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Master PDF Editor a complete tool to create and modify pdf files with Linux

Mar 132013

Master PDF Editor is a free tool for personal use on Linux systems, it is not open source, but is an option to consider for the tasks involving editing and modifying pdf files.
It is a complete solution for creating and editing both PDF and XPS files, and lets you add content to existing PDF and XPS files. You can add, edit, import, add images. You can also add text, or edit it. Similarly, you can add or remove pages, change the format of the pages, and of course change the PDF information, author, title, subject, keywords and other information about the document.

Besides these features, you can also encrypt and convert PDF files to XPS format.

Another interesting feature of this application is that it lets you create and edit forms, from buttons, combo boxes, list boxes, text entry boxes and more.

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dig – Linux DNS Lookup utility cheat sheet

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Feb 182013

An interesting small and quick, cheat sheet for the command dig found on http://www.hackersgarage.com/

Dig – Domain Information Groper is a light weight Linux utility for querying DNS records. It is widely used to diagnose DNS servers, troubleshoot DNS servers, purge DNS Cache using external DNS server and dozen of great features it provides.

Here i am sharing quick cheat sheet of dig – DNS Lookup utility that every System/Network administrator should have print out at their desk.

In these examples, 8.8.8.8 is a Google Public DNS Server that you can use in /etc/resolv.conf

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How to have a transparent terminal as wallpaper that displays information

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Feb 102013

It’s useful for me to have a transparent terminal in the background that show information from one or more system logs, such as dmesg,messages or get an interactive process status of the system with htop or glances, there are many ways to achieve this, let’s take a look at: xrootconsole, Tilda and Eterm. Continue reading »

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Half Life and Counter Strike on GNU/Linux through Steam

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Feb 082013

I used to play these games around 10 years ago or more, and without any other option available I had a second partition with windows 98 as “game station”, somewhere I should still have the original boxes and perhaps I should start to search for them, because now they have (finally !!) arrived on Linux.

Steam client for Linux is becoming richer by a growing number of game titles and now you can see on the game database http://steamdb.info/linux/ that half life, Counter Strike and the newsest version Counter Strike Source have “Game Works” as Linux Status tag.

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alias.sh puts your Linux shell alias on the clouds

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Jan 202013

If you are a Linux system administrator or you just wish to save a copy of your alias on the net, this is the service for you !
alias.sh is a new project that offer a simple service: allows you to manage all of your aliases online and browse the list of cool aliases submitted by others. From the term of your desktop, or server, you can run a single command to copy all your aliases on your system, or back into your profile should you require them.