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Protect Your Eyes From Strain With Redshift

Protect Your Eyes From Strain With Redshift in Linux

Redshift, free software for Linux, automatically adjusts your screen’s colour temperature based on your location and the time of day. Here’s how it works.

By Attila Orosz – May 9, 2015

How to Perform Load Monitoring in Linux Using atop

How to Perform Load Monitoring in Linux Using atop

Atop is an interactive monitor to view the load on a Linux system. In this article we will discuss how to perform load monitoring using this tool.

By Himanshu Arora – May 8, 2015

Should You Upgrade to Ubuntu 15.04?

Should You Upgrade to Ubuntu 15.04?

Still using Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10? Not sure whether it’s worth upgrading to Ubuntu 15.04? In this article we’ll help you decide which is best for you.

By Derrik Diener – May 7, 2015

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How to Sort Files by Extension in Ubuntu Nautilus

Nautilus in Ubuntu has gotten rid of features to sort files by extension. Here is how you can restore the feature and the ability to sort files by extension.

By Damien Oh – May 7, 2015

Visualize Memory Use on Linux with Smem

Visualize Memory Use on Linux with Smem

Using smem, you can view a color-coded bar and pie chart of the memory used by processes in a Linux system.

By Obaro Ogbo – May 4, 2015

Picty is a Simple and Easy to Use Photo Manager for Ubuntu

If you’re on Linux and looking for a good photo manager, Picty is highly recommended as simple to use and can support large photo collections. Let’s check it out.

By Himanshu Arora – Apr 28, 2015

Make Your Audio Sound Better With Pulse Audio Equalizer on Ubuntu

Make Your Audio Sound Better with Pulse Audio Equalizer on Ubuntu

You might find yourself disappointed that you can’t tweak your Linux sound setup to have an equalizer. Luckily, Pulse Audio Equalizer can help with the rescue.

By Derrik Diener – Apr 24, 2015

Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive Easily with Gnome Disk Utility

Back Up and Restore Your Hard Drive Easily with Gnome Disk Utility

Having only one hard drive to hold your personal files can be dangerous. This is why backing up your hard drive via Gnome disk utility is essential.

By Derrik Diener – Apr 17, 2015

How to Check and Monitor Hard Disk Health on Linux with Smartmontools

How to Check and Monitor Hard Disk Health on Linux with Smartmontools

Smartmontools is a free software package that takes advantage of modern hard drives with SMART capabilities. It can monitor your drives and report errors. Let’s check it out.

By Obaro Ogbo – Apr 14, 2015

How to Disable GTK3 Client-Side Decorations on Ubuntu

How to Disable GTK3 Client-Side Decorations on Ubuntu

Outside of Gnome Shell, client-side decorations on windows can be quite annoying. Luckily, someone has created some software to bypass these decorations.

By Derrik Diener – Apr 13, 2015

How to Remove White Noise from Audio in Audacity

How to Remove White Noise from Audio in Audacity

Have you ever recorded a vocal track in Audacity only to find that your recording has a ton of white noise in it? Try using this quick trick to remove white noise.

By Derrik Diener – Apr 4, 2015

Windows 10 & Secure Boot: Is Linux Really Doomed?

Windows 10 & Secure Boot: Is Linux Really Doomed?

Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will not require manufacturers to include an option to turn off secure boot. Is Linux being phased out by design?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Apr 3, 2015

Linux Real-Time Process Monitor (Top) Explained

Linux Real-Time Process Monitor (Top) Explained

The Linux real-time process monitor -top is a very versatile and handy program. Read on for an explanation of top along with some of its options.

By Obaro Ogbo – Apr 2, 2015

How to Decompile a Video File Into Images with FFMPEG on Linux

How to Decompile a Video File Into Images with FFMPEG on Linux

Ever recorded a video clip and then wondered “How do I turn this entire thing into individual images?” This guide will show how to decompile videos on Linux.

By Derrik Diener – Apr 1, 2015

Check Running Processes Like a Power User

Check Running Processes Like a Power User

The ‘ps’ command is an invaluable tool used to check running processes on a Unix system. Discover some amazing options available to ‘ps.’

By Obaro Ogbo – Mar 31, 2015

Chat With Your Steam Friends in Pidgin or Empathy on Linux

How to Add Steam Chat to Pidgin or Empathy on Linux

It is kind of a pain to have to open Steam just to chat with your friends. Here is how you can bypass this by adding Steam chat to Pidgin on Linux.

By Derrik Diener – Mar 21, 2015

How to Create Your Own NAS With GlusterFS

GlusterFS provides network storage which has the ability to be made fault-tolerant, redundant and scalable. Here’s how you can set up your own NAS.

By Sarah Li Cain – Mar 17, 2015

6 Cool Uses of Linux Live CDs

In case you are wondering, here are a few useful and important reasons why you might want to have a Linux live CD with you all the time.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 17, 2015

Recover Files from Ext3/Ext4 Filesystem with Linux

Recover Files From Ext3/Ext4 Filesystem with Linux Live CD

Accidentally deleted your files in your Linux machine? Here is how you can recover files from Ext3/Ext4 filesystem with a Linux live CD.

By Obaro Ogbo – Mar 16, 2015

Organize Your Notes With CherryTree

CherryTree: A Powerful Notepad For Easy Note Taking

CherryTree, an Evernote client written in Python for Linux and Windows, lets you organize notes in a smart and logical way. Let’s check it out.

By Ivana Isadora Devcic – Mar 13, 2015

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Every Apollo guidance computer that flew to the Moon had its software literally woven by hand at a Raytheon factory outside Boston, where women threaded copper wire through tiny magnetic cores to encode each bit as either a one or a zero, a process the engineers nicknamed LOL memory for Little Old Lady.

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When Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed a top-secret MiG-25 at a Japanese airport in September 1976, American engineers tearing it down expected to find titanium and microchips, and instead they found vacuum tubes, rivets popped by hand, and a stainless steel airframe so heavy it could only fly fast in a straight line.

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When survivors near Lake Nyos woke on the morning of 22 August 1986, the cattle were dead in the fields, the birds had fallen out of the trees, and 1,746 of their neighbours were lying where they had stood the night before, with no fire, no flood, and no wound to explain it.

Jun 4, 2026

In 1959, a Soviet research team in Novosibirsk began breeding silver foxes for nothing but tameness, and within forty generations the animals had floppy ears, curled tails, piebald coats, and a bark, traits no one had selected for but which appeared on their own once fear was removed.

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In October 2002, a Russian scientist named Dimitri Malashenkov stood up at a space conference in Houston and quietly explained that the dog Laika, whom the Soviet Union had publicly mourned as a heroic week-long orbiter in 1957, had actually died of heat and panic within about five hours of launch.

Jun 4, 2026

Close-up view of an inkjet printer with exposed cartridges in a workspace setting.

In May 2017, an NSA contractor named Reality Winner mailed a printed classified document to a news outlet, and federal agents identified her within days because the yellow tracking dots on the page named the exact printer in her office and the minute she had pressed print.

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