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  • Top Ten Reasons For Learning Damn Small Linux - Number 1, It's Free - Are you old enough to remember the 1992 Janet Jackson song entitled The Best Things In Life Are Free? Or maybe you are so old that you can remember the 1956 Hollywood movie of the same name. In any case we do not guarantee that you will find Damn Small Linux and our associated tutorials to be among the best things in your life. But we do guarantee that they are both completely free.
  • Top Ten Reasons To Learn Damn Small Linux - Number 2, Lots Of Free Applications - Don't misunderstand. Microsoft Windows comes with plenty of free applications. The most widely used freebie is Internet Explorer. To find most of the others go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, and start clicking. Outside of Internet Explorer how many free Windows applications do you actually use? When you feel like word processing do you fire up Notepad, Word Pad, or Microsoft Word? Guess which two of these word processors are free. Equipping an office with the standard Windows applications is an expensive activity. Some Microsoft applications make you pay first for the software itself and then for licensing fees when you connect your Microsoft client computer to a Microsoft server computer.
  • Damn Small Linux Text Processing - Damn Small Linux can be an excellent tool for learning Linux commands and running the Linux operating system. But what if you don't want to be a computer nerd; can this software still be useful? The answer is a resounding yes; you can make use of this tiny operating system whether or not you want to learn the sometimes gruesome details of operating systems. This article introduces the text editors that come with your free Damn Small Linux that runs on even obsolete Windows computers. You can use these applications to compose simple text or programs of any level of complexity. Once you have downloaded and installed Damn Small Linux there are several equivalent ways of launching its text editors. You can click on the DSL button in the lower-left hand corner or on the Apps icon toward the top of the screen.
  • Top Ten Reasons For Learning Linux - Number 3, Internet Integration - And here is today's technology history lesson. No, Bill Gates and Microsoft did not invent the Internet. In fact, these visionaries actually jumped aboard the information highway fairly late after vainly trying to counterpose their own MSN to the Internet. In contrast Unix computers have been accessing the Internet and what's more running the Internet for decades. Unix and the Internet have had plenty of time to evolve together. Of course you can access the Internet from Windows with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and numerous other browsers.
  • The Top Ten Reasons For Learning Linux, Number 10 A Potpourri Of Reasons - And we now complete our series comparing Linux to Windows. This article lists and briefly describes several additional advantages of Linux. We would not be surprised if Linux buffs come up with still other advantages that are not mentioned here. When you seriously get into Linux you become a member of a special community. Whenever you have a Linux problem you can go to an on-line forum. It usually isn't very long before someone has the answer. You have full access to the complete Linux operating system. You can learn how things actually work. If you enjoy working with some relatively sophisticated, mathematical issues Linux is for you. And remember, what seems to be geeky and oh-so theoretical can have very practical applications.
  • Yet Another Reason To Learn Linux - Linux Certifications - There are currently four programs that enable people to become certified as Linux Systems Administrators. These programs are offered by the Computing Technology Industry Association, the Linux Professional Institute, the Novell Corporation, and Red Hat, Inc. The first two are professional industry associations whose certification programs do not depend on any specific Linux distribution. Novell and Red Hat Linux certifications are closely associated with their popular Linux distributions. Should you wish to prepare for either of these two certifications you will definitely need access to their Linux version. What do you have to do for Linux Certification? You must pass one or more extensive tests that demonstrate your prowess in dealing with the typical and some atypical problems faced by Linux systems administrators. We'll take a closer look at the CompTIA Linux+™
  • The Top Ten Concepts For Linux Newbies - Number 6, Kernel And Processes - A process is a program in execution. Unix was designed to handle multiple processes. Linux follows this excellent tradition. The operating system gives users and particularly the root user control over processes. Let's take a closer look at processes and what they mean to users.
  • The Top Ten Concepts For Linux Beginners - Number 7, Runs On Obsolete Computers - When it comes to the environment do you want to be part of the solution and not part of the problem? If you don't want to be part of the problem don't toss that supposedly outdated computer onto a landfill.
  • Top Ten Concepts For Linux Beginners - Number 2, Directories - Linux people like to claim that directories are just another type of file. This statement can be misleading. We saw in the previous article that you use a file editor to create a file. We will see later in this article how to create a directory. So what exactly is a Linux directory? A directory is a collection that may include one or more directories, one or more files, or in fact be empty. You may think of a directory as a computerized file folder or loose-leaf notebook that contains dividers (themselves directories) and pages (files.) Just like a notebook page may not contain a divider, a Linux file may not contain a directory. Up to now our comments concerning Linux directories hold for Windows directories as well. Now let's take a look at some differences between these two systems.

