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Howto Create your own aliases in Debian

Posted by Admin on January 5th, 2009

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Aliases are shortcuts for certain commands. For example, if your current directory is /usr/bin and you want to navigate quickly to /var/cache/apt/archives you can do a “cd /var/cache/apt/archives”, but this is quite long and you probably want to save time. So this is where aliases come in help. You can do only a “archive” or a “pak” command and the same action is accomplished.
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HowTo upgrade from Debian Etch (4.0 ) to Lenny (5.0)

Posted by Admin on December 29th, 2008

Debian Lenny’s release is getting closer and closer and many people will want to upgrade their Etch servers to Lenny.This is currently in testing so it is not recommended to use these instruction in production.

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How to auto login and startx without a display manager in Debian

Posted by Admin on December 23rd, 2008

If you want to auto login and startx without a display manager in Debian use the one of the following method

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How to Install Adobe Flash in Debian Etch/Lenny/Sid

Posted by Admin on December 19th, 2008

Flash Player is a cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough Web experiences to over 98% of Internet users.
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pv (Pipe Viewer) - Shell pipeline element to meter data passing through

Posted by Admin on December 15th, 2008

pv (Pipe Viewer) can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

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Making the mouse wheel work in Debian

Posted by Admin on December 8th, 2008

A lot of people are used to the little wheel on the mouse. So it is pretty annoying when it does not function.
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