Another very useful way to get your public IP address from the Internet with the command line.

This useful one-liner will get your IP address from the command line very easily. This uses Google services and works very well. 4.4 Tue Jun 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com | sed -e ‘s/^"//’ -e ‘s/"$//’ 209.134.104.2004.4 Tue Jun 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com | sed -e … Read more

Another way to get information about your network interfaces on Linux.

There are many ways to get networking information on your Linux computer. This is how to return the active network interface(s) on your Linux system. 4.4 Mon Jun 22 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ip addr | awk '/state UP/ {print $2}' | sed 's/.$//' enp0s25 Combining this command with another using backticks, it is possible to … Read more

How to use the ip command to bring down an interface on RHEL.

The ip command is a useful alternative to the ifconfig command and allows the user to manage network interfaces. This is a good way to use the command line to bring network interfaces up or down. In this example I am bringing the network interface down. [root@localhost jason]# ip link set eno16777736 down [root@localhost jason]# … Read more

Adding an IP address to the management interface for a Cisco switch.

Adding an IP address to the management interface of a Cisco switch allows connection over an Ethernet connection to manage the switch configuration. Firstly, switch to privileged exec mode. tyrion>en tyrion#tyrion>en tyrion# Then enter the configure terminal command to configure terminal settings. tyrion#configure terminaltyrion#configure terminal Now we are configuring settings for vlan 99. tyrion(config)#interface vlan … Read more

How the design of the user interface has changed from the olden days of the computer.

The computer user interface has come a long way since the early days of the computer. This has not always been for the best. The iMac screen below shows a good example of UI design. This is a very usable and fast interface. The Finder allows you to find applications easily and also navigate the … Read more

New Ubuntu `phone distribution released. The future of the operating system is mobile.

The Ubuntu phone distribution is soon to be released to the public; this is a Linux distribution that can scale from a phone to a desktop computer with the one desktop interface. This will be a whole new paradigm of operating systems; designed for the desktop and also capable of installation onto a mobile device … Read more

Computer interface used in the Avengers movie and thoughts on the touch interface.

http://cargocollective.com/jayse/Avengers. Some information here about the user interfaces used in the Avengers movie. These touch screen interfaces were used a lot in the movie. The touch screen computer model is all the rage at the moment even if it is not that useful when using a computer for a long period. Especially when using a … Read more

BASH Shell is better than Powershell and discussion of the Linux desktop versus Windows.

The Powershell for Windows has many useful features for controlling your Windows computer; with many cmdlets and scripting ability; but the BASH shell for Linux is already an established shell that is far more powerful and useful. The downside to the Powershell is that it does not seem to have an implementation of grep. Without … Read more

The Graphical User Interface has come a long way since Windows ’95.

The Windows '95 desktop. Look at those icons...

The graphical user interfaces that we all enjoy have come a long way since the existence of the Windows ’95 operating system pictured on this page. Computing in those days was an exercise in frustration trying to get the various drivers installed and configured and adjusting the darned IRQs to Getting hardware to cooperate. Nowadays … Read more

New Windows 8 interface and getting the start menu back.

This is what the new copy dialog looks like on Windows 8. The actual process of copying this amount of data over a USB 3.0 connection was actually very fast, the previous versions of Windows were slower at copying data, but now it is getting faster. And I was copying from a 8 GiB USB … Read more