Author: Kurt Hartman Jr
First off, let me say that I am not one of those terminal loving Linux fans. I think it is cool and all, but I tend to save the command line for things that either require doing a massive batch job, or when I need to do something really specific.
Other than that, I stick to the Gnome GUI, and work within the parameters that various menus offer me. That works for 99% of what I need done.
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Article by Santosh Sivaraj, originally published on fossix.org
Introduction
The computer system is becoming a complex beast which cannot be tamed easily. In the new world the operating systems have become too big and complex for one to learn everything in depth. Most new aspiring system programmers do not have a picture of what is happening in a system when you type ./a.out. This article is an attempt to provide the picture and also the necessary details for a Linux newcomer to grasp so that he/she can refer to more detailed books for further learning. This article/paper is just a starter so when newcomers start with bigger books don’t get overwhelmed without knowing the natural flow of the Linux system.
In a previous post i’ve presented you 3 space games, today i add one to that list: Oolite
Oolite is a space sim game, inspired by Elite, powered by Objective-C and OpenGL, and designed as a small game that is easy for users to pick up, modify and expand upon. Almost every aspect of the game can be changed by using simple, free graphics packages and text editors.
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On our server we have (or you should have) tons of logs generated, logs from various daemons (ssh, iptables, monit, fail2ban), services (apache. nginx, bind, ftp, etc.) and system logs (syslog, messages, kernel).
So i’m sure that every day you check these logs and look if something bad has happened, right ?
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Today post is by Juan Valencia, originally posted on his blog (available also in spanish there), i’ve found it really interesting with in deep articles regarding rsync,ssh and other commands.
When you receive and need to handle multiple text files that use characters that are not natural to the English language, you may run into the problem that is dealing with different character encodings. This is particularly noticeable in websites, where if the browser try to interpret the text file with an encoding that differs from the actual encoding that the file is using, we can see strange symbols where this characters were supposed to show, but it is not limited to websites, any program that is made to work with languages other than English may present a similar problem if it is not appropriately handled.