I shall explain how to setup PPP on your Linux machine, so that you can connect to the Internet using an external modem and a Dialup connection. This article explains the setup for the superuser alone (Not normal users).

This article explains setting up of PCI Creative Ensonic 1371 soundcard . You can either make Linux detect the PCI soundcard using its default soundcard drivers OR use 3rd party drivers to make the whole job easy. I have used the 3rd party drivers called ALSA drivers which are very popular.

Basically Linux can access (after mounting) any partition, whose filesystem it can recognize (e.g. Fat 32, Ext2). Windows 95/98 partitions are Fat32 partitions and these can be accessed through Linux with some settings. This article helps you do that. Once you have done that, you can save your work on these partitions and also access all your data from these partitions.

I shall list the Linux equivalent of the Windows COM ports. This information is generally found in the HowTo section, but if you haven't found it there, here it is for quick reference.

LILO stands for Linux Loader. The contents of the /etc/lilo.conf file (in RedHat Linux 6) decide what LILO does during booting. This article explains one possible setup on your machine, where you could have Linux and Windows 95 together on one computer. The important lines in the lilo.conf file are the location of your Windows and Linux partitions.

This article deals with what action is to be taken (during a reboot) after a power failure or an incomplete shutdown of a Linux system due to any reason. This problem seems to be very common since many newcomers install Linux and get all the various softwares/hardwares working under Linux and suddenly one day the power fails. And there after they are totally clueless as to what to do ..since they...

This series 'Using Emacs' shall explain how to make effective use of Emacs. There are books that are about 1k pages thick that teach you to use Emacs.They not only cost a lot but also overwhelm you with unnecessary capabilites of Emacs (atleast for newbies).

Scheduling of tasks under Linux is an extremely powerful procedure which is used by almost everyone. Scheduling of tasks basically means running whichever program you want at a particular time without having to manually be present at the machine at that time. Linux will run that program for you at that time. In this article I shall explain the simplest way to schedule tasks using the simple...

This article explains task scheduling using a program called cron which is used for complex task scheduling. Scheduling of tasks under Linux is an extremely powerful procedure which is used by almost everyone. The basic advantage of cron over at is that if you want a task to occur at regular intervals or basically more than once, then you don't have to repeatedly enter 'at' commands multiple...

You would be introduced to concepts such as Ranges, Step Values.. Few Tips On Cron : To know what tasks cron shall be executing you can use the following command

This is actually no tutorial in a real sense. It is a simple tip which many newcomers would appreciate. Most of the Linux commands that you type create a lot of text at the output, and generally this text scrolls off the screen. Pressing the <Up Arrow> key simply gets the last command executed and doesn't let you see the text that scrolled up the screen.

Files can be found under Linux in many different ways. Using the find tool is one of the best ways to find files. The find tool has a huge number of parameters which can be set so that Linux finds exactly those files that you were searching for. Many users use the find tool with just the basic parameters. They get the results that they were looking for.

This article explains 2 simple commands that most people want to know when they start using Linux. They are finding the size of a directory and finding the amount of free disk space that exists on your machine. The command you would use to find the directory size is ' du '. And to find the free disk space you could use ' df '.

Pipes is probably one of the most important features that is available in the Unix shell. This feature is simply astonishing, specially to people who are not familiar to the concept of pipes are totally surprised when they see it work. Without further delay, lets get to the core issue.

Grep is by far the most popular command that exists in Unix. Though some may argue about that, but once you begin using grep, it would always be present in all your complex commands that you think of executing at the shell prompt. grep stands for 'global regular expression printer' . Which makes no sense to most.. In sensible words grep extracts those lines from a given text that match the...