The meanings of –exclude and –exclude-from are always confusing to me. I’m always confused with the use of ‘exclude’ options with ‘tar’.

With the recent news from Yahoo that GeoCities is going to be discontinued on October 26, 2009, the Internet Archive is working to ensure their collection of GeoCities sites is as deep and thorough as possible.

VirtualBox can be given higher priority using nice command. Also renice command can be used to change the priority of a running process.

Problem:I'm using grep to search for an error and want to display the surrounding lines also as they contain related information. How to do that? Solution:Using grep -C <# of lines to show above and below> <search> <file> The following prints the matched line, along with the 5 lines surrounding it. $ grep -C 5 [...]

I was just creeping through YouTube, just to find something interesting to watch,what got my attention was the changed YouTube logo.Just a little Google search revealed that this green logo is to celebrate the Saint Patrick’s Day. Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide by the those of Irish descent and increasingly by non-Irish people (usually [...]