More evil scripts for Arma 3 trolling.

This script will spawn a cloud of mines around the player, this is a lot of fun to deal with. _source = eyepos player; _distance = 35;   for "_i" from 1 to 1000 do { _veh = createVehicle ["APERSMineDispenser_Mine_Ammo_Scripted", _source, [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"]; _pos = _source vectorAdd (vectorNormalized [(random 2)-1,(random 2)-1,(random 2)-1] vectorMultiply _distance); … Read more

Some more very useful Arma 3 scripting commands.

There are many very useful scripting commands for Arma 3 that are less known. The one below will return the number of days the player has played Arma 3 in total. _daysplayed = getStatValue "GamePlayedDays";_daysplayed = getStatValue "GamePlayedDays"; Use this code to determine if a player has finished the Bootcamp campaign before jumping into multiplayer. … Read more

Another example of a command that you should never run on Linux.

An obfuscated command like this is an example of one that you should never run. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ echo "ZWNobyBIYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFodG91Y2ggLS1mdWNreW91ISA+PiAtZnVja3UhCg==" | base64 -d | sh -s┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ echo "ZWNobyBIYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFoYWhhaGFodG91Y2ggLS1mdWNreW91ISA+PiAtZnVja3UhCg==" | base64 -d | sh -s This is the actual command it will run, this creates a file named “-fucku!”. But this can … Read more

How to install the Midnight Commander file manager on Ubuntu 14.04.

Install and use Midnight Commander on Linux easily on Ubuntu. This is a most important utility The Midnight Commander is a very useful file manager application for Linux that has a text editor as well as many other useful features for managing your files. To install this on Ubuntu; type this command. homer@lollinux-machina:~$ sudo apt-get … Read more

Interesting and useful commands available using the BASH shell on Linux.

This is an interesting command to view your command history when you are using Bash. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ hash hits command 1 /usr/bin/gethostip 1 /usr/bin/sudo┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ hash hits command 1 /usr/bin/gethostip 1 /usr/bin/sudo This command is a Bash shell built-in command. If you are using the tcsh or zsh shells; this command … Read more

Some even more useful Linux commands and tricks for the Linux command-line user.

Some interesting and useful Linux shell commands Linux has some very useful and interesting commands available to the Linux desktop user to find out information about your computer system. Some of these hearken back to the days of the old Linux terminals; when you accessed your computer from a dumb terminal instead of a graphical … Read more

Interesting Linux commands to show off to your friends. These are quite cool indeed.

The toilet command prints out large text banners like the Figlet command. Here is an example. The banner is printed in colour. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ toilet –metal "Hello World."   m m ""# ""# m m ""# # # # mmm # # mmm # # # mmm m mm # mmm# #mmmm# #" … Read more

Common errors and troubleshooting commands for Linux.

Some useful Linux tips and troubleshooting commands Some useful Linux tips and troubleshooting commandsHow to install the restricted codecs in UbuntuHow to boot an Ubuntu live ISO from the GRUB bootloaderHow to re-install the GRUB bootloader using a live Linux CDHow to find out the domain name that goes with an IP addressHow to check … Read more

Very useful Linux tips and tricks.

This command will capture a screenshot of the desktop and save it to the home directory. jason@neo:~$ import -window root "$HOME/$(date ‘+%y%m%d_%T’).png"jason@neo:~$ import -window root "$HOME/$(date ‘+%y%m%d_%T’).png" This is how to do this with the scrot utility. jason@neo:~$ scrot Desktop-%H:%M:%S-%d-%m.jpgjason@neo:~$ scrot Desktop-%H:%M:%S-%d-%m.jpg Characters preceded by a ‘%’ are interpreted by strftime(2). See man strftime for … Read more

Some more very useful Linux tips for scripting fans.

How to get the total size of a folder using Linux scripting. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ du -ack -BM | sort -nr | head -n 1 | awk ‘{print $1}’ 30255M┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ du -ack -BM | sort -nr | head -n 1 | awk ‘{print $1}’ 30255M This shows the total size of … Read more