Git-Url: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=homepage-ng.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ed6d03cbbfe2c6b6f5ea4a6fe9eb0f123646b62
commit 3ed6d03cbbfe2c6b6f5ea4a6fe9eb0f123646b62 Author: Russell Dickenson (phayz) <russelldicken...@gmail.com> Date: Fri Feb 20 21:48:00 2009 +1000 Newsletter issue 39 - more grammatical changes and moved one item modified: issue39.html diff --git a/frugalware/weeklynews/issue39.html b/frugalware/weeklynews/issue39.html index e6ab1f6..726a6a3 100755 --- a/frugalware/weeklynews/issue39.html +++ b/frugalware/weeklynews/issue39.html @@ -119,7 +119,10 @@ screen readers. bitlbee-skype allows me to make use of skype without having to i <p>I'm recommending the <a href="http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com";>Ubuntu Pocket Guide</a> but please, don't launch the hate mail yet, because there are several reasons for recommending this book. First, it contains valuable information that's useful to everyone who uses Linux. Second, it's available for free in PDF format. It covers topics such as file and folder permissions, security, command line basics. Of course there's some content which is specific to Ubuntu - e.g. package management - but if you ignore these sections, you have a very useful book.</p> <h3>Time it!</h3> -<p>It can be very useful to know just how long it took to run a command. To do this, prefix the command with <pre>time</pre>. When the command is complete, a message will appear, giving details of how long the command took to run.</p> +<p>It can be very useful to know just how long it took to run a command entered at the command line. If you add "<code>time</code>" at the front of the command, the duration is output when the command is complete. For example - "<code>time ls</code>".</p> + +<h3>Mirror cracked?</h3> +<p>pacman-g2 will automatically try to download a package from all the mirrors in its list. If a package isn't available at mirror 1, it moves on to mirror 2 and so on. Mirrors synchronise with the master packages site on their own schedule, with some synchronising more often than others. The following web page gives you an overview of the status of all Frugalware package mirrors - <a href="http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/stats/mirmon";>http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/stats/mirmon</a></p> <p>This section relies on your contributions! If have some tips and tricks that you would like to be shown in the newsletter, <em>please</em> post them on the forums.</p> @@ -129,9 +132,6 @@ screen readers. bitlbee-skype allows me to make use of skype without having to i <h3>Erase that data!</h3> <p>"<a href="http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net";>BleachBit</a> deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. Rid your system of old clutter including cache, cookies, Internet history, localizations, logs, temporary files, and broken shortcuts. Designed for Linux systems, it wipes clean Adobe Reader, APT, Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, GIMP, Google Earth, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild, Second Live viewer, Skype, VIM, XChat, Yum, and more."</p> -<h3>Mirror cracked?</h3> -<p>pacman-g2 will automatically try to download a package from all the mirrors in its list. If a package isn't available at mirror 1, it moves on to mirror 2 and so on. Mirrors synchronise with the master packages site on their own schedule, with some synchronising more often than others. The following web page gives you an overview of the status of all Frugalware package mirrors - http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/stats/mirmon</p> - <h3>Firefox extension - Read It Later</h3> <p><a href="http://www.ideashower.com/ideas/launched/read-it-later/";>Read It Later</a> allows you to easily maintain a list of those web sites/pages that you find interesting but don't have time to read immediately. It's better than bookmarking them because if you only want to read them once, you then have to find and remove the bookmark. With Read It Later, if you decide you want to bookmark the site, you can quickly do that. If a link in a web site looks interesting, you can add the link to your list, so you don't have to navigate to the site itself. It even has an offline mode, where it can download all the pages in your list to Firefox's cache, so that you can read them in 'Offline Mode'.</p> _______________________________________________ Frugalware-git mailing list Frugalware-git@frugalware.org http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-git
