Filed under: Features, Linux, Productivity, Open Source, How-Tos, Troubleshooting

The command line. It strikes fear in the hearts of many a new Linux user. They open their terminals reluctantly, and there the prompt sits, with the cursor blinking in rhythm with their racing hearts. What does that blinking cursor want? It’s anticipating something… It wants something…

All right, so maybe it’s not horror motion picture material.

But it is intimidating for many new users. Navigating the command line might be a mystery to you, or maybe you’ve read a little about it and wonder: out of all those commands, which ones am I really going to use? Which ones are the most help in a given situation?

Either way, we’ve got you covered. These are the commands we’ve found are most useful to new users. They range from basic navigation to commands that are great for troubleshooting.

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If you’re an IRC user, then you know the only thing more annoying than seeing the same comment repeated in rapid succession by four different people is seeing it repeated in rapid succession by 24 different people. The more members there are in an IRC channel, the more likely it is that someone just joining will ask a question that was asked moments before their arrival. Add to that the number of people “LOL”ing “+1″ing each other and the signal-to noise ratio quickly becomes deafening.

In an attempt to cease the madness, Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) and his friend zigdon have coded a rather awesome little bot and named it ROBOT9000. It’s designed — get this — to mute the messaging capability of anyone who states anything that’s already been stated in the channel within the past two years (boy, those xkcd guys mean business.).

Randall and zig are still tweaking the code but you can snag the initial version if you want to try it out in your own channel. They’ve also set up an IRC testing channel if you want to just play around with the bot. Just don’t state “hi all” when you log in. You’ve been warned.

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New charges against Islamic charity allege money-laundering link … Kansas City Star, Share This Share This No Comments » 17 01 2008 EMI might sell sponsorships for artists Posted by: in Marketing and Advertising Filed under: Rumors, Products and services, Competitive strategy, Marketing and advertising While privately-held EMI Group announced plans yesterday to cut around 2,000 jobs worldwide, the company also announced intentions to grant corporate sponsors to brand artists. According to British music journal NME, the plan will encompass connections to new releases from such massive name acts as Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, and Babyshambles. This announcement coincides with several comments from EMI acts that they intend to withhold pending releases from the company until assurances can be made about marketing and digital promotion. Radiohead reportedly left EMI after assurances in those areas were not made by the record label, and when the company balked at giving the band rights to its back catalog. A move like this should not be surprising, especially considering that other media and entertainment outlets have long used promotions of this sort to sell new products and releases. Most prominently are the deals film studios make for product placement and tie-ins with new films. Last year’s Transformers comes to mind more than any other recent film in that regard. But where it is simple to insert a vehicle for product promotion into a scene, the same cannot be stated about music. Although it is unlikely Coldplay will start to sing about some new model vehicle about to be revealed, the amount of control that artists may lose is daunting. The basic amount of attachment artists have toward albums seems to make this kind of deal unmanageable. If it is Britney Spears though, who would want to attach their brand to her at this point? Unless the promotion is for some brand of musical device or instrument, this arrangement just seems hard to manage and especially hard to sell to artists that are very willing to withhold albums in light of issues already out of their control. Share This Share This No Comments »

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