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Off the Beat * Bruce Byfield
Coming Attractions for 2015 Last year at this time, I was waiting for Vivaldi, the free-licensed KDE tablet, to go into production. That never happened, and free software is worse off for Vivaldi's disappearance. But, undaunted, I find myself looking ahead once again to three of the events likely to have a major influence on free software in the next 12 months.
Improving on Bug Reports There's nothing like the comments to justify an article. After I wrote about the average user's difficulty with filing bugs, the responses came rapidly.
Why I Rarely File Bug Reports "Any chance of a bug report?" a developer asked when I mentioned a problem with an application on social media. As a free software supporter, I felt an obligation to oblige, but in practice, the chance was slim.
Productivity Sauce * Dmitri Popov
Add Desktop Notifications to Shell Scripts with notify-send Monitoring a running shell script usually means keeping an eye on the terminal window. Obviously, that's not the most productive way to spend your time, so instead of staring at the terminal, you can equip shell scripts with desktop notifications that give you visual feedback when specific events occur.
Fla.sh: The Simplest Flashcard Tool Consisting of merely 40 lines of code, the fla.sh Bash script is hands down the most simple and lightweight flashcard tool out there.
Push Files from Android Using Send With FTP Although Android file managers like Ghost Commander can be used to transfer files and documents to a remote FTP server, the Send With FTP app provides a more elegant way to do this.
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Nmon: All-Purpose Admin Tool * Jeff Layton
The most common issue users have is poor or unexpected application performance. In this case, you need a simple tool to help you understand what's happening on the nodes: nmon.
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Security Data Analytics and Visualization with R * Russ McRee
Conduct improved security analysis and visualization of security-related data using R, a scripting language for statistical data manipulation and analysis.
Coming to Grips with grep * Chris Binnie
Now is the time to re-examine and consider again the power of grep and its relatives.
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