmark
- In the Name field, type in FedoraNEWS.org
- In the Location field, type in http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/%s
- In the Keyword section, type in fednews
- Click the OK button
Now, you can just type in "fednews Tips of the IceBurg", to go straight to the tips homepage
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