Everybody dreads it. When you see it, it is difficult to know what to do. Luckily Unix provides utilities which allow us to traverse the filesystem and parse files quickly and effortlessly.

Here's a search command which will search all your log files for keywords such as shutdown, poweroff, and panic.

This will allow you to narrow which log files you...

Recently I've been using openbox but it has been driving me crazy! Mainly because when you hold down a key it does not repeat like it does on all other WMs and OSs. After googling around forever I found I can enable my auto repeating keys in ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh with the following code.
Handy.

Recently (within the past year) I have helped a user with a problem converting hundreds of images into individual PDF files. I was pleasantly surprised to find imagemagick to effortlessly do this.

Command line tool imagemagick does what you need if they're images.
Installation:
Usage: (coverts all images into one pdf)
Usage: (converts each image into an individual pdf)
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A password can be easy to create if you use the right devices to remember it.

Method number 1: use a sentence
For example your password could be a sentence:
Dictionary attacks only work if your password is a single word. For that previous password a dictionary attack wouldn't work so a cracker would either have to resort to rainbow tables or brute force.

Method number 2: start and end all passwords with the same sequence....

Today I had to zip up about 50 folders and upload them to a software directory for my work. That's a huge hassle and they didn't need to be in any particular order. The names of the zip files had to be the same name as the folder so that made my life easier. I zipped them all, moved them into a filestoupload folder and then uploaded them.

A process which would have taken 10-20 minutes on a Windows machine took less than a minute of my precious time on my Linux box. For most of...