I recently was asked by a new Ubuntu user (also involved in web, graphic design, etc.), what some of the more common day to day commands I use are.
Many of these commands can increase productivity, etc. by making things (for me at least), easier to do. My system desktop has a transparent terminal integrated into
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SSH (Secure SHell) is possibly the best way to remotely access a Unix system – it’s very secure thanks to automatic encryption of all the traffic, and it’s also quite universal because you can do all sorts of things: access remote command line shell, forward graphics session output, establish network tunnels and set up port [...]
Recently I posted “Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux” and received a few messages asking what other tools I use. To save me time with answering email messages that essentially contain the same information, and to help the maximum number of readers, I thought it would be a [...]
This is just a short “quick fix” post.
For those who need it, here’s a quick fix when you get an error message like this:
“W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc1d_0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.2_amd64.deb Size mismatch”
It’s an error I received when the auto update feature was working in Ubuntu Linux. I double checked my sources.list file, but it was okay.
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