  • The Top Ten Reasons For Learning Linux, Number 8, More Control Over The Computer - Linux has dozens and dozens of commands that enable you to control your computer to a degree far exceeding the possibilities of Windows systems. For example, let's take the ls command which lists files and directories.
  • Top Ten Concepts For Linux Beginners - Number 1, Files - Of course as a Microsoft Windows user you are familiar with the concept of files. This familiarity means you won't have to start from zero to learn about Linux files. However, you will have to relearn several concepts and techniques to apply files in the Linux environment, whether using Damn Small Linux or other versions. You can do several great things with Linux files that can't be done easily or at all under Windows. This could mean yet another reason to switch from Windows to Linux. Files have unique names. This rule is not as simple as it may seem.
  • The Top Ten Concepts For Linux Beginners - Number 7, Shells And Utilities - A shell is the command interpreter program that serves as an interface between some users and the operating system itself. We say some users because most users rely on the graphical user interface.
  • Free Damn Small Linux Games - Part 1 - Damn Small Linux can be an excellent tool for learning Linux commands and running the Linux operating system. But what if you are not interested in becoming a computer nerd; can this software still be useful to regular people? The answer is a resounding yes; you can make use of this tiny operating system whether or not you want to learn the sometimes gruesome details of operating systems. This article presents several free games that are immediately available once you have downloaded and installed Damn Small Linux.
  • The Top Ten Concepts For Linux Beginners - Number 8, Programming Language Support - Damn Small Linux can be an ideal platform for supporting a wide range of programming languages. You can even program directly from the command line via a programming shell such as Bash. Major programming languages used in this environment include C, C++, and Java.
  • The Top Ten Concepts For Beginners to Linux - Number 3, Users - Unlike Windows, Linux users must have an account. This account is accorded permissions such as reading and writing files and executing programs. Accounts are combined into groups to simplify their management. Users who are members of a given group may be assigned additional permissions that smooth the process of accessing common files. Let's take a closer look at how Linux handles these users. A future article examines permissions and groups.
  • The Top Ten Reasons For Learning Linux, Number 4 Enhanced Virus Resistance - Let's start by mentioning some facts that may be very disconcerting to die-hard Linux and Unix fans. Serious computer viruses appeared first in Unix systems. And what may have been the worst computer virus attack in history occurred on Unix systems about twenty years ago. Fortunately the lessons learned from this attack were integrated into the constantly evolving Unix and Linux systems. To some extent they have been integrated into protecting Windows systems, and that's also good news. One of the reasons Linux surpasses Windows for virus resistance is that it, Linux, is open source. When an attack occurs hundreds if not thousands of techies start working on solutions and post them to the Internet.
  • Top The Ten Reasons For Learning Damn Small Linux - Number 5, Linux, Apache, and MySQL - Linux and Windows have many things in common. For example, most people aren't very interested in knowing how they work. Both of these operating systems make the computer available for the applications that people want to apply; such as running an Internet server, browsing the Internet, creating and accessing data bases, writing programs, playing music, or, or, or. All these tasks are coordinated by the operating system and require specialized programs that drive hardware efficiently and correctly. We'll talk about Linux's closely integrated "friends" and compare them to the similar but oh so different Microsoft offerings. The Linux group is called LAMP, an acronym standing for Linux, Apache, MySql, and PHP.
  • My Top Ten Reasons For Learning Linux, Number 6, Linux And PHP - In this article we examine some programming languages used to build dynamic websites that interact with databases. These languages run on the web server. They are a major step up from traditional web page development languages such as HTML which run on the client computers. The Open Source product is PHP (which stands for Hypertext Preprocessor in case you wanted to know). The Microsoft competitors are ASP (Active Server Pages) and ASP.NET (Active Server Pages in the Microsoft .NET environment.) ASP.NET is more expensive, more complicated, and more powerful than its sibling. For simplicity's sake we refer to Microsoft's offerings as ASP. As you know PHP is free. ASP is also free but to run it you may need Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Server) which is not free.
  • The Top Ten Concepts For Linux Beginners - Number 5, Inodes - Many aspects of Linux functionality are found, albeit in a different form in Windows. Inodes, the subject of this article, are an exception to this rule. Given the practicality of inodes, Windows now contains an imitation of this functionality.
