Recently I've noticed more naive users in the Unix world. I see it both in the newsgroups and in email I get, and it's also apparent in the things folks search for here.
This section of the site is for those folks. It's an expansion of the New To Unix I had already written; this will go into more depth, do more hand-holding and I hope will make Unix/Linux more understandable. See Unix Articles for the complete index of articles. Also, use Search to more easily find whatever it is you need.
Most popular in this category: Analyzing web logs with grep , What is a Managed Switch? , The network is always at risk , loadkeys, dumpkeys
| Title | Author | Date | Last comment | ||
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| Troubleshooting failed email | Anthony Lawrence | 2009 08 | 2009/08/21 20:43 TonyLawrence | ||
| Linux|Unix pinfo | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 07 | |||
| Random errors in Perl | Anthony Lawrence | 2007 12 | |||
| Routing Basics | Tony Lawrence | 1997 | |||
| General Trouble Shooting | Tony Lawrence | 2000 08 | 2009/01/08 21:58 xcpe | ||
| Understanding Web Forms | Tony Lawrence | 2003 12 | |||
| SSH | Tony Lawrence | 2001 05 | 2007/09/06 15:32 TonyLawrence | ||
| Operating System Concepts | Tony Lawrence | 2003 05 | 2007/09/21 11:48 anonymous | ||
| Loglevel (configuring syslog) | Tony Lawrence | 2005 04 | |||
| Adding Memory | Anthony Lawrence | 2007 10 | 2008/02/28 15:57 rbailin | ||
| PAM: Tech Words the Day | Tony Lawrence | 2004 11 | |||
| Basic Scripting | Tony Lawrence | 2001 02 | 2009/09/28 14:46 TonyLawrence | ||
| Writing and Compiling C programs on Linux | Tony Lawrence | 2004 12 | 2009/10/12 06:51 yalongxie | ||
| Network Management Techniques | Sanjay Tailor | 2003 11 | |||
| Cables and switches basics | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 04 | |||
| XML | Tony Lawrence | 2003 10 | |||
| Using sudo | Tony Lawrence | 2002 02 | 2009/11/03 11:25 Omar | ||
| Zoom in | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 09 | |||
| How and where to start writing first Shell Script in UNIX Part 2 | Rakesh Awasthi | 2004 08 | |||
| Xinetd | Tony Lawrence | 2003 07 | |||
| Hardening your perimeter | Michael Desrosiers | 2006 11 | |||
| Understanding Threads | Tony Lawrence | 2003 10 | |||
| Understanding Serial Wiring | Tony Lawrence | 1992 | 2008/10/31 22:01 BigDumbDinosaur | ||
| But it doesn't use telnet! | Tony Lawrence | 2005 09 | 2005/09/16 14:43 BigDumbDinosaur | ||
| Mac Screen sharing is not just for Macs | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 01 | 2009/07/24 19:09 TonyLawrence | ||
| Some fun tools in the UNIX ecosystem | Girish Venkatachalam | 2009 08 | |||
| Windows Performance Boosts | Anthony Lawrence | 2009 04 | 2009/04/28 19:40 TonyLawrence | ||
| Random Numbers | Tony Lawrence | 2003 09 | 2008/01/23 12:25 TonyLawrence | ||
| Why use that primitive Vi? | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 05 | 2008/09/26 21:09 TonyLawrence | ||
| But I'm not a programmer! | Anthony Lawrence | 2007 12 | |||
| How and where to start writing first UNIX Shell Script | Rakesh Awasthi | 2004 08 | 2005/02/25 23:06 TonyLawrence | ||
| Undoing bad archives | Tony Lawrence | 2005 10 | |||
| Breaking out of a script | Anthony Lawrence | 2009 03 | |||
| GPG/PGP Basics | Tony Lawrence | 2001 11 | 2009/09/22 15:55 Jai | ||
| Mac OS X Invisible and Locked Files | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 03 | 2009/02/01 15:44 TonyLawrence | ||
| RSS Syndication Feeds and Why Do I Care? | Tony Lawrence | 2003 08 | 2007/05/17 15:35 rbailin | ||
