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Shell primer.

Posted in Everything, Linux by Matt on July 18th, 2006

New users of Linux or Unix can often find the shell intimidating, so it’s useful to have some of the basic commands all together in one place. FreeEnginer.org has such a cheat sheet up at http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html

While it won’t make you an instant guru, it will help you get around and preform some basic actions.

Tie your shoes.

Posted in Everything by Matt on July 18th, 2006

How to tie an “Ian Knot “

Ok, I first saw this on Lifehacker and must say I didn’t think I’d find this as interesting as I did. But I must say that I’m very fascinated by this method of shoe tying. On the scarier side, this whole site is about shoe laces. If you still “Make two bunny ears. The bunny runs around the tree. The bunny jumps in a hole. Close it up tight!” to tie your shoes definitely give this a try.