Linuxaria

Article by Ankur Aggarwal, owner of the Blog http://flossstuff.wordpress.com Sometimes we want our Linux box to speak to/for us.This ability is very useful to make announcements and alerts in case of many critical events in our machines or can be used just for sheer fun. There exists a command line synthesized known as eSpeak that […]

Yesterday I’ve done an introduction to EncFS, a Free (GPL) FUSE-based cryptographic filesystem that transparently encrypts files, using an arbitrary directory as storage for the encrypted files. i’ve show how install and use it from the command line, but there is also an easier way to integrate it with your Desktop: Cryptkeeper. Cryptkeeper is a […]

by Frank Harris-Smith The Internet is a great place to scratch the itch of curiosity. I’d heard some interesting things about Arch Linux so I Googled it. I wanted to know what the Distro was all about and a bit of it’s history. I accidentally discovered The GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline which informed me where Arch […]

We are in December and for this month i suggest to keep an eye on the site: http://sysadvent.blogspot.com This site it’s a sysadmin relative of the Perl Advent Calendar: One article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article. With the goals of of sharing, openness, and mentoring, the authors aim to provide great articles […]

After the update to Ubuntu 11.10 my wireless goes up and down, and so i’m trying to debug this problem looking into dmesg. But this brought me to another small issue, dmesg prints timestamps in the form of seconds.nanoseconds since the system booted. And no, there seems to be no -h option to make it […]