  • The Top Ten Concepts For Beginning Linux Users - Number 4, Permissions And Groups - The easiest way for you to learn Linux permissions is to study an example. The ls -l command generates a list of contents, such as files along with their permissions. Let's examine the default values for a file called Filename. We have added spaces to make the output more legible. - rw- r-- r-- other information about the file Filename The initial - signifies that this is a file (not a directory). The next three characters refer to the file permissions for the file owner, in many cases the person who created the file. The values rw- signify that the owner has read and write (modify) permission but not execute permission.
  • Linux - Eminent Choice Or Not? - Linux has been something like monotony nowadays. Its fame makes it being the talk of the town - various Linux downloads, Linux programs, etc... And what's great about this is - it's all for free! However, free programs or software would always come to an end due to the rising number of users as well as the demands them constantly plea. There will really come a time that some of them will be priced just right for its effectiveness and usage.
  • Linux vs Windows Web Hosting - When choosing a web hosting solution the first thing you should consider is the proper operating system for your project. The major hosting operating systems include Microsoft Windows and Linux. There are also solutions possible through Unix and Macintosh but these are less popular due to hardware and software support.
  • MySQL And LAMP Software - MySQL is the world's most commonly used database management system. Even fairly inexperienced people can use this software on its own or as part of dynamic web sites for virtually any database application under the Sun (this is an inside joke which will be explained below.) This article introduces MySQL and its companions. First we will discuss a bit of its history. SQL is short for Structured Query Language. This language dates back to 1970 in a paper written by Dr. E. F. Codd, researcher at IBM. This ground-breaking paper described the theoretical foundations of relational databases, databases that are based on tables.
  • Linux Hosting Solutions for Domain Hosting Services - An introduction: First of all we have to introduce in World Wide Web hosting services provider - Hosting24hour.com is a leading web hosting services provider in the world. We offer all kinds of affordable quality Linux hosting services in our network to grow your business and web site hosting solutions. Before choosing reliable web hosting solutions for your company web site, you have taken a look at some points and not to confuse you about hosting services. The web pages are designed with various software platforms. This can be done using the Windows or Linux platforms, too.
  • Why You Should Learn MySQL - MySQL is the most widely used database management language. With this program even inexperienced programmers can create and modify databases consisting of multiple tables. For example, a database for a personnel-staffing organization might contain several tables including a table of available jobs, a table of available employers, and a table of staffing consultants.
  • Why Learn PHP - PHP is the most widely used web scripting language. This great software enables even relatively inexperienced programmers to develop dynamic web sites for virtually any web application. In a nutshell that's why you should learn it. Don't let anyone tell you that learning PHP is a piece of cake. Like any other programming language, mastering PHP is not a simple task. In spite of any promises, you won't become a master in 48 hours. So let's take a closer look at why you should make the commitment to learn this language. But first a word of encouragement, you won't have to master this extensive language to see the benefits. Let's look briefly at what you need to develop and test PHP programs.
  • Compatibility Contrast Of Old Games Between Linux And Vista - Although Linux could run software games basing on Windows through Wine simulator, it is no doubt that compatibility is probably not very good. Some games based on Windows XP platform could not run in Vista, but they could create miracles in Linux system.
  • Linux: Find Files Containing Text - Because of our being forgetful in nature, we oftentimes forget the files that we have created. We can only be fortunate if we can still remember the path, folder, or directory where we have stored those missing files. If that's the case, it would never be a big deal then. However, trully this a big problem and even painful if we can't even remember where we have placed the missing files in our computer. "Simple," I'm hearing you... "find it." Yeah, we can find it. But wait, do you know the filename?
  • Linux Web Hosting Pakistan - It was originally designed for the Intel x86 platforms. Now, it is also available for Intel, Mac, alpha, various embedded devices, and a lot of other platforms.
  • Personal Knowledge Of Free Software Development Works! - SCO also sent a letter to some 1,500 commercial users of Linux distributions, warning them that Linux may be an unauthorized derivative of code owned by SCO. That is, SCO alleges that Linux actually to some extent is owned by SCO and may not be distributed under the GPL. The letter further claims that users of Linux may have legal liability because of this. I remember the AT&T case against BSDI and the University of California, which arguably stalled BSD development for a few years. Indeed, it arguably was the root cause of Lenox’s popularity, because Linux development was not stalled.
