Like seeing rainbows all over the place? Does it make you especially happy to have a colorful terminal? Yeah, me too. There’s a little Ruby program called lolcat and it will help you out (in the happiness department). Steps to a…

I’m currently working on setting up a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and I like to have a clean login menu with no extra options. In a previous post I showed how to disable the guest account and remote login in Ubuntu 13.04…

In a case-sensitive system like Linux, I prefer naming my directories with all lowercase and underscores. This is kind of difficult when the default user directories are all uppercase (Documents, Pictures, etc.). Here’s a quick tutorial on how to change…

For a long time my favorite Terminal program has been Guake. It is “a drop-down terminal for GNOME Desktop Environment.” It is always available and hidden when not in use. Simply press a button and it pops out from top…

Last week, while going through and changing passwords because of Heartbleed, I started to think about security and what of mine could be affected. First thing that came to mind was the server running in my room, which hosts a website and…