| Continuation Lines | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 06 | 2006/06/21 14:33 BigDumbDInosaur | ||
| What is a router? | BigDumbDinosaur | 2005 09 | 2009/10/15 00:36 BigDumbDinosaur | ||
| Sendmail | Tony Lawrence | 2002 04 | |||
| Understanding Packed BCD | Tony Lawrence | 2003 09 | |||
| Bash typecasting | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 08 | 2009/02/19 18:07 TonyLawrence | ||
| Understanding Dumb Terminals | Tony Lawrence | 1998 12 | 2005/04/18 14:18 richlove | ||
| Javascript - The Definitive Guide | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 09 | |||
| Adding a Hard Drive to Linux | Dirk Hart | 2001 02 | |||
| I don't know Unix | Tony Lawrence | 2004 08 | |||
| Networks 101 | Tony Lawrence | 1998 03 | |||
| Understanding PAM | Tony Lawrence | 2005 03 | 2009/07/29 10:59 TonyLawrence | ||
| Software Mirroring on RedHat 8.0 | Tony Lawrence | 2002 11 | |||
| Tightvnc, Chicken of the VNC | Tony Lawrence | 2003 10 | 2007/06/04 17:48 anonymous | ||
| Understanding Virtual Domains | Tony Lawrence | 2003 07 | |||
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| Background tasks - Why? | Anthony Lawrence | 2007 01 | |||
| Fear of fsck | Anthony Lawrence | 2009 06 | 2009/06/27 15:19 NickBarron | ||
| Analyzing web logs with grep | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 01 | 2008/01/18 23:44 BigDumbDinosaur | ||
| Understanding Kill | Tony Lawrence | 2003 11 | |||
| Floppy Disks | Tony Lawrence | 2001 01 | 2006/01/24 15:06 anonymous | ||
| The amazing tool called netcat | Girish Venkatachalam | 2009 08 | |||
| Connecting to the Internet | Tony Lawrence | 2001 06 | |||
| Controlling Firefox Headers and Footers | Anthony Lawrence | 2007 12 | 2007/12/13 15:30 TonyLawrence | ||
| taskset for CPU affinity | Tony Lawrence | 2005 10 | |||
| OSR5 Boot Up Messages | Tony Lawrence | 1998 | |||
| Using Tapes and tape drives | Tony Lawrence | 1998 09 | |||
| Understanding Microformats | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 10 | 2006/10/30 18:53 TonyLawrence | ||
| Understanding Microsummaries | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 10 | |||
| Basic DNS: PTR records and why you care | Tony Lawrence | 2004 07 | 2009/10/04 16:40 BigDumbDInosaur | ||
| Basic (very basic) TCP/IP | Anthony Lawrence | 2009 06 | |||
| Cron At and Batch | Tony Lawrence | 2000 01 | 2005/06/09 17:09 TonyLawrence | ||
| Understanding SCSI | Tony Lawrence | 1999 03 | |||
| Why do programmers count from zero? | Tony Lawrence | 2003 07 | 2009/03/01 11:28 anonymous | ||
| Specialty Football Website (place kicking techniques) | Tony Lawrence | 2003 11 | 2009/08/11 18:31 TonyLawrence | ||
| Concepts in Cryptography | Girish Venkatachalam | 2009 08 | |||
| VoIP Basics | Ruchi Gupta | 2006 04 | 2009/06/01 18:57 Andrewjones | ||
| loadkeys, dumpkeys | Tony Lawrence | 2005 05 | |||
| IBM: Linux Desktop Migration RedBook | Bruce Garlock | 2004 12 | |||
| Using the shell (Terminal) in Mac OS X | Tony Lawrence | 2002 12 | 2009/10/15 11:19 TonyLawrence | ||
| Why are in-addr.arpa addresses backwards? | Tony Lawrence | 2004 12 | 2005/02/25 15:11 anonymous | ||
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| What is p2p? | Girish Venkatachalam | 2009 08 | |||
| Network Time Protocol - get atomic clock's precision from the Internet | Girish Venkatachalam | 2009 09 | 2009/09/23 17:59 TonyLawrence | ||
| Using sh -c with find | Anthony Lawrence | 2007 01 | |||
| VPN's and other remote access | Tony Lawrence | 2001 04 | 2009/08/13 11:23 anonymous | ||
