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10Jul/100

FreeBSD: How to Install Adobe Flash in FreeBSD 8

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to Web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Applications" ("RIAs").

Adobe Flash plugin is not available for FreeBSD. However, a software wrapper for running the Linux version of the plugin exists. This wrapper also supports more plugins such as Adobe Acrobat plugin and RealPlayer.

In FreeBSD 8.X, install the www/nspluginwrapper port. This port requires emulators/linux_base-f10 which is a large port.

cd /usr/ports/www/nspluginwrapper
make install clean

The next step is to install the www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 port.

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16Jun/100

Text Editors: vi commands and tips

vi is a family of screen-oriented text editors which share certain characteristics, such as methods of invocation from the operating system command interpreter, and characteristic user interface features. The portable subset of the behavior of vi programs, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX.

vi operates in either insert mode (where typed text becomes part of the document) or normal mode (where keystrokes are interpreted as commands). Typing "i" while in normal mode switches the editor to insert mode. Typing "i" again at this point places an "i" in the document. From insert mode, pressing the escape key switches the editor back to normal mode.

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31May/100

How to speed up the boot time in Ubuntu by profiling the boot process

There is way to improve the speed of boot process in Ubuntu Linux by profiling your boot. Profiling lets Ubuntu make a list of all the files that are accessed during bootup, it then sorts the files according to how they are stored on your hard-disk. So the next time the system is booted, the files would be read faster.

To profile boot you need to follow these steps:

  • At the grub menu highlight the kernel
  • Press e for edit
  • Choose the line starting with kernel and press e again. Now add the word profile to the end of this line. Hit Enter and then press b to boot

NOTE: The system will boot slower this one time, the next time however you should see an improvement. Also keep in mind that all this is machine-dependent and also depends on the arrangement of files on your hard-disk, so the difference you see might not be huge, or even nil in some cases.

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31May/100

Linux Tips: Keyboard shortcuts and command line tricks

In this article I will show you some keyboard shortcuts and other command line tricks to make entering commands easier and faster. Learning them can make your life a lot easier!

Here are some keyboard shortcuts you can use within terminal:

Alt-r              Undo all changes to the line.
Alt-Ctrl-e        Expand command line.
Alt-p              Non-incremental reverse search of history.
Alt-] x            Moves the cursor forward to the next occurrence of x.
Alt-Ctrl-] x      Moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurrence of x.
Ctrl-a             Move to the start of the line.
Ctrl-e             Move to the end of the line.
Ctrl-u             Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.
Ctrl-k             Delete from the cursor to the end of the line.
Ctrl-w            Delete from the cursor to the start of the word.
Ctrl-y             Pastes text from the clipboard.
Ctrl-l              Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen.
Ctrl-x Ctrl-u    Undo the last changes. Ctrl-_
Ctrl-r              Incremental reverse search of history.
!!                   Execute last command in history
!abc               Execute last command in history beginning with abc
!n                  Execute nth command in history
^abc^xyz       Replace first occurrence of abc with xyz in last command and execute it

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