Get hardware information from your desktop PC on a website easily.

This is very easy to do. Get comprehensive hardware information about your desktop computer with a simple script. This is available to install for newer Ubuntu releases, but for those of us using an LTS release, the script may be downloaded from this page. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hw-probe/1.5-1. Unpack the tarball and then run the script to generate … Read more

Get information about your Macintosh machine using the command line.

Get the current status of your battery with this command. deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo systemstats | grep "Battery Power" Battery Power: -8095 mW (-15.5 %/hr) Battery Power: -8034 mW (-15.6 %/hr) Battery Power: -6774 mW (-13.3 %/hr) Battery Power: -8080 mW (-15.3 %/hr) Battery Power: -7866 mW (-15.3 %/hr)deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo systemstats | grep "Battery Power" … Read more

My system information program I coded for Linux a while ago. This works very well.

https://github.com/john302/sysinfo. This is my system information program I coded for Linux. This gives a bit of information about your Linux system. Just check out the source and type make to compile. Here is some sample output. 13:21:02 ~/Downloads/sysinfo.kdevelop-1.0 homer@neo $ ./sysinfo 1 –System name – Linux –Nodename – neo.deusexmachina –Release – 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 –Version – #1 … Read more

Get nice system information on Macintosh OS with the command line.

Get information about apps installed on your Macintosh PC with the lsappinfo command. Use grep as shown below to find out information about a certain app, i.e Firefox in this case. deusexmachina:~ jason$ lsappinfo | grep Firefox 24) "Firefox" ASN:0x0-0x2a02a: bundle path="/Applications/Firefox.app" executable path="/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox" 26) "FirefoxCP WebExtensions" ASN:0x0-0x2c02c: bundle path="/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app" executable path="/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container" parentASN="Firefox" ASN:0x0-0x2a02a: (inferred) … Read more

Print useful Ubuntu news in your terminal easily.

This useful news is printed when a user opens the TTY console on Ubuntu and logs in. The news is from /var/cache/motd-news. But if a user puts this command in their .bashrc, the news will appear. cat /var/cache/motd-newscat /var/cache/motd-news The /var/run/motd.dynamic file contains the rest of the information printed to the TTY screen upon login. … Read more

Best way to upgrade your Ubuntu distro to a new version.

I recently had to upgrade an Ubuntu 14.04 system to the latest release. I ran the command below and my system was upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. sudo do-release-upgradesudo do-release-upgrade This was run over SSH, but I did not lose my connection, and it was quite a painless experience. This is probably better than running … Read more

What is a database management system?

A Database Management System is a system that allows multiple users to access, create and modify data entries in a database. The program is a multiuser application that will allow multiple users to access and change records easily, whilst maintaining the integrity of the data and also ensuring the security of the Database, with user … Read more

Getting the clock speed of your machine using the dmidecode command.

Getting the clock speed of your machine using the dmidecode command for Linux This command-line example shows that we are using the dmidecode command to get the current clock speed for our machine. This also shows some creative use of the sed command to parse the output and change the “Current Speed” text string to … Read more

The NASA Voyager probe is the furthest man made object from the Earth at the moment.

The NASA Voyager probe that is now traveling out of the Solar System has its own Twitter page! See it here: NASA Voyager. This probe has withstood amazing levels of radiation and is still transmitting precious information back to NASA. On the sixth of September the 35th anniversary of the launching of the Voyager probe … Read more

Monitorix, a nice monitoring tool for Linux systems.

To install this very useful Linux monitoring tool on your Linux system, firstly add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.lst file. deb http://apt.izzysoft.de/ubuntu generic universedeb http://apt.izzysoft.de/ubuntu generic universe Then download the required GPG key for the apt packages. wget http://apt.izzysoft.de/izzysoft.ascwget http://apt.izzysoft.de/izzysoft.asc And then add this GPG key to apt. jason$ sudo apt-key add izzysoft.asc OKjason$ sudo … Read more

How to get system information in Windows with CMD.

The systeminfo command for Windows allows a user to get comprehensive system information. The default usage outputs the most system information in one go. C:\Users\Corporal Kerry>systeminfo | clipC:\Users\Corporal Kerry>systeminfo | clip This command will output the system information in CSV format. C:\Users\Corporal Kerry>systeminfo /FO CSVC:\Users\Corporal Kerry>systeminfo /FO CSV Use the /S parameter to specify a … Read more