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package libnotify-bin

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

A library that sends desktop notifications to a notification daemon, as defined in the Desktop Notifications spec. These notifications can be used to inform the user about an event or display some form of information without getting in the user’s way.

This is a wonderfully useful utility to display notifications from scripts that you might be […]

tips and tricks: history

Monday, September 25th, 2006

One thing over looked by most newbies to linux is the history command.
At a command prompt type history.
user@system:~$ history

544 ls -lha
545 clear
546 man history
547 history
A list of several hundred commands will be returned. Not only will this let you see what […]