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A modern teenager tries something radically different by doing all the normal internet functions: social networking, music, programming, AIM/MSN/Yahoo, IRC, all through nothing but a Linux command line. And he's doing it for 30 days. No GUIS. At all.

Applications can create a lot of temporary files sometimes, and these files aren’t always cleaned up automatically. An example of this is when you run Python applications. Particularly if you’re a Python developer, your source code directories stack up with a .pyc version of each file, which is the cached compiled copy of the script.

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Windows only: When you've got a file with an extension you don't recognize, the free command line tool TrID can help. We've covered how to use the web to find out what kind of file you have, but TrID...

The trash project allows you to interact with your desktop trashcan from the command line. It lets users "undo" deletions made with the trash command in a similar manner to restoring files from the trashcan in a desktop environment. For experienced Linux users, the trash command comes in handy when you want to put a file into the trashcan from the command line.

There's currently no Apple-provided method to securely erase your iPhone's data, and previous owners' data has been found on refurbished phones on sale at Apple. If you want to make your iPhone safe...

Mac user Adam Laiacano came up with a neat way to embed his iCal calendar on his desktop—in text, using our favorite text calendar, Remind. You've already seen how to keep your calendar in...

Sick of all those fancy CD-burning apps not working for you? You need something that just gets the work done? Welcome to BashBurn. An easy to use cd burner for the command line. No cryptic commands to type, just menu selections.

The How-To Geek technology weblog highlights an incredibly handy Windows Vista feature that opens a command prompt in any system path through a simple shortcut: Shift-Right-click. Let's say, for...

A very quick command line tip today, for users of pretty much any Unix-based operating system, including Linux distributions. When you're looking up information on a certain web site or domain name, you might be used to using whois functions on websites such as to see who owns a domain.

The default prompt in Windows' Command Prompt isn't the easiest to read, but Microsoft has a font, Consolas, that works much better in a terminal, as attested to by our commenters. The Digital...

Computer working environments are pretty similar to the species on this planet. One can see ancient species, that have survived millions of years, living along some fairly-recent ones like humans.

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Now you can truly see why our commenters dubbed Python the programming language that "can do anything." One intrepid (and hungry) hacker, possibly named Nick Jensen, put together a small script that...

Linux is a “unix-like” operating system while Mac OS X is based on BSD Unix, and as such they are basically cousins

There are a number of tools that ship with your Mac by default, and others that are included on the installation media that can be used to remotely administer SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Machines from your Mac.

If you are baseball lover and you want to check the baseball scores for your favourite team score from command line use the following procedure.

If you plain just struggle with VIM or you are looking to get better at it then tune into Zonker’s slide deck here

He talks about tabbing, gvim,  Abbreviations, Mappings, Viewports, Marks, Jumps, Folding, VIM scripts,  easy mode :),  and hacking your .vimrc

Become the VIM expert you always wanted to be.

Enjoy!