By default when you emerge a long list of packages in Gentoo you have to download each package completely before the build process can begin. This can be a large bottleneck, especially if your internet connection is not very fast.
Luckily Portage has a great solution.
Go to the file /etc/make.conf and add “parallel-fetch” to the [...]

For whatever reason lets assume you find yourself on a Windows machine and you need to obtain the MAC address of its network adapter. Do the following.
Go to Start -> Run which will bring up a text box. In this box type cmd. A command prompt will appear.
Type this is the terminal.

ipconfig [...]

There are many ways to take screenshot in Linux. If you have Gnome or KDE you can simply press your ‘print screen’ button and you are done.
If you don’t run either one of these desktops you can always use the screenshot functionality built into GNU Image Manipulation Program aka GIMP. Open up GIMP and [...]

scp allows you to securely copy files locally or remotely across a network. It uses SSH for data transfer and uses the same authentication. If you do not have public key authentication enabled you will be prompted for a password.
This basic format for scp is this.

scp [options] [[user@]src_host1:]file1 [[user@]dest_host2:]file2

Assuming the remotehost has a username which [...]

If you wish to restrict all or part of your website from being indexed by various search engine robots you can use a robots.txt file.
For it to work properly it should be a simple ASCII text file named exactly “robots.txt” and it should be placed in the domain root directory. The well behaved robot [...]

The top command is a great way to keep track of processes executing on a system in real-time.
Launch top by entering this on the command line.

$ top

Here is an example of what you will see.

top – 09:13:11 up 1:29, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.16, 0.10
Tasks: 85 total, 1 [...]

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