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Learning Shell Scripting Language: A Guide from Newbies to System Administrator – October 3, 2013 Bash shell scripting Tutorial – Part I Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide bash Cookbook – UCLA only – licensed through O’Reilly Safari books online Unix: Debugging y...

According to Wikipedia, Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The first article in the list below is just t...

If you want to improve your web browsing security by disabling Java, here are directions for different web browsers: http://tantek.com/2012/364/b1/how-to-disable-java-now-chrome-firefox-opera-safari http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/ht/How-To-Disable-...

If you’ve ever inadvertently pasted a block of html into a GUI text editor and ended up with a set of html encoded greater than signs and other unreadable codes, this website helps you quickly convert back.http://htmlentities.net/Here’s an example:<...

One of the problems in building a website is testing how it works on different browsers. I know there are different solutions out there, but I just heard about this one today, so I’m starting a list here. Please add other techniques or useful sites. http://www...

I learned at least three things from this list, and I’ve been using ls for years.15 Basic ‘ls’ Command Examples in LinuxThe new things for me were: ls -lh – human readable format on file sizes ls -ltr – reverse output order, which is particularly useful when s...

File – A computer file is a way to store information on a computer so it can be used later, and perhaps exchanged with other people. Depending on what you are doing, you might have different types of files. For example if you write an essay for a class, then y...

Here are some interesting examples of cron job use. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/06/15-practical-crontab-examples/ – I didn’t know about @monthly, @yearly, and @reboot, or changing the MAIL destination setting. http://www.pantz.org/software/cron/croninfo.h...

Learn the basic building blocks of jQuery in a two hour combination of videos, and interactive console challenges. – http://try.jquery.com/Please list any other useful jQuery Tutorials you know of.

http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/ – “collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use.” organized by task Six Data Analysis Tools Anyone Can Use GGobi – “is an open source visualization program for exploring high-dimensional data.”Please add other...

Coming from Solaris to Linux, one thing I’ve missed for years was that the Linux bash history command doesn’t show timestamps. Thanks to my colleague, Shinn, I learned about this config settings that can go into .bashrc to solve that problem, and add a few ot...

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Upload a PDF, get back tabular CSV data. Introducing Tabula Tabula Demo Site Tabula source codeEDIT:I just used this application with great success to convert the data from old instructor evaluations into csv form. It took some jury-rigging to get the output i...

Most of the Pew Research Center survey and other quantitative data is freely available for secondary analysis by researchers. (Experience with SPSS, SAS, or STATA software is helpful.)http://www.pewresearch.org/2013/04/18/how-to-access-pew-research-datasets/

If you have any tools for monitoring Linux, or have comments or limitations on these, please add them to this article. Thanks, 15 Command Line Tools to Monitor Linux Performance

Please Do Update articles in your area of expertise. Create a new page if you want to remember a particular tool, technique, or website and it’s not private information. Create a new page if you want to share a resource or some information that has helped ...

How to Use INDEX+MATCH WithMultiple Criteria in 5 Easy Steps (includes Excel 2016) How To Use Index/Match, The One Microsoft Excel Trick That Separates The Gurus From The Interns The First 8 Excel Tricks You Have To Learn On The Way To Becoming A Master

Web scraping tools, services, and plugins: a comprehensive listRuby project called Upton – haven’t tried it yet but it’s from the Tumblr blog Onethingwell whose picks tend to be OK.10 Web Scraping Tools to Extract Online Data – added April 2016. Includes use ...