Category Archives: Operating System

An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs ( Wikipedia )

Linux awk Primer Tutorial

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The Linux (or unix) command awk is a powerful command line tool which opens up a whole world of possibilities on the command line and is specially suited to be part of a piped command. The use of awk allows … Continue reading →

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Local Webserver Search Engine Primer Tutorial

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This topic got my immediate interest when reading a chapter (16) in Linux by Steve Oualline and Eric Foster-Johnson called “Setting Up a Search Engine”. As a creator of web content, who wouldn’t want to know something about this subject? … Continue reading →

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Linux Crontab Korn Shell Script Primer Tutorial

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Linux (or Unix) is a command line environment that supports interactive and non-interactive task management. Often non-interactive tasks are known as batch processes, often intended not to rely on any user intervention, unless there is a problem. Today, in this … Continue reading →

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Windows Right Click Primer Tutorial

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If you’ve used Windows (by Microsoft) as a desktop/laptop operating system a lot and then switch to a Mac OS X environment new to you, for a while, you miss a lot of the features of Windows. As with many … Continue reading →

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Files Since Primer Tutorial

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A while ago we spoke of the Linux commands find and locate in Linux Find and/or Locate Files/Directories Primer Tutorial as shown below. After that you may have been thinking “That’s it! No more carrying on about directory listings and … Continue reading →

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XWindows Primer Tutorial

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The XWindow System is a windowing system most commonly found on unix or Linux operating systems. On the Mac OS X Linux system this XWindow System may be called X11, or more recently XQuartz. At one stage it was more … Continue reading →

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VB.Net Console Application Primer Tutorial

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Today we follow up on a Yahoo Answers question here (thanks) to investigate the simplest VB.Net project idea using the Windows .Net Framework IDE called Visual Studio … namely, the Console Application. This Console Application project type in Visual Studio … Continue reading →

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Java Cut and Paste Primer Tutorial

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The clipboard is an important part of the GUI aspects to Windows and Mac OS X, and even non-GUI DOS windows or Unix/Linux console windows would have functionality to cut, paste and copy string data. Today’s Java program shows cut … Continue reading →

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