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Archos announced a new line of low-end devices this year and among them is an Android Notebook. ArcBook is a 10.1-inch notebook that will be available for purchase next month. It will be sold for about $169.99 and it doesn’t look too much of a contender for the big...

I just installed crashplan on a new linux headless server and it refused to backup, I checked logs and found it was having issues with the noexec flag on my /tmp/ folder. so I created a new tmp folder and told it where to access it. In this article I give simple...

sometimes you want to find a bunch of empty sub-directories and delete them well heres a simple piece of shell code that will accomplish that for you. [crayon-5c19c374a91f6416781328/] This CAN and WILL destroy all your data and eat your small { dog | cat | turtle |...

An introduction to the CLI (Command Line Interface) and Bash on Ubuntu Linux aka a bash tutorial The default shell that is installed on Ubuntu Linux is bash. Alternatives exist, but they’re beyond the scope of this tutorial (check our post here for more info on how to...

Want to keep lots of logs, yet don't want them cluttering up your logs directory and want them taking as little space as possible? well lets use a handy utility called logrotate and a compression utility called xz. xz is a lossless data compression program and file...

Swiftkey was an amazing keyboard that usurped swype as my default keyboard, I loved its predictions, its swiping to type tech and its overall layout and features. For a long time it worked great, then I grew enamored with other keyboards and moved on. Recently...