Juliet Kemp

I regularly use VirtualBox, which allows you to set up and run virtual machines (VMs) on your own desktop. It's a very nifty bit of software, but one

In the mood for a bit more color in your life? Check out Bashish to try out themes for your terminal. Tip of the Trade: With spring in the air outside,

I have accounts on a number of Linux machines that I ssh into from my MacBook, using Terminal. On some -- but not all -- of them, I've found that if I run

KDE document reader Okular doesn't just read multiple document formats; it also allows you to add annotations to files as you read them. Note that to get

There are several ways to ignore files or directories in Subversion so that Subversion will not include them in the output of svn status and will not keep

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) allows you to log into a full desktop on a remote server (as opposed to just opening windows on your local machine, as

This week I once again ran into a problem I've encountered before: issues caused by the default values in /etc/hosts used in several Linux distributions,

A here document (or heredoc) is a way of getting text input into a script without having to feed it in from a separate file. If you've got a small

If you want to keep an eye on the CPU usage of your processes, you can use top. For disk I/O, the Python program iotop does the same thing, which can be