Shevin

during my investigation to find out the location of a the malicious script on my server,I found out 7GB folder on my account that I didnt know where they are. (the spam files) the "du" come very handy for me today to list all the folders and their sizes in the current directory :

du -sh *

the output will be something like this:

 root@server # du * -sh
14M administrator
824K cache
4.0K cgi-bin
24K cli
2.4M components
4.0K configuration.php
152K discussion
4.0K error_log
4.0K htaccess.txt
7GB images
60K includes

If you are like me used to switch tabs everywhere by CTRL+T , you might also find it frustrating that it doesn't work in Terminal .

Tip of the day : to switch tabs in terminal simply learn this shortcut:

DePaul Linux Community invites all  the Linux geeks in Chicago to join us a meet up conference in DePaul University.

I can't believe I let my gedit to be that slow for that long time in ubuntu, I knew there is a way to make Gedit faster.
it is simple go to preferences, and disable all disable all the unnecessary plugins, specially the "File Browser". infact that File Browser is the source of the problem, every time you open a gedit is does some file s

Nowadays you dont really need to download an ISO of an operating system and install it yourself in virtualbox, you can download one of these Virtualbox pre-installed appliances for free .
(it is a shame some websites actualy ask you money for that) here is a good repository of pre-installed virtual machines.

http://virtualboxes.org/images/