  • PHP And LAMP Software - PHP is the most widely used web scripting language. It enables even relatively inexperienced programmers to develop dynamic web sites for virtually any web application under the Sun (this is an inside joke which will be explained below.) This article introduces PHP and its companions. First we will discuss a bit of its history. PHP originally meant Personal Home Page when first created in 1994 right around the time that graphical web browsers started to bloom. It is a good thing that the name was changed.
  • What Happens When You Default on your Student Loans? - part 4/4 - I ignored (didn't pay) my student loan for years - many years. This was back in the old days (20 years ago) before the government was so efficient at collecting their (your) money. Nothing much happened. OK, so one day years later, they found my bank account and froze it. Cost me a few hundred dollars. I'll survive. And then, they started taking my income tax return money. Damn! That hurt. But Life goes on... Life is good, All is well! But then one day, years later. Big Brother (your Uncle Sam) Returns! I had learned not to keep too much money in the bank (didn't have much anyway). And I learned not to expect any money back from income taxes.
  • Why Your Website Needs Managed Linux Hosting - Managed hosting is a type of outsourcing to ensure that your business websites function correctly 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
  • They Tell Me Only To Use Microsoft Windows Not The Free Linux Operating System - Most people purchase computers to run programs – whether it is to send email, browse the web, meet friends of girlfriends on msn messenger, do office work or just play solitaire. People buy computers to use programs for their functionality not to run operating systems be in Microsoft Windows, the new Microsoft Vista product , the Mac Operations Systems or the various Linux Operating Systems – be they Ubuntu Linux , Mandiva , Knoppix or Debian. At the heart of most computer users is functionality and usability. It is as simple as that. It is an interesting situation that the Microsoft Corporation controls the vast lion’s share of the computer operating system market.
  • Microsoft Windows vs Linux - The Fundamental Issue - The comparison of these two operating systems (OS) and the debates which developed have been ongoing for years. Clashing opinions have recently heated up and received even greater exposure due to the One Laptop per Child's XO vs. Intel's Classmate issues. (Two competing low priced laptops intended for use by children in developing remote areas.) XO choosing to use Linux and Classmate choosing to use Windows has fueled the debate as if the OS created and marketed these laptops themselves! The fundamental difference between these two systems is Microsoft Windows is closed source while Linux is open source. Once computer software is written it can be copied and reproduced at a very low cost. Or the original source code can have a large commercial value by keeping it hidden and treating it as a trade secret.
  • Dream has revolutionized the HDTV market - Dream has revolutionized the HDTV market First ever HDTV cable and satelitte receiver with hard drive and burner build-in Lünen, 19. Aug 2008. Dream, the leading producer of Linux-based set-top boxes, such as the Dreambox 500C, Dreambox 500S, Dreambox 500T, Dreambox 600 and the Dreambox 7020, has once again demonstrated its innovative ability when it comes to satelitte and cable receivers. The Dream DM 8000 is the first Linux-based set-top box for high-definition television, equipped with four Plug&Play tuners to ensure it is ready for any future challenges.
  • PHP Certification - If you are interested in becoming a PHP professional, you should really consider PHP Certification. Certification means passing a single exam that consists of 50 to 70 multiple-choice questions. This exam was developed by the creator of the PHP language.
  • Web Hosting, PHP vs ASP - Web pages used to be simple affairs, where everything you needed to do could be done in HTML, there was really one set of rules and one set of expectations. Today's world is far more complex. Web pages can be more complex and customers expect more from web pages. Terms like PHP and ASP now compete with HTML when starting a web page and it can be hard to figure out what option best suits your needs. If you've ever driven an import car, you can appreciate the importance of being able to find support that meet your needs, if you're going to kick the tires with your website and turn it into something exception, having a large community that can support you is critical.
  • SCO Groups legal actions against Linux! - UPDATED: Did Microsoft help fund SCO, and, by association, Scot’s lawsuits against Linux vendors and users? A new internal memo leads to that conclusion. Is there always fire where threes smoke? In the open-source community, the rumor that just won’t die claims that Microsoft Corp. is funding The SCO Groups legal actions against Linux. On Thursday, those allegations rose again with reports of a memo that links Microsoft with a financial backer of SCO.
  • Installing and Configuring NTP on LINUX - NTP (Network Time Protocol) is an application developed to provide the synchronisation of computers and computer network devices. NTP defines algorithms and a protocol structure to accurately synchronise computer time.
