A friend of mine and myself were messing around in linux installed in our laptops. He's got Ubuntu installed and I have FC2. He asked if why does linux have such ugly fonts and I told him that he can ...

For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

So, I'm having trouble accessing some SMB shares located on my home Linux server. To make things display right via a single share, I've put links to other folders in a mastershare folder, and that has ...

When you work with the command line, you’ll notice that you cannot navigate “into” aliases created with the Finder when in Terminal. For example, you cannot issue a cd command into an alias, because ...

You wouldn't know it just by looking, but Mac OS X has two types of aliases. The first are the traditional aliases, which work the same way they do in Mac OS 9. The second type are called symbolic ...