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Entries from January 2008

Find and Replace script for Linux

January 22nd, 2008 by EZ linux · No Comments

  Shell Script to Recursively Search and Replace on Linux Save the file in the directory you want to search and call it replace. —->>>do not add this line #!/bin/bash # This script will search and replace all regular files for a string # supplied by the user and replace it with another string. # [...]

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Tags: Linux Tricks

Linux Kernel Source Code Screensaver

January 22nd, 2008 by EZ linux · 1 Comment

  On Ubuntu, here’s how you install the phosphor screensaver: sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-data-extra Next we need to make sure that the Linux source code is installed on our system. Chances are your kernel source code will be installed in the /usr/src directory. If it’s not installed there, check with whoever maintains your distribution of [...]

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Forum Black List gets a needed update

January 18th, 2008 by EZ linux · No Comments

1/18/2008 Forum Black List gets a needed update ( www.forumblacklist.com ) Since the launch in 2006 www.forumblacklist.com has not been updated. The project ran by President and individual webmaster Charles Yarbrough ( www.charlesyarbrough.com ) was seem to be left aside until 1/17/2008 where the size of the blacklist became over 4 times it size according [...]

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Tags: Linux Security

Linux squeezes into connected devices

January 4th, 2008 by EZ linux · No Comments

OpenMoko, the open source Linux platform designed for mobile phones, has found its way into a connected GPS device as well as a consumer-friendly mobile phone, showing what Google’s Android could do if OpenMoko wasn’t already doing it. Realising that not everyone wants to compile their own kernel before making a call, OpenMoko has announced [...]

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