I don’t understand why some people think this is a complicated thing to set up, so here goes my approach which I think is the easiest method.  Perhaps you’re behind a very restrictive corporate firewall or you want to conserve bandwidth when you’re setting up several machines.  You can set …

You can take several regular pictures or other image files and put them together into one image that looks like they’re all polaroids laid out on a desk using ImageMagick’s montage tool.  If you have a dual monitor setup you can easily fit 8 across your screens at once without …

My perfect setup at work is two mrxvt’s side-by-side to handle all my terminal needs.  Here’s the string I use to run ‘em just like I like ‘em.  The 110×75 geometry is for two windows taking up most of the space on one screen of my 3200×1200 display, leaving the …

I love dd. Why mess with the clutter and bloat of backup software when all you really want is a simple image for those times when you accidentally wipe out something important or a hard drive goes plonk. dd to the rescue! It’s easy to use, very straight forward, …

I just got WordPress installed and completely forgot to change the random password it started me off with to something I might have a chance of remembering.  So to change it, I opened a terminal and changed the password field for the account I just created in mysql.  Here’s how:
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