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Thu, 14 Feb 2019 | Ubuntu 7.10 Reference

Paging through file output, less shell command, 660-662 PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), 208 Pan news client newsreaders, 119-120 parameters, printing out Mono, 615 partitioning Ubuntu installation options, 15 partitions before and during installation, 742-745 strategies, planning (Ubuntu installations), 10-11 PostgreSQL database users, creating, 503 pattern-matching, 234-236. See also wildcard searches pci biosirg command, hard disk optimization, 591-592, 638 comparison of expression...

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Tue, 24 Oct 2017 | Ubuntu 7.10 Reference

Hackers versus crackers, 626 handheld digital cameras, 151 hard disks partitioning before and during installation, 742-745 Hardware tab (system-config-display client), 62 hashes (Perl), 528-529 hdparm command, hard disk optimization, 639 hdx ide-scsi command, hard disk optimization, 638 homes section ( etc samba smb.conf files), 370-372 .htaccess Apache Server configuration file, 404 AllowOverrides configuration directive, 405-406 Options configuration directive, 405 HTML (Hypertext Markup...

The GTK Widget

Sun, 20 Aug 2017 | Ubuntu 7.10 Reference

Open Source developers are always trying to make it easier for people to build applications and help in development. To this end, there are a number of widgets or toolkits that other developers can use to rapidly create and deploy GUI applications. These widgets control things such as drop-down lists, Save As dialogs, window buttons, and general look and feel. Unfortunately, whereas Windows and Apple developers have to worry about only one set of widgets each, Linux has a plethora of different...

Copying Files Using mc

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 | Ubuntu 7.10 Reference

The Midnight Commander (available in the Universe repository, under the package mc see Chapter 7, Managing Software for how to enable the Universe and Multiverse repositories) is a command-line file manager that is useful for copying, moving, and archiving files and directories. The Midnight Commander has a look and feel similar to the Norton Commander of DOS fame. By executing mc at a shell prompt, a dual-pane view of the files is displayed. It contains drop-down menu choices and function keys...

Using the C Programming Project Management Tools Provided with Ubuntu

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 | Ubuntu 7.10 Reference

Ubuntu is replete with tools that make your life as a C C++ programmer easier. There are tools to create programs (editors), compile programs (gcc), create libraries (ar), control the source (Subversion, but a massive number of projects use the older CVS system), automate builds (make), debug programs (gdb and ddd), and determine where inefficiencies lie (gprof). The following sections introduce some of the programming and project management tools included with Ubuntu. The disc included with...