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Audio conversion tools for Linux

Author: Razvan T. Coloja Most portable audio players can play music encoded in the MP3 audio format, but some consumers also have music in Ogg...

Gplot simplifies gnuplot graph creation

Author: Ben Martin Gnuplot can generate sophisticated graphs and output them in vector or bitmap image formats. It can produce many graph types, and you...

Parsix: Persian distro makes GNOME look good

Author: Susan Linton Last month the Parsix Linux distribution made its 1.0 release after almost a year of development. Parsix is a GNOME-based distro based...

Keep track of file name completions with Viewglob

Author: Ben Martin The Viewglob command-line utility lets you see the files available for your shell command completions in a separate window, leaving your regular...

Howto: Setup a Software Firewall in Linux using Firestarter

One of the great features included in Linux is the IPtables firewall. Unfortunately, its command-line use is rather complex, and it can be intimidating...

PHP Shell, for secure remote access when SSH isn’t available

Author: Ben Martin Many companies offer LAMP hosting, but some of the cheaper LAMP providers do not allow SSH access, reserving that feature for higher-paying...

Free software and 2-D barcodes

Author: Nathan Willis You've probably seen them: black and white checkerboard-patterned matrices printed on labels and other real-world objects that you can optically scan with...

Tracing your way – ping, traceroute & mtr

There is a lot of information scattered across the Internet about the different utilities used for network troubleshooting. Yet, few articles detail the background...

Discover the possibilities of the /proc directory

Author: Federico Kereki The /proc directory is a strange beast. It doesn't really exist, yet you can explore it. Its zero-length files are neither binary...

When files disappear, Magic Rescue saves the day

Author: Bruce Byfield If you've ever had that sick realization that you made a mistake immediately after emptying your Trash or deleting a file with...