Quick tip for everyone who is using Mac OS X, Unix, or anything with bash. If you want to mass rename a bunch of files, there isn’t a simple way of doing it. Either you would have to do it manually1 or you could use this simple line of code.
ls ryan.* | awk ‘{print("mv "$1" [...]
I’ve been asked several times about how I set up my Conky. First a little about Conky. It is a light-weight system monitor, according to their website, but you can do much more. You can show basic system stats to grab RSS Feeds to show your Media Player (Amarok for me) status.
Now onto my configurations. [...]
Ever wanted to know what applications are actually installed on your system? Sure you can view the applications via the applications bar, but there are so many other applications not shown there.
Also, what if you have your system with all the applications you want and want to install them again on another pc (or after [...]
Britt Selvitelle writes on how to combine Google Calendar and Ubuntu. His post is based on Bryan Clark’s post on Mashing Google Calendar and GNOME.
Let’s get down to business.
First open up a terminal by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal (in Ubuntu) or press Alt + F2 and type in terminal. Now that you [...]
There is a quick way to change your default editor, whichever you want.
First open up a terminal by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal (in Ubuntu) or press Alt + F2 and type in terminal. Now that you have a terminal open, let’s get down to viewing your history.
Open up .bashrc by typing:
gedit ~/.bashrc
Now [...]