Writing reStructuredText is extremely easy, however there are a few tweaks we can add to Vim to make adding reStructureText mark-up easier than using MS Word.

I recently needed a TFTP server in Ubuntu for PXE booting my MythTV system. This is a step-by-step HowTo to get a TFTP server up an running quickly.

Gedit is a simple text editing program that is installed with many Linux distributions. At first glance it does not appear to have advanced features needed for an IDE, but with a little bit of configuration it can be turned into a really nice code editor supporting Java, Python, C, C++, HTML and many other languages.

A fix for modifying the Ctrl-Alt-Del key combination on a Ubuntu desktop. The default keyboard shortcut GUI does not correctly affect the Ctrl-Alt-Del key combination. The problem was that no matter where I assigned the Ctrl-Alt-Del shortcut, it would always open the "Logout" menu.

Recently I was looking for a "countdown alarm clock" in Linux and decided to write a Bash script to do the job. The goal was to allow the user to enter a target date and time, then display a clock with the remaining time.