100 Linux Tips And Tricks

Table of Contents......Page 2 Audience......Page 5 Web resources......Page 6 What this chapter covers......Page 8 Tip 1: Which distribution is good for you......Page 9 Tip 2: How to find a Linux CD-ROM at low cost......Page 10 Tip 3: Multiple operating systems......Page 11 Tip 4: Installing with no CD-ROM drive or modem......Page 12 Tip 5: Swap and memory......Page 13 Tip 6: More swap with a swap file......Page 14 Tip 7: Kernel size and modules......Page 15 Tip 8: The boot prompt......Page 16 Tip 9: Wrong memory size found......Page 17 Tip 10: Master boot record and LILO......Page 18 Tip 11: LILO can't find a kernel on a big drive......Page 19 Tip 12: X Window configuration options......Page 20 Tip 13: Allowing users to mount drives......Page 21 Tip 14: Allowing users to run root programs......Page 22 Tip 15: Linux and NT booting......Page 23 Tip 16: Annoying boot messages......Page 24 Tip 17: Programs on CD-ROM......Page 25 Tip 18: International console......Page 26 Tip 19: Multiple kernels choices......Page 27 Tip 20: Default file permissions......Page 28 Tip 21: Default boot mode......Page 29 Tip 22: More information from usenet......Page 30 Tip 23: Bytes per inodes......Page 31 Tip 24: LILO and boot problems......Page 32 Tip 25: Making CD-ROM images......Page 33 Tip 26: FTP access restrictions......Page 34 What this chapter covers......Page 36 Tip 1: Detecting 2 ethernet cards......Page 37 Tip 2: Everything on sound cards......Page 38 Tip 3: Non-PostScript printers......Page 39 Tip 4: Use Windows special keys in Linux......Page 40 Tip 5: Added processors......Page 41 Tip 6: Detecting an ISA device......Page 42 Tip 7: Find hardware information......Page 43 Tip 8: Blinking leds on the keyboard......Page 44 Tip 9: Reading a foreign file system......Page 45 Tip 10: Can't mount root fs......Page 46 Tip 11: Linux on a 286?......Page 47 Tip 12: Linux without a hard drive......Page 48 Tip 13: Shutdown and power off......Page 49 Tip 14: LPD started but no device found......Page 50 Tip 15: Read files from FAT32 drives......Page 51 Tip 16: TV on Linux......Page 52 Tip 17: Device drivers......Page 53 Tip 18: Mouse problems......Page 54 Tip 19: International keyboards......Page 55 What this chapter covers......Page 57 Tip 1: Background image in X Window......Page 58 Tip 2: Customize Netscape Communicator......Page 59 Tip 3: POP3 in Pine......Page 60 Tip 4: Multiple accounts in Pine......Page 61 Tip 5: Running Java programs......Page 62 Tip 6: Virtual hosts in Apache......Page 63 Tip 7: Libc versus Glibc......Page 64 Tip 8: Aliases with Qmail......Page 65 Tip 9: Samba with Windows 98 or NT 4......Page 66 Tip 10: KDE drag and drop icons......Page 67 Tip 11: Find files......Page 68 Tip 12: asm or linux include files not found......Page 69 Tip 13: ICQ on Linux......Page 70 Tip 14: Reading foreign documents......Page 71 Tip 15: Scanning with Linux......Page 72 Tip 16: Real audio and video......Page 73 Tip 17: Emulation......Page 74 Tip 18: Shared library not found......Page 75 Tip 19: Hard to erase files......Page 76 Tip 20: Files permissions......Page 77 Tip 21: Changing file permissions......Page 78 Tip 22: An international background......Page 79 Tip 23: Powerful file transfer system......Page 80 Tip 24: Editing in text editors......Page 81 Tip 25: Documentation and manual......Page 82 What this chapter covers......Page 84 Tip 1: Easy PPP dialup......Page 85 Tip 2: Internet for your LAN......Page 86 Tip 3: Domains to search in......Page 87 Tip 4: Display IP rather than hostname......Page 88 Tip 5: Is my modem a winmodem?......Page 89 Tip 6: Sharing files from a Windows system......Page 90 Tip 7: Sorry but this host is not in my list......Page 91 Tip 8: Access to various networks......Page 92 Tip 9: Accessing remote file systems......Page 93 Tip 10: Secure Web server......Page 94 Tip 11: Secure alternative to telnet......Page 95 Tip 12: Speed problems on a PPP connection......Page 96 Tip 13: Names and name servers......Page 97 Tip 14: Who owns this port......Page 98 Tip 15: Network printers......Page 99 What this chapter covers......Page 101 Tip 1: Graphical messages to the world......Page 102 Tip 2: Code reuse......Page 103 Tip 3: Makefile don't equal C......Page 104 Tip 4: Parsing the command line in BASH......Page 105 Tip 5: Don't grep grep......Page 106 Tip 6: Move a text into upper case letters......Page 107 Tip 7: Using PASCAL on Linux......Page 108 Tip 8: Segmentation fault......Page 109 Tip 9: Who is online?......Page 110 Tip 10: Graphical toolkits......Page 111 Tip 11: IDE and visual interfaces......Page 112 Tip 12: Free software and copyleft......Page 113 Tip 13: Talking to the terminal......Page 114 Tip 14: Internet technologies......Page 115 Tip 15: Library types......Page 116