Globbing with zsh

Globbing with zsh

In a previous article we saw how to install and configure zsh, today we’ll see in detail the options offered by the zsh for globbing or how the shell use some special characters to auto-complete our commands. Please note: most command you’ll see here could be accomplished with particular switch of the command, for example […]

Wiimote on Gnu/Linux

Wiimote on Gnu/Linux

This article is based on the slide of Daniele Napolitano, and on his presentation on Linux Day 2009. The Wiimote is a revolutionary game controllers created by Nintendo for its Wii console and changed the concept of making the game player at the center of the physical interactions of the  video game. While in the […]

GNU/Linux Tools: Using IRC with ircII

GNU/Linux Tools: Using IRC with ircII

Author: Brett Johansen There are a bunch of IRC clients for Linux, but one of the oldest is ircII. You can find ircII, or just irc, on just about any version of Linux. To start irc, just type this in a terminal window: irc BobFromAccounting irc.freenode.net And the irc client should launch. If you get […]

PDF Reader for Linux

PDF Reader for Linux

Many people associate pdf to adobe reader, but is this the best reader of this type of documents that we have on Linux?. But in the while le’ts say that Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange. The file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 is used for representing two-dimensional […]