I am running Linux at the moment with a Geforce 740 and I have not installed the proprietary drivers at all. I am using the Nouveau drivers and my system is performing very quickly indeed. Previously, I had a Radeon HD6670 installed and the open-source drivers were used. And in that case, the system was … Read more
This useful utility: http://mridgers.github.io/clink/. Will allow persistent history and line editing in the Windows 10 CMD window. This makes the CMD session much more enjoyable to use. Press Alt-H in the CMD window to get help that shows the keyboard shortcuts for this addon. Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10130] (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. … Read more
The runas command in Windows 7 8 and now Windows 10 allows the unprivileged user to execute a command as a superuser. This is rather like the sudo command for Linux and UNIX. In the example below, I am executing a command on the computer BLUFOR as the user Dobbo. I am running notepad as … Read more
This command will return only the IP address of the host. ubuntu ~ $ hostname -i 172.31.20.16ubuntu ~ $ hostname -i 172.31.20.16 Querying for all local IP addresses on the host. ubuntu ~ $ hostname -I 172.31.20.16 10.8.0.1ubuntu ~ $ hostname -I 172.31.20.16 10.8.0.1 This simple script will ping Google and will check the return … Read more
The aptitude command for Ubuntu may be used to search for packages. This makes it easy to find the appropriate package you are searching for. In this example, I am searching for the openvpn packages. ubuntu ~ $ sudo aptitude search openvpn p gadmin-openvpn-client – GTK+ configuration tool for openvpn (client) p gadmin-openvpn-client-dbg – GTK+ … Read more
I have recently downloaded an executable, this is a piece of Linux malware. I run a query with strings on this file and I find out that this file makes changes to various utility commands on a Linux system such as netstat, ps, top and /bin/sh. This would be all the hallmarks of a rootkit … Read more
This simple one liner will print the battery status of your laptop battery in percent. This shows that I have 48% battery charge remaining. PS C:\> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Battery).estimatedchargeremaining 48PS C:\> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Battery).estimatedchargeremaining 48 Run it like this to get all of the information about your laptop battery. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Battery) … Read more
The show interface brief command, issued at the elevated command prompt will show the status of all ports on the switch/router and also show your vlan interfaces you have created. tyrion#show ip interface brief Interface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol Vlan1 unassigned YES NVRAM up down Vlan2 172.18.31.128 YES NVRAM up up GigabitEthernet0/1 unassigned YES … Read more