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If your computer has sufficient memory and you would like to increase the speed of OpenOffice:

• Navigate to: Tools->Options-> Memory
• Set the "Graphics Cache" to: 128 MB
• Set the "Memory Per Object" to: 24.0 MB

  Exit OpenOffice and re-open for the change to take effect.

I recently wrote a C++ program for a university assignment on my Asus EEE 702 while on a very long bus ride. While the small keyboard on my 702 is a little annoying during extended use, nothing annoys me more than the CAPS-Lock key, which I kept hitting by accident when pressing tab.

On a Linux/*BSD system running X, you can disable the CAPS-Lock key by running the following:

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$ xmodmap -e "remove Lock = Caps_Lock"
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This will only disable it for your current session. You can make this permanent by adding it to "/etc/X11/Xmodmap" or "~/.xmodmaprc."

On a Debian, Ubuntu, or debian-based system, you can easily view all installed packages using the '--get-selections' dpkg switch.

Read more for an example run.

From the diskinfo manpage:

"The diskinfo utility prints out information about a disk device, and optionally runs a naive performance test on the device. If given no arguments, the output will be a single line per specified device with the following fields: device name, sectorsize, media size in bytes, media size in sectors, firmware cylinders, firmware heads, and firmware sectors. The last three fields are only present if the information is available.

Over the weekend I picked up a used HP Photosmart C4680 printer. This printer has built-in wired and wireless networking and I have configured it as a shared printer on the wired network.

The first step in getting this printer working on my FreeBSD workstations was to install the CUPS printer daemon...

The latest release of the proactively-secure OpenBSD operating system is now available for purchase.

Place your orders for OpenBSD-4.7 today!

The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system.

A post was made earlier on Novell's PR blog stating that the District Court had ruled in their favor against SCO, giving Novell the Unix copyrights.

Read more here

The following string will look through your command history and display the top 10 based on usage:

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history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
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During a typical work day I use a range of different machines running several different operating systems. Occasionally, I need to use txt configuration files from one OS on another, but Windows and *nix use different EOL characters.

Programs like Notepad++ and vi/m read both EOL characters, but I do not always have access too these due to security restrictions.

A 'quick and dirty' way to convert the EOL characters is to use sed, a stream editor for *nix systems.