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XWindows Primer Tutorial

The XWindow System is a windowing system most commonly found on unix or Linux operating systems. On the Mac OS X Linux system this XWindow System may be called X11, or more recently XQuartz. At one stage it was more … Continue reading

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PostScript at Linux Primer Tutorial

PostScript page-layout language enables a user to tailor the use of their hardcopy (or softcopy) documents that end up in this format. PostScript has been around a long time and you may come across printers, particularly on Windows, that don’t … Continue reading

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Perl CGI Email Primer Tutorial

Today we again venture into the world of CGI (Common Gateway Interface) on our Apache/PHP/MySql web server, this time to investigate using the Perl CGI to send emails via the Linux sendmail command. Found with the use of sendmail there … Continue reading

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Perl CGI Redirect Primer Tutorial

Today we venture into the world of CGI (Common Gateway Interface) on our Apache/PHP/MySql web server. So what language is default for CGI work on such a web server? It could be Perl or Python, or maybe something else like … Continue reading

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Linux Find and/or Locate Files/Directories Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) servers have two really useful commands which help the user find files and/or directories … locate and find. Doubt there are many people out there who have not mislaid a computer file at some time or other. … Continue reading

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Linux Crontab Curl Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) is a command line environment that supports interactive and non-interactive task management. Often non-interactive tasks are known as batch processes, often intended not to rely on any user intervention, unless there is a problem. Today, in this … Continue reading

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Java Command Line Arguments Primer Tutorial

If you are writing a batch process and have reached a process part requiring a compiled program (perhaps because this part has some CPU grunt associated with it) you can do a lot worse than use Java and allow user … Continue reading

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Web Server Access Primer Tutorial

When you maintain a Web Server there are lots of tools of use, but just what do you need to run an Apache/PHP/MySql web server? … Who’s smart idea was this? … … sun comes up … … sun goes … Continue reading

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