The Raspberry Pi is a great device with many possibilities and one such great use is as a NAS server for your LAN. The Raspberry Pi by itself is limited by the space it can offer so you will need … Continue reading →

We recently published article about how to determine your computer’s architecture via GUI. Today am going to show how to do the same thing from the command-line with more advanced options in viewing the computer hardware properties as well. Checking … Continue reading →

rsnapshot is a filsystem snapshot utility written in Perl. It is a remote backup utility used to take single or multiple backup of filesystems from local or remote systems using rsync. In this tutorial, my scenario will be as follows: … Continue reading →

A dictionary is a container that stores Python objects and each item  of the dictionary consist of a key and value. Python dictionaries are also known as associative arrays or hash tables. Curly brackets distinguish a dictionary from other objects. … Continue reading →

What are lists in Python? Lists are one of the six built-in types of sequences in Python programming language. A sequence is the most basic data structure in Python programming language and each element of a sequence has its own … Continue reading →

Argument handling gives user the chance to interact with the script and use it for different tasks. Two ways to do this in Python are with ARGV and optparse. The optparse module offers more options for argument handling, but we … Continue reading →

There are many ways to play media files from the command-line. In fact, in recent weeks past, here at Unixmen we’ve shown you how do it with a couple of different methods.

You know you get serious with Python programming language when you start to learn about exception handling. But why do we need exception handling? The best way to understand exception handling in Python and why do we need it is … Continue reading →

Subversion is a free and open-source version control system (VCS). It manages files and directories, and the changes made to them over time. This allows you to recover older versions of your data or examine the history of how your … Continue reading →

DriveConverter is fast and powerful file online converter for Google Drive. It can convert your documents, images and audios that you saved in Google Drive.