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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.
#
#
function usage {
echo “”
echo “Search/replace script revised by [...]

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Tags: Linux Tricks

Linux Kernel Source Code Screensaver

January 22nd, 2008 by EZ linux · No Comments

 
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 Linux to find [...]

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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 to the [...]

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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 the [...]

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Tags: Linux News