Category: Tricks

  • How To Install Fonts In Fedora Easily

    I have a massive collection of TrueType fonts that I want to add to my Fedora fc 14 installation. Installing TrueType fonts in new versions of Fedora is actually quite easy. To install the font system wide, all you need to do is put it in the fonts in a directory. To be consistent, create…

  • 7 Cool Ways To Use The Man Pages In Linux

    Man pages (short for manual pages) are the extensive documentation that comes preinstalled with almost all substantial Unix and Unix-like operating systems. The Unix command used to display them is man. Each page is a self-contained document. Usage To read a manual page for a Unix command, one can use man <command_name> 1) Create a…

  • NOT – The Best 25 Linux Commands

    Here is another installment of Command Line Gems, I present you with the “Not” The best Linux Commands. 1) Save an HTML page, and covert it to a .pdf file wget $URL | htmldoc –webpage -f “$URL”.pdf – ; xpdf “$URL”.pdf & Uses htmldoc to perform the conversion 2) backup and synchronize entire remote folder…

  • Awesome Linux Terminal ASCII Aquarium

    I found an awesome ascii aquarium for Linux terminals called Asciiquarium.You can now discover the mysteries of the sea from the comfort of your own terminal using ASCIIQuarium. It is an aquarium animation in ASCII art created using perl. Installing Term-Animation First, you need to install Perl module called Term-Animation. Open a command-line terminal (select…