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Fix Windows and Linux Showing Different Times When Dual Booting

If your system dual boots both Windows and Linux, you might notice that it’s impossible to get the system clocks to sync. Fortunately, there’s a relatively easy fix for that.

By Alexander Fox – Jan 1, 2018

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How to Configure Linux for Children

While Linux is seen as needlessly complex, you can easily configure Linux for children and make it kids-friendly and easy to use.

By Alexander Fox – Dec 26, 2017

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4 Awesome Places to Find Beautiful Linux Themes and Icons

Tired of the default look of your Linux desktop? Fret not, here are some places where you can find beautiful Linux themes and icons for you to fully customize your desktop.

By Bruno Edoh – Dec 22, 2017

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Getting Started in Bitcoin? Check Out These 5 Bitcoin Clients for Linux

There are many Bitcoin clients that support Linux but only a few that are really good. Here are 5 of the best Bitcoin clients for Linux that we recommend.

By Bruno Edoh – Dec 15, 2017

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How to Search PDF Files from the Terminal with pdfgrep

Most of the search commands only read plain text files and not PDFs. To search PDF files from the terminal, you can use pdfgrep. Learn about pdfgrep here.

By Bruno Edoh – Dec 12, 2017

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LibreOffice vs. WPS Office: Which Office Suite Should You Use on Linux

LibreOffice and WPS Office are two common MS Office alternatives for Linux. We take a look here at both and see which is more suited for your Linux desktop.

By Bruno Edoh – Dec 5, 2017

How to Change Your Password on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian OS)

The Raspberry Pi is great but is a little lacking in security out of the box. Here we’ll show you how to change a Raspberry Pi password and secure your Pi.

By Robert Zak – Dec 4, 2017

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How to Get Vanilla GNOME Shell in Ubuntu

Ubuntu recently made the jump to GNOME, but the default still looks a lot like Unity. If you’d like the vanilla GNOME experience, follow this guide.

By Nick Congleton – Nov 29, 2017

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How to Install Software Via the Command Line in Various Linux Distros

Different Linux distributions use different package managers to handle installing software. Take a look at the install commands on these popular distros.

By Nick Congleton – Nov 24, 2017

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How to Get the Trello Desktop Client on Linux

Trello is available for most platforms, except for Linux. If you are a Linux user, this unofficial client will allow you to access Trello from the desktop. Check it out!

By Bruno Edoh – Nov 22, 2017

Useful GNOME Shell Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know About

Gnome shell comes with some useful keyboard shortcuts. Here are some useful and lesser-known Gnome Shell keyboard shortcuts you should use to improve your productivity.

By Ada Ivanova – Nov 20, 2017

Remember Commands On Linux

How to Easily Remember Linux Commands

It can be so difficult for new users to remember Linux commands that they need to fully utilize their system. These tricks make it easier to do so.

By Nick Congleton – Nov 17, 2017

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Record and Share Terminal Session with Showterm

You can record a terminal session with any screen recording program, but Showterm for Linux makes it very easy to record and embed on a site. Here’s how it works.

By Bruno Edoh – Nov 16, 2017

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How to Play Hearthstone on Ubuntu Linux

Hearthstone is not only a popular online card game, it’s a major e-sport. Learn how to play this popular game on Ubuntu Linux.

By Nick Congleton – Oct 31, 2017

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5 of the Best Gaming Mice For Linux

It can be hard to find gaming peripherals that work well with Linux. These five gaming mice work well on Linux with and without open-source drivers.

By Nick Congleton – Oct 27, 2017

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How to Quickly Type Special Characters in Linux

Typing a special character can be a troublesome task in most operating systems. Here are a few tricks to quickly type special characters in Linux.

By Ayo Isaiah – Oct 26, 2017

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What to Expect from the Ubuntu 17.10 Release

One of the hottest events in October is the release of Ubuntu 17.10 with Gnome desktop. Here’s what you can expect to find in this Ubuntu 17.10 release.

By Ada Ivanova – Oct 23, 2017

What Are the Hidden Files in my Linux Home Directory For?

Do you know that your Home directory in your Linux system contains a lot of hidden files and folders? Here are some of the uses of the hidden files in Linux.

By Alexander Fox – Oct 17, 2017

How to Set Up a USB Modem in Linux

Setting up and use a USB modem on Linux is not as straightfoward. Here is how you can manually setup USB modem in Linux and get mobile broadband working.

By Jackson Mwendwa – Oct 13, 2017

10 Free Linux Productivity Apps You Haven’t Heard Of

Productivity apps can make your work easier. If you are a Linux user, these 10 lesser-known free productivity apps for the Linux desktop can help you.

By Ada Ivanova – Oct 9, 2017

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Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

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A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

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Octopuses possess roughly 500 million neurons distributed across their body, with two-thirds located in their arms rather than their central brain, meaning each arm can taste, problem-solve, and react to stimuli independently of whatever the octopus is otherwise paying attention to.

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Explore the historic Roman bridge in lush Salamanca, Spain captured beautifully in daylight.

The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, built around the first century AD without mortar, still carried water into the 1970s, its 167 granite arches held together by nothing but the precise weight distribution of stones cut to fit each other within fractions of a millimeter.

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In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as numbers, even composing music if harmony could be reduced to rules, inside seven translator’s notes three times longer than the paper itself

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ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

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