None of the existing display configuration tools does what I think is "the right thing".

• Don't start from a stored config, use xrandr to read the systems' current state
• Allow creating "profiles" that will get applied smartly (not there yet)
• Generate a xrandr invocation to reflect the desired configuration
• Allow per-monitor scaling
• Allow arbitrary monitor positioning
• Implement "scale everything so all the pixels are the same size"

Why Learn AWK?

• You are working TOO HARD
• Available EVERYWHERE
• It limits what you’re going to attempt with the language
• Language Features
• Convenience: minimized bureaucracy

BusKill is a Kill Cord for your laptop implementing a Dead Man Switch using $20 in USB hardware + udev rule to trigger your laptop self-destruct if stolen.

exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults. Free and open source software.

12 simple configuration tips for your .nanorc file, useful for programmers!

1. Smooth Scrolling
2. Syntax Highlighting
3. Auto-indentation
4. Backups
5. Case Sensitive Searches
6. Nano History
7. More Editing Space
8. Hide help from bottom
9. Disable Line Wrapping (nowrap)
10. Tab size
11. Convert Tabs to Spaces
12. Enable Mouse

In this brief guide, we will discuss how to install 'motivate' and 'fortune' programs to display random quotes from commandline in Linux.

Today, in this guide, we are going to see how to record everything you do in Terminal using 'script' command in Unix-like operating systems.

Perché niente è impossibile da capire… Se lo spieghi bene !

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line.

An independent Linux® distribution with a focus on simplicity and the concept of “less is more”. The distribution targets only the x86-64 architecture and the English language. “Simple can be...

pngquant is a command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.

The conversion reduces file sizes significantly (often as much as 70%) and preserves full alpha transparency. Generated images are compatible with all web browsers and operating systems.

Pngquant is a free, open source and cross-platform command-line lossy PNG compressor. It is based on a portable libimagequant library and is written in C99. It reduces the file size significantly by converting the PNG image to more efficient 8-bit PNG format and preserves full alpha transparency. As you may already know, 8-bit PNG files are often 60-80% smaller than 24/32-bit PNG files. The images compressed using Pngquant are fully-compatible with all web browsers and operating systems. Pngquant can compress one or multiple images at once.

CryFS encrypts your Dropbox and protects you against hackers and data leaks. It also works well together with other cloud providers.

In this guide we are going to look at how to use a script and scriptreplay commands in Linux that can help you to record commands and their output printed on your terminal during a given session.

I am not going to discuss why you need strong passwords. It is an open secret that strong passwords keep you relatively safer.

Generating strong passwords is something you can do on your own but putting all the combination of lower and upper cases, numbers, symbols can be a tiresome work.

But you need not worry. Linux has got you covered. We’ll see 5 best password generators for Linux that will ease the task for you.

Creates GPG encrypted, compressed backups; client-side encryption allows to upload the backup onto untrusted servers.

Encrypted backups with a clean and simple interface; easy to use and set up; possibility to mount the backup archive with FUSE and inspect it as a regular file system.

"Recursive directory listing command that produces a depth indented listing of files".

"A minimal implementation of the UNIX tree command with colors!"

gcp is an advanced file copier tool, heavily inspired from the traditional cp command utility, but with some additional features. Displays the copy progress indicator, with estimated time, current file speed; logs of all actions; resume of interrupted copy processes.