2002 January

Linux-Games.com
http://www.linux-games.com/news/

Multi-Gnome Terminal [497 K]

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/multignometerm/multi-gnome-terminal-1.3.10-1.i386.rpm
http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/
“Multi Gnome Terminal is a powered and extended version of gnome terminal, which supports many terminals in each window, fast switching between different terminals using shortcuts, and much more. All these extensions are inspired by screen and konsole (the terminal emulator of kde2). Each hidden terminal also shows in its tab its [...]

The House Is On Fire!
Crisis Management in Linux
We’ve covered much ground in the series on Crisis Management in Linux. Today, we’ll summarize the series and add a few last tools.
The first item in your crisis management arsenal can easily be created at the time you install your Linux system - the boot disk. Boot disks [...]

No Mouse Necessary
I really love keyboard shortcuts. While a mouse is nice for some applications, often it just gets in the way of speed and productivity. Reaching for the mouse from the keyboard then resetting my fingers just takes precious time. I’ve always looked for a way to circumvent that process with the knowledge that [...]

It’s the end of January, already. Hard to believe, isn’t it? That means we’re closing out the first three months of Penguin Shell. We’re already well past 52 issues - a full year’s worth of information by most weekly newsletter standards. So far, so good. Your response has been uplifting every time I get bogged [...]

DOS/Windows to Linux HowTo
Unearthed by Bill Jacqmein
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html
This is a fairly short but comprehensive HowTo on converting your machine and your thinking from the Dos/Windows environment to Linux. Throughout, it makes interesting and useful comparisons between the two. That serves to ease the transition from one operating system to the other. The HowTo also provides “Tips [...]

VNC [978 K]

ftp://ftp.uk.research.att.com/pub/vnc/dist/vnc-3.3.3r9_x86_win32.zip
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
“VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing ‘desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. Many of us, for example, use a [...]

The House Is On Fire!
Crisis Management in Linux
We’re halfway through the week and well into the series on Crisis Management in Linux. Changelogs, scheduled backups; both are useful extinguishers for the “fire” that will eventually strike your Linux system. However, sometimes the solution to a show-stopping problem doesn’t require reversion. Linux has a built-in program [...]

Quick Copy and Paste
Sometimes the best tweaks in Linux are the ones that don’t require any additional effort. Uncovering and discovering useful little options that are built in to the system can feel like the coolest tweak going. Today’s GnomeTWEAK might strike you exactly that way if you’ve spent any time trying to copy text [...]

Suddenly, it’s winter in Iowa.
By morning, it’s likely that as much as eight inches of snow will cover the ground. Outside, in the whipcrack winter wind that pushes the snow into every crevice and cranny, neighbors will talk across driveways, shovels in hand. It may be the first time they’ve spoken face to face since [...]

How To Write A Shell Script
http://www.hsrl.rutgers.edu/ug/shell_help.html
Preparation, preparation, preparation. The way to get the most out of the upcoming series on shell scripting is to do a bit of background legwork first. You did it for hardware compatibility before installing your system, right? OK. Bad example. Trust me on this one. Shell scripts can be such [...]

Bash Menubuilder [17 K]

http://home.balcab.ch/joelle.wiesmann/secuserv/menubuilder-03.tgz
http://www.secuserv.ch.vu/
“Bash menubuilder creates pretty bash pseudo-GUIs which act as templates for shell scripts. It features a menu editor with preview which can save and load config files which can be translated with a shell script compiler to the final menu.”

The House Is On Fire!
Crisis Management in Linux
Yesterday we added a script to your collection that creates a backup CD from crucial directories on your Linux system. Looking closely at the script, you should be able to see where modifications can be made to better suit your particular machine and backup needs. Backups can be [...]

A Single Letter Can Tell A Lot
At one time or another since the beginning of Penguin Shell, we’ve talked about three useful or, at least, interesting commands: who, uptime and ps. While these are all primarily administrator commands, they’re useful to know and interesting to play with. who returns a list of all users currently [...]

Sheesh. You guys really do read these issues. For evidence, I need look no further than my inbox:

IBM’s zSeries servers (a.k.a. mainframes) and iSeries servers (a.k.a.
AS/400s) used to run only proprietary operating systems. The mainframes
used to run MVS (later renamed OS/390, and now known as z/OS), VM (now
known as zVM), or VSE. The [...]

ShellDoradoUnearthed by Darryl Plunkie
http://www.shelldorado.com/
Penguin Shell readers definitely look to the future. Darryl Plunkie sent me this link this weekend in anticipation of the shell scripting series coming up the week of February 4. In his own words, “I work in the *nix world at work and shells scripts are the workhorse, packhorse and plow horse [...]

cdbkup [13 K]

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cdbkup/cdbkup-0.9.tar.gz
http://cdbkup.sourceforge.net/
“cdbkup performs full or incremental backups of local or remote filesystems onto CD-R(W)s. Results are stored as tarballs on single or multi-session ISO CDs. It works either interactively for multi-CD backups, or non-interactively for single-CD backups.” You know, I always try to give you a small break. If you’re just not up to [...]

The House Is On Fire!
Crisis Management in Linux

Last week we began a series on managing crises in Linux. What to do when your system won’t boot, or you’ve had some non-catastrophic failure? We talked about the importance of the changelog to this crisis management plan, and began a discussion on the importance of backups, specifically [...]

Quick Calendars
Sometimes when you’re working away, you find yourself with a need for a calendar. While most Linux distros have pretty and useful GUI calendar programs, they take a bit to fire up and render. Wouldn’t it be nice to have just a plain text calendar at your disposal anytime?
There is such a tool in [...]

A couple of things happened over the past several days that bode well both for the computer world in general, and for Linux users specifically.
First is the anticipated announcement by Intel that it would reduce the price of its flagship P4 chips. Any chip price reduction is welcome, in my opinion, as it continues to [...]