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The best systems administrators are set apart by their efficiency. And if an efficient systems administrator can do a task in 10 minutes that would take another mortal two hours to complete, then the efficient systems administrator should be rewarded (paid more) because the company is saving time, and time is money, right?

Learning this tricks will improve your efficiency as a Linux Admin, these are simple tricks that sometimes we ignore.

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Firefox 3 has been out for two weeks now, so get with the program: It’s time to hack it. The newest version of Mozilla’s browser has plenty of new features, including the site identification button, the Bookmarks Library and what has become known as the “Awesome Bar” — and I’ll show you how to hack them all.

You can also force the browser to use Gmail for mailto: links, discover a hidden “Easter egg” and more. So fire up your browser and get ready to teach it some new tricks.

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To many people over the age of 30, text messaging can seem like one of those strange, complicated behaviors only teenagers understand. In reality, it’s one more great tool in your productivity arsenal, right up there with e-mail and instant messaging.

In function, texting treads a fine line between those two communication capabilities, essentially serving as a basic form of e-mail for even the simplest of today’s cell phones. Text messaging relies on a decades-old technology called SMS–Short Message Service–that’s used to relay brief messages (usually no more than 160 characters, equivalent to a couple of average-length sentences).

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What good is a browser unless you can tweak it, hack it and bend it to your will? No good at all. The more you can hack it, the better it is.

And that means that Firefox must be a great browser. It’s infinitely customizable, via editing a text file called userChrome.css, making changes via a command called about:config, and using free add-ons to extend the features of the browser.

In this article, with those techniques and others, I’ll show you 15 great Firefox tricks, including how to build your own Firefox search engine, how to speed up your browsing, how to hack the interface and plenty more. So launch your favorite browser, and get ready for some great tricks.

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