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Miscellaneous instruction guides for short Linux administration tasks that don't fit into topics elsewhere. There are a few links to other sites where I found an article that was especially clear, insightful, or innovative on a topic.

Administration	Automatically clean old temporary files Preventing accidental Ctrl+Alt+Del reboots Remote TAR Backups Init Fixes
BASH	Shell One-Liners, Scripts, and Tips Handy BASH function library Make a colour BASH prompt BASH History and other helpful settings BASH math and formatting Testing if a script is interactive Floating point math and passing parameters to functions (Linux Journal)
Disks and Filesystems	Partitioning
KDE	Keeping KDE 3.5 KDE 3.5 Troubleshooting
LVM	Creating a new logical volume Increasing the size of a logical volume Placing Root on LVM (gentoo-wiki.info)
Laptops and Desktops	Linux on Laptops Booting from USB Netflix and Pureflix in Linux Fix BibleTime text display in Ubuntu Upgrade Pear8 Ubuntu 13.04 to 14.04 Trinity Desktop in Gentoo
MySQL and MariaDB	MariaDB Troubleshooting Putting the Host Name in the MySQL/MariaDB prompt
Performance	Topics relating to overall non-application-specific performance
RAID	Linux software RAID
RPM	Making an RPM that contains only text files
Security	Encrypt/Decrypt a file
Subversion	Moving a Subversion repository
Video	Determining supported Framebuffer video modes
VIM	VIM Notes

Reference Guides

Using ANSI/VT100 Terminal Control Escape Sequences in BASH or Perl scripts

Advaned BASH Scripting Guide (Linux Doc Project)

Linux Mini How-Tos

Linux Mini How-Tos

Reference Guides