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Extending Bash Auto-Completion

One of the ways of making command line more usable is by providing auto-completion. It is a non-intrusive way of freeing the user from the burden of remembering options. Bash provides something called programmable completion which can be extended for your own applications. [Continue]

The Unique Feature Of My Linux Box

What unique thing does my Linux box do that makes other OS jealous? The biggest feature that my Linux box offers is choice, and that helps me grab many more. This choice is not limited to desktop applications like editors or browsers or media players or email clients, it also works for desktop environments, window managers, sound daemons, firewalls, right down to a specific kernel version, even my own. [Continue]

The 1234567890 Day

It will be 1234567890 day this weekend. That is, we will get 1234567890 seconds old since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on Jan 1 1970), on Friday, Feb 13 2009 at 3:31:30 PM PST, which is Saturday, Feb 14 2009 5:01:30 AM Indian time. On most of the Unix systems you can find out your local time for this Unix time using date -d@1234567890. [Continue]

The Only Way To Not Copy Windows Is Educate

Bob Sutor, VP of open source and standards at IBM, has advice for Linux developers - do not copy Windows. True, I fully agree with him, Linux can be better than Windows only by being different. However, it is a tricky situation for people who want to lead people to migrate to Linux. [Continue]

Trying Out XFCE

I have been a KDE loyal for quite some years now. I had first taken to it on Solaris, and since then nothing else has worked for me. However, now I am trying out XFCE for some reasons. [Continue]

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