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Read It Later: One List Everywhere You Are. Google tips & tricks. These searches are even going too far.

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You rarely need to use operators to make a proper search. Even without thinking about operators, people are still incredibly stupid at googling. Such as that they ask a question, as if they are talking to a person, instead of googling the words that are relevant. The only operator you need at lot, is quotes. Other than that, people just need to learn to put the words that are relevant for their search. You don’t need to know, that you can search for “define:angry” Instead just search for “angry definition” or “definition angry” That should be common sense, and will get you all the same results. Why search for “author:green photosynthesis”? How to Create a Proxy Server - Video. How To Create a Panic Button. Free Software. Hacking Tip: Hide Your IP Address.

15 Killer Google Chrome Features You Might Not Know About. 70 Things Every Computer Geek Should Know. The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years.

What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness. As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field. A geek is one who isn’t satisfied knowing only the surface facts, but instead has a visceral desire to learn everything possible about a particular subject.

A techie geek is usually one who knows a little about everything, and is thus the person family and friends turn to whenever they have a question. If you’re that type of person and are looking for a few extra skills to pick up, or if you’re a newbie aiming to get a handhold on the honor that is geekhood, read on to find out what skills you need to know. How to become a real computer Geek?

You may get the answer here: HTML Cheatsheet &124; Webmonkey&&124; Wired.com. Hacking Tip: Trace IP addresses to a location. Hacking Tip: Forge E-mail Addresses. Shells and Shell Scripts. A Unix shell is a command language interpreter, the primary purpose of which is to translate command lines typed at a terminal into system actions.

Shells and Shell Scripts

The shell itself is a program through which other programs are invoked. Although there are several different Unix shells, among them the C shell (csh), the Bourne shell and the Korn shell, the one most frequently used on Blake within Berkeley UNIX is the C shell. The shell has some built-in functions, which it performs directly, but most commands that you enter cause the shell to execute programs that are external to the shell. This sets the shell apart from other command interpreters, because it is just another user program at the same time that it functions almost exclusively as a mechanism for invoking other programs.

For more information about the C shell, refer to the article ``An Introduction to the C Shell,'' by William Joy, in the Unix User's Manual Supplementary Documents volume. What is a Script? Sh me More on Scripts.