Extra fun fact: the program’s odd name is an initialism of its programmers’ names: Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan Awk’s basic syntax When invoked on the command line, awk follows the basic pattern below: Awk will execute the action whenever the pattern is matched within the file specified. If you don’t specify a file, awk will run on the standard output. When matching patterns, awk can take regular expressions as well as programmatic input....
Bitdefender Total Security 2012 is a complete security suite that comes with anti-virus, anti-spam, parental control, privacy control, firewall and many more security and Windows performance boosting features. The software, once installed, runs in auto-pilot mode so you don’t have to deal with tons of configuration options just to get it running. To get it started, simply download and install Bitdefender (Bitdefender is NOT free. You can, however, download the free trial and see if you like it)....
Gnome Pie has a slightly different setting as other application launcher. It is keyboard shortcut based and it appears as a group of applications instead of a single application. To install, open a terminal and type the following: Once you launched Gnome Pie, you won’t see anything on your screen. You have to go to the system tray and select the “Preferences” option from the Gnome Pie icon. In the Preferences window, you can configure it to startup on login, show indicator (aka the tray icon) and whether to open Pies at Mouse....
If you’re a long-time Gmail user as many of us here at MTE are, you’ll know that Gmail’s developers have ensured that their mobile as well as web services are up to scratch. While the mobile apps have been the main focus for the past couple of years, the web service, too, has been modernized to a degree, but apparently, there’s still a lot more to come. Leaked screenshots and information show how Google may be planning to introduce a new smooth modern approach, removing its current boring tab bar on the left side on the window and replacing it with a drop-down menu....
GoPro has a slightly unconventional pricing strategy already. Typically, you’d need to pay £499.99 for the camera alone, or £399.99 total if you opt to add a 1-year subscription to GoPro’s subscription service to your basket. That essentially means you’re getting a discount for trialling the service, which you can choose to continue or end after your first year is up. Now, for a limited time only, you can pick up the camera and a 1-year GoPro subscription for just £347....
It has an extremely classy desktop environment (one of the most beautiful ever) and is lightweight, so it’s easy on your system resources. This article is all about my experience on Freya for the past few days and how it compares with Ubuntu 15.04 where I was coming from. Installation The ISO file can be downloaded from the Elementary OS website. Installation was easy enough, nearly exactly the same process as in Ubuntu....
In the early ’90s, some people had the bright idea to start packaging utilities with the Linux kernel to create distributions that essentially allowed programmers to run Unix, which was an operating system that they were familiar with on expensive computers from DEC and Sun, on cheap PCs. The earliest known distribution was by HJ Lu in early 1992. It consisted of two floppies: a “boot” disk to boot the system and a “root” disk that contained the filesystem, and from which it actually ran....
Both AdBlock and Facebook consider each other a thorn in their side. Their dispute has led to an unofficial sort of coding competition with millions of spectators wondering whether AdBlock will be able to keep up with Facebook’s advertising code. But what do Facebook engineers do that frustrates AdBlock developers so much? What’s Happening? An article on TechCrunch published on 11 August 2016 has shown a spat between AdBlock and Facebook in its full glory with vigorous coding on both sides....
If you’re not one of these people, however, you may not even know this button exists, so why not reappropriate it and turn it into something useful for yourself? We’ll show you how to make various apps available from the Windows login screen – whether it’s writing software, the command prompt (if you’re happy circumventing Windows Defender security), or Notepad so that you can quickly jot things down without having to log in....
Who is it? A pre-recorded message from a company you’ve never contacted before, or at least you think you haven’t. These calls can be annoying, but the good news is that there are things you can do to stop them from bothering you again. What Is Robocalling? Robocalling is when an autodialer makes a phone call to deliver a pre-recorded message. The message is usually associated with a political message or telemarketing phone campaigns (among other things)....
Block YouTube Channels from Appearing in Your Feed First, it’s worth trying the in-house method to block YouTube channels. Your YouTube homepage displays all manner of videos it thinks you might be interested in – from recent uploads on regularly visited channels to “recommended” videos based on your viewing habits. But these may include videos that you don’t want to see AT ALL. When that happens, you can block these channels from appearing in your feed....
Blur Images With Skitch Part of the popular Evernote family of products, Skitch is a fantastic product that everyone should have on their computer. Both ways work the same, so the image doesn’t appear differently if you use one method over the other. With Skitch, it is really easy to blur images on the Mac. However, if downloading a separate app isn’t for you, there is another method that works with the Photos app, which is pre-installed on Macs....
Why Choosing Your GPU Matters The thing about GPU is that it demands a lot of energy to keep it running under the hood. And that’s not all. For gamers, the GPU remains active after gaming; that’s some 100% of extra energy-sapping activity. Even if you’re not worried about climate change, you should care about the energy bills. For Windows 10 users, Microsoft provided a helpful feature to manage this issue....
There are many third-party solutions available to help with this problem such as Mailgun or Google Apps, but these are paid apps, and not everyone has the resources to dedicate to such solutions. The WordPress issue WordPress uses PHP as a backbone to its system, and many hosting providers have this PHP installation misconfigured, or even disabled, with a view to the security of their customers. This is the crux of the issue....
Check Your Current ZRAM State Most people use ZRAM on their Ubuntu, Mint, or other compatible distribution through the zram-config script. That’s because it allows you to take advantage of ZRAM in the most straightforward way possible. You can install it with the command: Its default values set ZRAM at half your computer’s actual RAM, split into multiple partitions, one for each core of your CPU. You can check this out with: You can see a typical swap file (the “/var/cache/swap/swapfile” entry) coexisting with eight ZRAM volumes in our screenshot....
With the advent of mobile devices, though, ePub and MOBI are becoming increasingly popular, but they support different things. EPub, or electronic publication, supports audio, video, and other embedded interactivity, and you can download and read the files on your mobile device or PC. MOBI or Mobipocket ebook file, stores digital books and supports bookmarking, adding notes or corrections, frames and JavaScript for use especially with low-bandwidth mobile devices. If you’re looking to capture the growing e-reader user market, you can convert your PDF files to ePub or Mobi format for ease of access and reading across multiple devices....
catdoc (in C) The first command line tool we are going to talk about is catdoc. The tool is written in C by V.B. Vagner. 1.1 How to install it: Download the tool from here. Go to your downloads directory and untar it. You can use the following commands (in case you are facing problem): Now we have a catdoc-0.94.2 directory. Go inside this directory and run the following commands to install it: The installation is an easy process and you should not face any problem here....
In Mac OS X when you double-click a disk image, instead of launching like an app, it gets mounted as a volume on your machine and can be accessed as if you were accessing an external hard drive. That feature distinguishes it from the other file types. If you wish to create a disk image for your file storage, you may want to create a blank one. Creating a blank disk image is an effortless process on a Mac, and the following guide should help you create one....
A bootable backup is what it sounds like: a backup that you can use to boot and run your computer. If your computer’s hard drive is damaged, the bootable backup is a second copy you can use to keep working. It also makes it possible to run your own computer off other Macs, if necessary. You can also pull individual files from a bootable backup. This makes it a detailed and comprehensive backup of your computer all on one disk....
You can be sure that eventually you are going to suffer from one of the following issues: An electrical failure A virus infection A fault in your operating system A faulty driver Any of these can change a system file or setting, which could make your system’s behaviour unstable. For this reason, we need to create backup and repair tools. Backup tools create copies of your system while repair utilities try to fix your system....
