One of the commands that I miss most from Linux when working in Windows/DOS environments is the split command. This extremely handy command allows one to split a large file into multiple smaller files ...

It’s always great to have command line parameters that can give us a lot of great features like silent installation, etc. In this article, I will list out some command line parameters that would help ...

Welcome to another exciting edition of Linux.Ars! Some of you may remember a previous Linux.Ars which featured a Ruby/Pcap example of how to monitor network traffic. Today, Martin Colello provides us ...

Understanding your disk usage is an important thing to maintain the sanity of your Windows PCs. If you act without this insight, you may ultimately slow down your computer and make things puzzling ...

When you open a program on your computer by double-clicking its icon, you are activating that program's .exe file and, thus, launching the program. When you launch PowerPoint, for example, you're ...

In the world of IDE-based development, programmers can easily become detached from JDK and the underlying technology that makes their applications work. Here is a list of the five most useful Java ...

The title says it all (well mostly all). I am using VS 2008 (for C++ development) and I would like to be able to add command line arguments in a little textbox next to the green "run/debug" button. Is ...

I recently created a video demonstration of how to do some work at the command line, but as I tried to record my video, I kept running into problems. I'm just not the kind of person who can type ...