Bring Out the GIMP Part 1: GIMP Basics

Maximum PC starts a series of tutorials for The GIMP

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10 shortcuts to master bash

The Linux shell program bash hides some powerful tools and shortcuts, here are 10 to get you started.



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5 e-mail habits that waste time and cause problems

Few communications tools give you as much exposure as e-mail. Unfortunately, mistakes in your e-mail will receive that same exposure as well. Depending on who sees your e-mail, your job, reputation, or career could suffer. Fortunately, avoiding these mistakes is easy. Here are five e-mail habits that annoy me.



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A device to automatically detect drivers talking on their cell phones

Already in use in a few European countries the system will make it to the US this fall it is designed to detect, identify and cite drivers who break cell phone us laws." . The company attaches a paint gun to mark the car, or even an EMP gun that can disable the offending cell phone.



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Free Online Ubuntu Linux Books

Here, you can read many free online Linux books including Ubuntu Linux books such as "Moving to Ubuntu Linux", "The official Ubuntu Book", "Ubuntu Unleashed", "Ubuntu Hacks".



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10 Linux Shell Tricks You Don't Already Know.

Here’s a bunch of useful commands you haven’t heard before.



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Firefox Hack- Pasting multiple lines into input boxes

If you've ever tried copying and pasting a multi-line address into Google Maps just to realize that an input box will only take one line at a time—meaning that you have to copy and paste each line individually—there's a simple Firefox tweak that will solve this problem



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Ubuntu - Issue #1 Full Circle Magazine Released

The people at Full Circle Magazine (on digg a bit earlier, too) have released Issue 1 of Full Circle Magazine, an Ubuntu e-magazine. Take a look!



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How to please your IT department (NOT)

1. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and children’s art. We don’t have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.

2. Don’t write anything down. Ever. We can play back the error messages from here.

3. When an IT person says he’s coming right over, go for coffee. That way you won’t be there when we need your password. It’s nothing for us to remember 700 screen saver passwords.

4. When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what’s keeping you from getting it. We don’t need to know that you can’t get into your mail because your computer won’t power on at all.

5. When IT support sends you an e-mail with high importance, delete it at once. We’re just testing.

6. When an IT person is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.

7. Send urgent e-mail all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery.

8. When the photocopier doesn’t work, call computer support. There are electronics in it.

9. When something’s wrong with your home PC, dump it on an IT person’s chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the problem. We love a puzzle.

10. When an IT person tells you that computer screens don’t have cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument.

11. When an IT person tells you that he’ll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: “And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?” That motivates us.

12. When the printer won’t print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.

13. When the printer still won’t print after 20 tries, send the job to all 68 printers in the company. One of them is bound to work.

14. Don’t learn the proper term for anything technical. We know exactly what you mean by “My thingy blew up.”

15. Don’t use on-line help. On-line help is for wimps.

(From jokester.com)