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Howto: Facebook Messenger on the command line

September 22, 2018September 23, 2018 Alistair Ross
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Just as you thought life at the command line couldn’t get any weirder, it’s now possible to chat to your Facebook buddies on the command line whilst you geek out on your bash scripts! Here’s how […]

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Monthly Tutorials: Handy Tutorials for March

March 12, 2017March 12, 2017 Alistair Ross
As much as possible, the Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide scours the net to find the best in guides, tips, tricks and tutorials. This month, we've found the following guides which you'll no doubt find helpful.

As much as possible, the Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide scours the net to find the best in guides, tips, tricks and tutorials. This month, we’ve found the following guides which you’ll no doubt find helpful. […]

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How to setup a KVM server the fast way

May 25, 2016 Alistair Ross
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This is a very short quick setup on how to get KVM (The Linux Kernel Virtual Machine hypervisor) server up and running. Why KVM? KVM is a hypervisor, just like VmWare ESX, Microsoft’s Hyper-V and […]

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Quick Tip: convert images at the command line with ImageMagick

January 25, 2016 Alistair Ross
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ImageMagick is a very mature tool. It’s been around for donkeys years and it even acts as the silent ‘back end’ to some of the best GUI-based image manipulation software. However, the jewel in ImageMagick’s […]

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How to tar (compress) files up, excluding certain files or directories

February 24, 2015January 3, 2016 Alistair Ross
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If you’ve ever been making a backup of an entire Linux system, or maybe just a number of folders but there were certain folders or files that you didn’t want to have in the backup […]

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Using Google Drive from the Linux Command Line

February 24, 2015January 3, 2016 Alistair Ross

GDrive Gdrive is a command line tool which manages, uploads, downloads, deletes and shares files on Google Drive. You can download the tool from Github at https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive. Unfortunately it does not support file synchronisation. Installation Download the […]

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Multi-Tasking at the command line with screenie

December 28, 2014January 3, 2016 Alistair Ross

The use of the tool screen is well documented throughout the Internet, however it’s third-party accomplice is not. Screenie is a front-end to screen. Why Do I want to know about this? Using the command […]

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