ps aux
When you run ps you will only get the first 40 or so characters displayed. In order to view the entire string, use ...
ps auxgww

If you're a Linux expert, Fedora is for you. If you just want a good, general-purpose desktop for home or work, then openSUSE is your best pick. And if you're new to Linux, and your computer gets along well with Ubuntu, Ubuntu is still a good choice.
Knoppix if you want to use Linux off a live CD and puppy linux is for everyone!!

You can enter the "kill" command in a terminal if a process hangs.
kill ID
kill -9 ID
pkill firefox

You can switch to a virtual terminal using Ctrl + Alt + F1 if the user interface does not allow you to start the terminal.
This should hopefully restore some sanity to your computer and you can switch back to the GUI using Ctrl + Alt + F7

behave mswin - Copy and Paste with Ctrl+C CtrlV
set laststatus=2 - grey status bar at the bottom
syntax on - syntax highlighting
set autoindent - auto indenting
set number - line numbers
set showcmd - show command in status line
set showmatch - show matching brackets
set ignorecase - do case insensitive matching
set hlsearch - highlight what you search for

HashKnownHosts no
Add the above line in your ssh_config file that can be found here....
/etc/ssh/ssh_config

The safe way to change IFS in a 'while read' loop is:

while IFS=\| read a b c
do
: whatever
done

output redirection using n> usually overwrites existing files. You can control this with the noclobber option of the set builtin. If it has been set, you can override it using n>|

$ set -o noclobber
$ ls x* z* >stdout.txt 2>stderr.txt
-bash: stdout.txt: cannot overwrite existing file
$ ls x* z* >|stdout.txt 2>|stderr.txt
$ set +o noclobber

The following command can be used to send messages to remote servers.

ssh -X root@123.123.123.123 'DISPLAY=:0 notify-send "TEST MESSAGE."'

The command that actually sends the message is...
notify-send "hi vandana"

wget is really a very powerful utility. Here is an example.

wget -mk http://oksoft.antville.org

I can download all the pages linked from my blog. And it is so easy!

-m (--mirror) Turn on options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory list‐ings. It is currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf --no-remove-listing.

-k (--convert-links) After the download is complete, convert the links in the document to make them suitable for local viewing.

This simple Firefox tool lets you create custom Firefox installers which you can use to deploy Firefox’s preconfigured settings and add-ons.

http://www.msfn.org/board/silence-foxes-t43168.html