  • The Business of Free Software - The concept of free software has amazed me because so many developers were willing to put in time outside of their day jobs for the fun of it and just to give away their work. Its voluntary nature, made me expect that the free software movement would stay in the realm of more technically inclined people and would not to turn into mainstream business. However, it has defied all my expectations, going from strength to strength. I got a clue that it had arrived when Dell announced a line of PCs based on Linux. But how does a movement whose premise is being "free" get the attention of the world? One of the less obvious traits of free software is that nowhere does it ban from charging users money for software.
  • How to Get Help in Linux - Sometimes, especially for Windows and Macintosh administrators, a move to the Linux operating system can seem a bit intimidating, especially because of the more traditional approach to administration through the Command Line Interface (CLI). The good news is that Linux includes ample, built-in help including "man" pages, "info", "help", and "apropos".
  • Bring New Life To Your iPod - There are many methods that are used to hack and mod iPods and in this article we will examine three popular methods: iPod Linux, Rockbox and iPod wizard. Each one requires some technical understanding to insure proper usage and installation. The reason for this is because during the installation process, serious problems may occur if it is not done with care. The iPod may be ruined, the data can be lost, and it might be difficult to recover the iPod. Mods and hacks for iPods expand the usability of the device and give added customization. The MP3 playlist is not that complete, or if one is not satisfied with the way artists or the titles of the songs are organized.
  • The Era of Open Source - Open Source has often been viewed as a free software. That is true to certain extend. The main difference between both lies in the availability of the source code. Free software does not releases its source code but Open Source does. Anyone can add or edit the code and it is also made available for everyone. When we ponder on the last sentence we can see that these ideas creates some of the most spectacular projects that is available today.
  • Free Software For Struggling Web Designers - Here are a few nifty programs for the thrifty web designer. They answer the question: What do you do if you can't afford $300+ for the popular tools but you don't want to use war3z? (Note: Because some web publishers don't like having links to web sites in their articles, I've omitted them here. The following softwares can be found easily by typing their unique names in a search engine.) 1. NVU Web Editor. Alternative to: Dreamweaver, Frontpage. This is a pretty good web page editor, and is easy to use. Quite full-featured. Turns out good-looking web pages which display properly in FireFox and Internet Explorer.
  • File Comparison Software - Comparing is a Good Thing. File comparison is a process in the computing universe. It is the process of automatic comparing between files on a file system. The results of comparisons are generally displayed to the user and can be used to complete tasks in networks, file systems and revision control. Some examples of file comparison utilities include FileMerge and Microsoft File Compare. Meet the creators. Most file comparison tools find the longest common subsequence between two files. Some tools find the longest increasing subsequence between two files. Prior to file comparison software, there were machines to compare magnetic tapes or punch cards. For example the IBM 519 Card Reproducer was able to determine whether a deck of punched cards were equivalent. There is also a system to compare the check sums of loaded sections of FORTRAN programs to debug compilation problems on specific IBM computers.
  • Web Hostings Service for ADSENSE - Introduction on Web Hosting: A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies or individual those provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Service scope: The scopes of hosting services are very wide. Web page hosting is generally sufficient only for personal web pages. As the in the question of complex sites, this calls for a more comprehensive package that provides database support and application development platforms like PHP, Java, and ASP.NET that facilitates customers installing scripts for applications like forums and content management somewhat like e-commerce for which SSL is also required. For more details login on to www.googleadsense-empire.com.
  • NTP Time Servers for Precision Timing - Network Time Protocol, or NTP as it is most commonly known, provides a mechanism to synchronise the time of computer devices and other network infrastructure. The protocol was originally developed for the Linux operating system by Dr D Mills of the University of Delaware.
  • How Do You Know more about Website and Domain Names? - When you browse for websites on the internet your browser communicates with web servers via their IP address. Methods have been devised to assign human readable names or hostnames to ip addresses.
  • Finding And Using Free PLR (Private Label Rights) Products, Articles And Ebooks - First of all, it's important to understand what exactly PLR rights are, before you learn how to use them. Private label rights, in essence, are a license you can buy for cheap and inexpensive content - that allows you to do whatever you choose with it. With those rights, you get the option of adding your own name, breaking it up into chunks, and reselling that information in whatever format you choose. The most common types of resale rights are given to packages of articles, however, some retailers also offer resale rights to ebooks, software packages, and website templates. Not sure PLR products are for you?

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