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 Find and/or Locate Files/Directories Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) servers have two really useful commands which help the user find files and/or directories … locate and find. Doubt there are many people out there who have not mislaid a computer file at some time or other. … Continue reading

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Mac Dictionary Primer Tutorial

Are you ever stuck for a word, or a word with the same meaning as some other word? … you need a dictionary, or a thesaurus. If you are on a Mac laptop, try the desktop application Dictionary, as shown … Continue reading

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Linux Crontab Curl Primer Tutorial

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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MySql on Command Line Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial follows up on MySql Stored Procedures Primer Tutorial as shown below, to illustrate that MySql database (and PHP server-side language) are friends of the command line, and you can use all these tools in batch processing, even though … Continue reading

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Java Command Line Arguments Primer Tutorial

If you are writing a batch process and have reached a process part requiring a compiled program (perhaps because this part has some CPU grunt associated with it) you can do a lot worse than use Java and allow user … Continue reading

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Web Server Access Primer Tutorial

When you maintain a Web Server there are lots of tools of use, but just what do you need to run an Apache/PHP/MySql web server? … Who’s smart idea was this? … … sun comes up … … sun goes … Continue reading

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Linux Monitor Processes Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) servers have a “top” command for monitoring processes. It’s top … chortle, chortle. When you are analyzing performance it can be that a live monitoring of a web server, for instance, might tell you more than a … Continue reading

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iWeb Primer Tutorial

Quite a while ago now was into iWeb and its impressively quick methods to construct a five (or so) webpage website. It attracted me with its colour and pizazz. Ended up using iWeb to construct this domain’s landing page, and … Continue reading

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