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Kate: Not allowing to Edit Specific Files – Solution

Recently I encountered an interesting problem with Kate. When ever I opened certain files it opened them in read only mode. The files had the necessary permissions to let me write and I could open them in nano or vim and edit them successfully. There can be multiple reasons for this happening: File is in […]

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Compressing files in Linux & Unix – Cheat Sheet

Here is a quick cheat-sheet on How To Compress files in Linux & Unix Zip zip archive file1 file2 file3 Compresses file1 file2 file3 into an achive with filename archive.zip zip archive * Compresses all files in the current directory into an achive with filename archive.zip zip -r archive dir Compresses the directory dir(and its […]

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Protect your Thumb Drive from Viruses using a Simple Hack

One of the easiest ways for getting your system infected with viruses is by using infected thumbdrives.  Most viruses create a startup file with the name “autorun.inf” and in the file point to the location of the virus(within the drive) to be run automatically when the thumb drive is detected. Most Antivirus programs detect these […]