You can make your life a little easier and more productive by adding some Unix power to your Windows system.

Are you someone who never met a Unix command you didn't like? OK, maybe not. But are there commands you just can't imagine living without? Let's look at some that have made a big difference on my ...

Last week’s column introduced NTP, the Network Time Protocol and the concept of highly accurate timekeeping. While numerous commands exist to help system administrators maintain fairly accurate ...

Get started with Bash, Unix pipes, directory navigation, sudo, Nano, and other command-line essentials ...

(You need to type sudo to claim the administrative privileges required for these commands.) Want to see what network services are available on the remote Mac? Type networksetup ...

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Other useful commands to run in a DOS command window are “at” which reports any at jobs and schtasks (Windows XP, Vista). Windows at jobs are similar to at jobs on Unix systems.

Restarting the network interface using command lines in Linux is a straight-forward procedure. While the GUI (Graphical User Interface) for Linus network configuration is more graphical and visually ...

A long time ago, when people dialed (as in telephones) into Unix machines in some closet or college campus, they used a command called “w” to see who was also on the machine. You can use this ...

Is there a command in Unix, but in OS X in particular, which will display the IPs of all the machines in a LAN? And if so, is there a GUI version of said program? If such program exists, what ...