How to use fpaste to share problem reports
fpaste testpaste.txt -d my super secret password If you want to see all the options fpaste has to offer, check the man page. man fpaste fpaste your output While pas...
How to find information about built-in kernel modules on Linux
Is there a way to get a list of all built-in kernel modules and device drivers, and find detailed information about them? The modern Linux kernel has been growing significantly over ...
Google’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software works for 248+ languages
Developed as a community project during 1995-2006 and later taken over by Google, Tesseract is considered one of the most accurate OCR engines and works for over 60 languages. Howeve...
Exploring Tiling Window Managers
today’s howtos How to install go1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04 – NextGenTips In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programmin...
Everything is a file
It must be run as root because non-root users do not have access to the hard drive device files in the /dev directory. The dd command can be used to copy an entire partition of hard ...
Cold snap: Climate cooling and sea-level changes caused crocodilian retreat: Fluctuating sea levels and global cooling caused a significant decline in the number of crocodilian species over millions o
Fluctuating sea levels and global cooling caused a significant decline in the number of crocodylian species over millions of years, according to new research. For example, in Africa ...
A Story of Climate Change Told In 15 Graphs
Recently, on Twitter and Facebook I noticed graphs of climate change and its impacts being posted. Below I provide 15 graphs of climate change providing their sources. I encourage yo...
Quantum entanglement: New study predicts a quantum Goldilocks effect
The ‘just right’ structure that emerges when you drive a system containing light and matter (like the universe), neither too fast nor too slow across a quantum phase transition. A ne...
Physicists break distance record for quantum teleportation
The experiment confirmed that quantum communication is feasible over long distances in fiber. The new record, described in Optica, involved the transfer of quantum information contai...
New lineage of prehistoric, plankton-eating sharks discovered
An international team of scientists has discovered a new lineage of extinct plankton-feeding sharks, Pseudomegachasma, that lived in warm oceans during the age of the dinosaurs nearl...
How Do Fossils Form?
These crystallized minerals cause the remains to harden along with the encasing sedimentary rock. If an organism completely dissolves in sedimentary rock, it can leave an impression ...
2-million-year-old fossils reveal hearing abilities of early humans
We know that the hearing patterns, or audiograms, in chimpanzees and humans are distinct because their hearing abilities have been measured in the laboratory in living subjects, said...
How to Record and Replay Linux Terminal Sessions using ‘script’ and ‘scriptreplay’ Commands
In this guide we are going to look at how to use a script and scriptreplay commands in Linux that can help you to record commands and their output printed on your terminal during a g...
Damage-free structure of photosystem II and the synthesis of model compounds for water-oxidation
PSII is an extremely large membrane protein complex consisting of 20 subunits with a total molecular mass of 700 kDa for a dimer. However, due to the intense and continuous SR X-rays...
Unlocking secrets of how fossils form
Fossils tell amazing stories and inspire them, too – just think of this summer’s Jurassic World blockbuster. But because some of the processes that preserve fossils are not well unde...
Photosynthesis gene can help crops grow in adverse conditions
In separate experiments, the three types of plant were exposed to different stressful conditions: high salt concentrations, drought, and the herbicide paraquat, which stimulates prod...
Using Command Line Aliases – Frequently
today’s howtos How to install go1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04 – NextGenTips In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programmin...
10 Commands to Collect System and Hardware Info in Linux
How to View Linux System Information To know only the system name, you can use the uname command without any switch that will print system information or the uname -s command will p...
How to give a great talk, the lazy way
I give a lot of talks. What I put on my notes is the main points of the current slide, followed by my transition to the next slide. Presentations look a lot more natural when you say...
Gentoo Package Repository now using Git – Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Package Repository now using Git Aug 12, 2015 Good things come to those who wait: The main Gentoo package repository (also known as the Portage tree or by its historic name ...
Finding a good compression utility
No, what I want is to find the best compression for a given file, with best being either most reduced size (which I call compression delta in my script) best reduction obtained per...
World’s largest chain of volcanoes discovered in Australia
“This volcanic chain was created over the past 33 million years, as Australia moved north-northeast over a mantle plume hotspot which we believe is now located in Bass Strait,” the s...
World has lost 3 percent of its forests since 1990
The UN’s Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 was released this week, revealing that while the pace of forest loss has slowed, the damage over the past 25 years has been co...
The Past Teaching the Present: Ancient Sanskrit Texts Discuss the Importance of Environmental and Species Conservation
Nevertheless, this concept has been around for a much longer period of time, and can even be found in Sanskrit texts from ancient India. The Environment and Human Connection Lessons...
Aspen Stands Tall As Third US City Achieves 100% Renewable Electricity
Aspen, the Colorado skiing-Mecca, now stands tall as a renewable energy visionary, having become one of three US cities to run on 100% renewable electricity. This news was recently r...