| Numeric Unix Error Messages | Tony Lawrence | 2001 12 | 2008/04/15 18:12 anonymous | ||
| What is a Managed Switch? | Tony Lawrence | 2005 08 | 2009/01/23 12:37 TonyLawrence | ||
| Fallure to resolve | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 04 | |||
| pointer: Tech Words the Day | Tony Lawrence | 2005 02 | |||
| grep in depth | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 02 | |||
| Email Basics | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 08 | |||
| Hard Disks | Tony Lawrence | 2001 02 | 2005/07/26 23:18 anonymous | ||
| Network Neighborhood, Visionfs, Samba Authentication and all that | Tony Lawrence | 2003 05 | |||
| Why is my system slow? | Tony Lawrence | 2001 12 | |||
| How do you do X in Unix (Linux,Solaris..)? | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 03 | 2008/03/17 09:54 TonyLawrence | ||
| X hotkeys with xbindkeys | Girish Venkatachalam | 2009 09 | |||
| Creating screencast video tutorials for the web | Girish Venkatachalam | 2009 08 | |||
| Intrusion Detection Systems | Tony Lawrence | 2003 09 | |||
| Installing a Small Office Network | Tony Lawrence | 1998 03 | |||
| What is mount? | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 07 | |||
| Perl Reporting | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 03 | |||
| PATH, command | Tony Lawrence | 2005 04 | |||
| Using exclude with du | Tony Lawrence | 2004 06 | |||
| Process scheduling | Tony Lawrence | 2004 08 | 2009/03/02 17:33 anonymous | ||
| Recursive chown | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 03 | 2009/02/27 17:50 OnkarJoshi | ||
| Data Security: Backups are the Key to Protecting your Data and your Business | Bob Mahood | 2003 10 | |||
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| Vi Primer | Tony Lawrence | 1997 | 2006/06/07 15:22 arvin | ||
| Bash Brace Expansion | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 04 | 2008/04/22 13:05 BigDumbDinosaur | ||
| Controlling core files (Linux) | Tony Lawrence | 2005 03 | 2009/06/19 09:26 TonyLawrence | ||
| Posting to Usenet Groups | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 11 | |||
| Basics: rsync | Tony Lawrence | 2003 07 | 2009/01/18 02:10 TonyLawrence | ||
| How can i mount a ISO Image CD ? | Tony Lawrence | 2004 07 | 2007/09/06 18:02 TonyLawrence | ||
| Unix Permissions | Tony Lawrence | 2001 04 | 2006/10/17 13:38 TonyLawrence | ||
| The network is always at risk | Tony Lawrence | 2005 07 | 2005/07/29 09:43 drag | ||
| Some common email problems | Anthony Lawrence | 2006 12 | 2006/12/09 05:58 BigDumbDinosaur | ||
| Symlinks | Tony Lawrence | 2005 10 | |||
| Understanding Termcap and Terminfo | Tony Lawrence | 1999 07 | |||
| Using the Korn Shell | Tony Lawrence | 1997 | 2005/03/19 19:19 TonyLawrence | ||
| Basics | Tony Lawrence | 2001 01 | |||
| Ding, dong, the Cron is dead | Anthony Lawrence | 2008 01 | |||
| A refreshing web programming tutorial | Girish Venkatachalam | 2009 08 | |||
| UNIX Basics-JOB SCHEDULING | Steggy | 2004 05 | 2009/10/16 19:34 anonymous | ||
| Understanding Floating Point Formats | Tony Lawrence | 2003 09 | 2009/02/27 14:49 ScottHanson | ||
| Understanding RAID | Tony Lawrence | 1999 03 | 2009/09/18 17:03 TonyLawrence | ||
| Configuring SCO's GUI | Tony Lawrence | 1998 04 | |||
| Network Time Protocol | Tony Lawrence | 2004 08 | 2009/09/02 01:39 DB | ||
| Understanding Device files | Tony Lawrence | 1998 | 2009/03/18 16:35 anonymous | ||
| Caches | Tony Lawrence | 2003 09 | |||
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