Posts tagged Tech
Tech Ed: Free ways to store your data online
Jul 5th
Tech Ed: Free ways to store your data online
One of the most common and frustrating aspects of owning personal and business computers is the loss of files when things break or viruses destroy them.
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Tech Comics: “How to Become Invaluable”
May 16th
Tech Comics: “How to Become Invaluable”
Tech Comics: “Upper management is important, but certain key tech staffers are far, far more important.”
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Fancy messing with Linux? Try Wubi! (One Minute Tech Video!)
Mar 24th
Subscribe for more 1 minute tech videos! A ‘just’ over the 1 minute limit tech video on how to install Linux through the program Wubi from INSIDE windows. Steps to take; 1) Go to your web-browser and navigate to the website; wubi.sourceforge.net 2) Click on the download now button, and then once the download has finished double click on the ‘Wubi.Exe’ file. 3) Select the Drive you wish to install Wubi onto, and then select the storage space you wish to allocate to your version of Linux – I would suggest a minimum of 10GB, yet on the contrary to what I have suggested in the video, 30GB would not really be necessary. 4) Select the version of Linux you would like to install – I would reccommend UBUNTU. 5) Set a password and click install! 6) Next time you restart windows – Use the directional arrows to choose Linux, and boot into Ubuntu! NOTE – The 15/20 minute install period I quoted in the video does not include the time it will take you to download the Linux.iso file which is necessary to install your chosen version of Linux from. This process I would imagine would take about a hour on most people’s internet connections. Thanks!
Tech Tip: Fun With Gawk
Mar 6th
Tech Tip: Add Latitude/Longitude Information to Photos
Feb 14th
I wanted to store geolocation information in the photos I take with my
digital camera. That way I wouldn’t have to specify the photo locations
manually when I upload them to the Picasa webpage. Since my
camera doesn’t have built in GPS support, I wrote this script to add the
location information to the pictures when they are on the computer already. more>>
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Tech Tip: Periodically Update Your MOTD with update-motd
Feb 14th
This tech tip provides you with information on how to customize your
motd (Message Of The Day) message to display the output of one or more scripts.
This uses the update-motd package, which updates the motd message when run.
I use this method on Ubuntu 9.10, but not all systems provide this
package so extra effort may be required to use it on other systems. more>>
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Tech Tip: Dereference Variable Names Inside Bash Functions
Feb 10th
We often read (including in the book
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper)
that if we pass variable names as parameters to functions,
they will be treated as string literals and cannot be dereferenced
(ie the value is not available). But this is not so, variable names
can be passed as parameters to functions and they can be
dereferenced to obtain the value of the variable with the given name.
more>>
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