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39 40</head> 41 42<body> 43 44 45 <div class="sidebar"> 46 <div class="container sidebar-sticky"> 47 <div class="sidebar-about"> 48 <h1><a href="/">nixtutor.com</a></h1> 49 <p class="lead"> 50 Helping you Learn Linux 51 </p> 52 </div> 53 54 <div class="side-rs"> 55 <a href="https://www.rocketshipit.com/"><img src="/wp-content/themes/NixTutor/images/rocket-shipit-ad.jpg" style="margin-top: 10px;" alt="RocketShipIt - Shipping made easy"></a> 56 </div> 57 <ul class="sidebar-nav"> 58 <li><a href="/">Home</a> </li> 59 <li><a href="/post/">All Posts</a></li> 60 <li><a href="/about/">About</a></li> 61 <li><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></li> 62 63 </ul> 64 65 <p>© <span id="copyright-year"></span> All rights reserved. </p> 66 </div> 67</div> 68 69 70 <div class="content container"> 71 <div class="posts"> 72 73 <div class="post"> 74 <article class="post"> 75 <header> 76 <h2><a href="/miscellaneous/linux-layout-for-windows-users/">Linux layout for Windows users </a> </h2> 77 <div class="post-meta">Thu, Feb 13, 2025</div> 78 </header> 79 80 Introduction When it comes to operating systems, Linux and Windows are two of the most widely used platforms. While they both serve the same fundamental purpose of managing computer resources and providing an interface for users to interact with the system, there are significant differences in how they structure and organize their file systems. In this article, we’ll explore the contrasting approaches of the Linux file system hierarchy and the Windows file system, highlighting the key differences and similarities between the two. 81 <footer> 82 <a href='/miscellaneous/linux-layout-for-windows-users/'><nobr>Read more â</nobr></a> 83 </footer> 84</article> 85 86 </div> 87 88 <div class="post"> 89 90 </div> 91 92 <div class="post"> 93 94 </div> 95 96 <div class="post"> 97 <article class="post"> 98 <header> 99 <h2><a href="/linux/your-chance-to-contribute-to-an-open-source-project/">Your Chance to Contribute to an Open Source Project </a> </h2> 100 <div class="post-meta">Wed, Oct 7, 2009</div> 101 </header> 102 103 <p>I originally created a simple site monitoring Python script and posted it up to github as a “gist”: <a href="https://gist.github.com/177420">177420</a>. It was then improved by <a href="https://github.com/eriwen">Eric Wendelin</a> who forked my original gist and made it better in this gist: <a href="https://gist.github.com/187610">187610 </a>.</p> 104 105<p>Eric had made the script much more “pythonic” and really made the code more usable and expendable which he explains in his blog post, <a href="http://eriwen.com/python/site-monitor/">Site monitoring with Python and cron</a>. He had made the script accept command line arguments and even added a way to send email through Python if you didn’t want to setup your own mail daemon.</p> 106 107<p>I thought his additions were a great example of open source coding in action.</p> 108 109 <footer> 110 <a href='/linux/your-chance-to-contribute-to-an-open-source-project/'><nobr>Read more â</nobr></a> 111 </footer> 112</article> 113 114 </div> 115 116 <div class="post"> 117 <article class="post"> 118 <header> 119 <h2><a href="/linux/automatically-take-a-screenshot-and-make-it-public-using-dropbox/">Automatically Take a Screenshot and Make it Public using Dropbox </a> </h2> 120 <div class="post-meta">Wed, Sep 9, 2009</div> 121 </header> 122 123 <p>If you already have Dropbox you already know that it has a Public folder where you can save files for everyone to download. If you are using the GUI version of Dropbox you can even right click on the file and get a public link to hand out. Although this works great, we can automate this process and make it easier.