 Tips, Tricks and Myths archive |
| • Tips and tricks (2026-02-16): Command line tips and tricks for 2026 |
| • Tips and tricks (2026-02-09): Sharing files on a home network |
| • Tips and tricks (2025-12-08): Fun command line tricks |
| • Tips and tricks (2025-10-20): Creating and restoring encrypted backups |
| • Tips and tricks (2025-10-06): Using SQLite to manage ZIP files |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2025-09-15): Open source and central authority |
| • Tips and tricks (2025-09-01): Malware warnings about Linux ISO files |
| • Tips and tricks (2025-01-13): Silly things to do with a PinePhone (or other minimal computer) |
| • Tips and tricks (2025-01-06): Filtering ads with a Pi-hole |
| • Tips and tricks (2024-10-07): Unified package management vs universal package formats |
| • Tips and tricks (2024-08-05): Making snapshots of UFS on FreeBSD |
| • Tips and tricks (2024-07-22): Port knocking and other ways to protect OpenSSH |
| • Tips and tricks (2024-07-08): Changing init software after a distribution has been installed |
| • Tips and tricks (2023-06-19): A safer way to use dd |
| • Tips and tricks (2022-02-07): UBports as a home server with media sharing |
| • Tips and tricks (2021-11-01): Finding the right words, sorting filesystem snapshots, truncating audio files |
| • Tips and tricks (2021-07-12): Navigating multiple shells |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2021-05-31): Does physical access mean root access? |
| • Tips and tricks (2020-10-12): Compressing memory with zRAM |
| • Tips and tricks (2020-07-06): Rescuing encrypted home directory data |
| • Tips and tricks (2020-05-25): Creating, removing, modifying, and ignoring aliases |
| • Tips and tricks (2020-02-03): Dealing with low-memory performance |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-11-11): Monitoring and recording user activity |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-11-04): Manipulating PDFs |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-10-07): How to find files by multiple criteria in Linux |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-09-09): Command line tips - using ffmpeg, awk and renice |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-08-26): How to check the licenses of kernel modules |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-08-12): How to find files |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-07-22): Limiting a user's disk usage with quotas |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-06-24): Running Android applications on GNU/Linux with Anbox |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-05-20): Overview of options for running open Linux distros on mobile devices (2019 edition) |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-04-29): Creating a SOCKS proxy for web browsing |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-04-22): Simple rsync examples |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-04-08): A journey to get Falkon 3.1.0 running and problems with portable packages |
| • Tips and tricks (2019-02-18): What being free, stable and light-weight mean |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-11-26): Default passwords on live media |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-11-19): Bash command line short-cuts and tips |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-08-20): Limiting resource usage |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-07-16): Managing boot environments with zedenv |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-06-11): OpenSSH, pipes and file transfers |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-06-04): An overview of hard and soft links |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-05-28): Gathering system information |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-05-21): Finding which services were affected by an update |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-05-07): Live upgrading Raspbian |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-04-16): Fix filenames, manage networks from the command line and more command line tips |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2018-02-05): Wayland, Xorg and Mir |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-01-08): Adding an AppImage to the application menu |
| • Tips and tricks (2018-01-01): Managing multimedia files |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-12-18): Tools for rescuing the operating system and data files |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-12-11): Working with images from the command line |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-12-04): Keep terminal programs running, using the at command, reverse OpenSSH connections |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-11-06): Quick tricks to fix small problems on Linux |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-10-23): Building software with Ravenports |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-10-16): Running the Linux-libre kernel |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-09-11): Running Plex Media Server on a Raspberry Pi |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-09-04): Void source packages |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2017-08-07): Unity, Mir and Ubuntu Touch |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-07-10): Gathering system information with osquery |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-06-19): Combining commands in the shell |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-05-29): Waking up your computer remotely |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-04-24): Nix package manager on alternative Linux distributions |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-04-03): Advanced file systems, network traffic, running a script at login/logout |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2017-03-20): Linux Mint's security record |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2017-02-27): Can Netflix run on a Raspberry Pi? |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-02-20): Shell switching, battery charge, getting the system's IP address and dealing with stubborn processes |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-02-13): Package compression compared |
| • Tips and tricks (2017-01-30): Running Ubuntu Touch on an Android phone |
| • Tips and tricks (2016-11-28): Transitioning from PC-BSD to TrueOS |
| • Tips and tricks (2016-09-05): Copying columns of text, organizing files, creating torrents |
| • Tips and tricks (2016-08-22): More utilities via moreutils |
| • Tips and tricks (2016-08-08): Play nicely, drop secure shell sessions cleanly, check init's name |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2016-08-01): The massive memory myth |
| • Tips and tricks (2016-04-04): Command line weather, ionice, rename files, video preview snapshot, calendar, ls colour settings |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2016-03-21): The value of version numbers |
| • Tips and tricks (2016-03-14): Verifying ISO images |
| • Tips and tricks (2016-02-22): The Firejail security sandbox |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2015-12-21): The spread of systemd and launchd |
| • Tips and tricks (2015-08-24): Improved package stability coming to FreeBSD/PC-BSD |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2015-06-15): sudo |
| • Tips and tricks (2015-05-25): Ubuntu's Snappy package manager |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2015-05-18): GPL |
| • Myths and misunderstandings (2015-04-20): ZFS |
| • Tips and tricks (2015-04-06): GRUB Customizer |
| • Tips and tricks (2015-03-02): Choosing good passwords |
| • Tips and tricks (2014-03-31): Hiding processes from other users, get geographical location of IP address |
| • Tips and tricks (2011-09-12): Working with media files on command line |
| • Tips and tricks (2011-08-08): (Xfce) interface woes |
| • Tips and tricks (2011-07-25): Basename, for loop, dirname, aliases, bash history, xsel clipboard |
| • Tips and tricks (2011-05-16): File encryption and cloud backup |
| • Tips and tricks (2011-04-18): Compiling the Linux kernel |
| • Tips and tricks (2011-04-11): All about package signing |
| • Tips and tricks (2011-04-04): Creating bootable USB drives with UNetbootin |
| • Tips and tricks (2011-03-07): Using the Secure Shell |
| • Tips and tricks (2010-12-20): Find common words in text, find high memory processes, cd short-cuts, pushd & popd, record desktop |
| • Tips and tricks (2010-11-15): Check free disk space, wait for a process, command line spell-check, shutdown PC when CPU gets hot |
| • Tips and tricks (2009-08-17): Running Fedora "Rawhide" |
| • Tips and tricks (2009-06-01): Running openSUSE "Factory" |
| • Tips and tricks (2009-05-11): Running Mandriva "Cooker" |
| • Tips and tricks (2009-04-20): Reverting to older kernel under Ubuntu |
| • Tips and tricks (2006-09-18): Extracting package lists from various distributions |
| • Tips and tricks (2006-05-01): Using GRUB with XFS |
| • Tips and tricks (2005-08-08): Konqueror & Kate make an excellent remote admin team... and a killer casserole |
| • Tips and tricks (2005-07-25): Digital cameras, mobile phones and music players under Linux |
| • Tips and tricks (2005-07-18): Restoring partition table |
| • Tips and tricks (2005-04-18): Gftp and Sftp - Like Peanut Butter and Jelly |
| • Tips and tricks (2005-04-11): Copying a VCD |
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