How often have you wanted to take a quick glance of the calendar in your desktop? You may need to click a couple of dozen of times on your desktop if the period your are interested in is more than a decade back.

Many coders do not think that creating temporary files in a secure way is important, especially in shell scripts. It’s just a temporary file, they might say. But a simple symbolic link exploit could make the whole system unusable.

When the disk partition is filling up quickly, it’s quite an hassle for the system administrator to find out the location of the files taking up the most space.

On a typical Fedora installation, you are asked for a root password and you will given an option to create accounts for normal users.

On the other hand, Ubuntu only allows account creation for normal users, root logins are disabled by default.