</p> 124 125 <footer> 126 <a href='/linux/automatically-take-a-screenshot-and-make-it-public-using-dropbox/'><nobr>Read more â</nobr></a> 127 </footer> 128</article> 129 130 </div> 131 132 <div class="post"> 133 <article class="post"> 134 <header> 135 <h2><a href="/linux/creating-an-in-house-dropbox-phase-1/">Creating an in-house Dropbox: Phase 1 </a> </h2> 136 <div class="post-meta">Wed, Aug 26, 2009</div> 137 </header> 138 139 <h2>Create a Central Repository</h2> 140 141<p>Create a folder on a large hard drive or raid your main computer/server</p> 142 143<p>For example:</p> 144 145<pre><code>mkdir /meda/drobo/inhouseDropbox 146</code></pre> 147 148<p>On the repository machine install Unison</p> 149 150<pre><code>sudo apt-get install unison 151</code></pre> 152 153<p>On the local machine connect via SSH and test that the install went ok</p> 154 155<pre><code>ssh yourhostname unison -version 156</code></pre> 157 158<p>You should see something like, “<strong>
158unison version 2.27.57</strong>”.</p> 159 160<p>Create a file in your repository directory:</p> 161 162<pre><code>test.txt 163</code></pre> 164 165 <footer> 166 <a href='/linux/creating-an-in-house-dropbox-phase-1/'><nobr>Read more â</nobr></a> 167 </footer> 168</article> 169 170 </div> 171 172 <div class="post"> 173 <article class="post"> 174 <header> 175 <h2><a href="/linux/using-rsync/">Using Rsync </a> </h2> 176 <div class="post-meta">Wed, Aug 5, 2009</div> 177 </header> 178 179 <h2>What is rsync?</h2> 180 181<p>Rysnc helps you transfer data from one location to another in an efficient manner. It is one of those tools that you learn to use and wonder how you lived without it. Rsync is the de facto standard in backup solutions because of its flexibility and power.</p> 182 183 <footer> 184 <a href='/linux/using-rsync/'><nobr>Read more â</nobr></a> 185 </footer> 186</article> 187 188 </div> 189 190 <div class="post"> 191 <article class="post"> 192 <header> 193 <h2><a href="/linux/7-tasks-you-shouldnt-use-a-gui-for/">7 Tasks You Shouldn't Use a GUI For </a> </h2> 194 <div class="post-meta">Wed, Jul 29, 2009</div> 195 </header> 196 197 <p>Here are a few tasks that you might want to consider using the command line for.</p> 198 199 <footer> 200 <a href='/linux/7-tasks-you-shouldnt-use-a-gui-for/'><nobr>Read more â</nobr></a> 201 </footer> 202</article> 203 204 </div> 205 206 <div class="post"> 207 <article class="post"> 208 <header> 209 <h2><a href="/linux/linux-shutdown-management/">Linux Shutdown Management </a> </h2> 210 <div class="post-meta">Wed, Jul 8, 2009</div> 211 </header> 212 213 <h2>The Commands</h2> 214 215<p>Here are a few example of all the ways we can shutdown and reboot on a nix machine.</p> 216 217 <footer> 218 <a href='/linux/linux-shutdown-management/'><nobr>Read more â</nobr></a> 219 </footer> 220</article> 221 222 </div> 223 224 <div class="post"> 225 <article class="post"> 226 <header> 227 <h2><a href="/linux/sending-mail-through-gmail-with-perl/">Sending Mail Through Gmail with Perl </a> </h2> 228 <div class="post-meta">Mon, Jul 6, 2009</div> 229 </header> 230 231 <p>We talked about some of the <a href="/linux/the-benefits-of-setting-up-ssmtp-or-any-email-server/">benefits</a> of <a href="/linux/send-mail-with-gmail-and-ssmtp/">setting up an email server in Linux</a> and how you can <a href="/linux/send-mail-through-gmail-with-python/">use python to send email</a>. Now we are going to look at how you can send email from Perl.</p> 232 233 <footer> 234 <a href='/linux/sending-mail-through-gmail-with-perl/'><nobr>Read more â</nobr></a> 235 </footer> 236</article> 237 238 </div> 239 240 </div> 241 242 <a href="/post/">View all posts</a> 243 244
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