Month: April 2014

How using ssh is a better way to access your remote machine. How to do this over port 443.

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Using the ssh command to connect to a remote computer is a very good way to access your home machine when you are at college or at work. But sometimes you are behind an academic proxy and this blocks your ssh access. I had that problem and I used putty to connect to my home … Read more

Using tcpdump to capture packets with a wireless connected computer.

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Use this command to capture packets with the tcpdump command. This will output to STDOUT, but you may use redirection to divert it to a text file. [root@deusexmachina homer]# tcpdump -i wlp2s0[root@deusexmachina homer]# tcpdump -i wlp2s0 This is the output that you get when you are capturing packets. This is on my home network, so … Read more

Some useful FizzBuzz examples for budding programmers.

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Here are some useful FizzBuzz programming examples in various programming languages. These might prove useful as code samples that could be expanded into a larger project or just for interests sake. Very useful if you wish to learn how to program, taking these programs apart and modifying them would be a lot of fun. In … Read more

How to add a custom menu to Fluxbox to list your favorite applications.

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Adding a custom menu to Fluxbox is very easy, this is how. The default ~/.fluxbox/fluxbox-menu file looks like this, it reads the /etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu file to create the root menu for Fluxbox. [begin] (fluxbox)   [include] (/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu) [end][begin] (fluxbox) [include] (/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu) [end] But if you add a simple submenu to it like this, then you get … Read more

More useful shell tricks for bash. These are very useful tricks for any Linux user.

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This sed trick will filter out the unwanted characters and leave only the letters ‘A’. homer@deusexmachina ~ $ echo "###AAA" | sed ‘s/###//gi’ AAAhomer@deusexmachina ~ $ echo "###AAA" | sed ‘s/###//gi’ AAA This is how to re-bind the annoying CAPS-Lock key to Esc. This can give that key a new use. xmodmap -e ‘clear Lock’ … Read more

How to encode a video to webm format and use it as a GIF replacement.

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This is how to encode a video to webm format without sound to create a GIF replacement. The ffmpeg utility allows encoding a video in different formats. This is the perfect command for encoding a good quality webm video. ffmpeg -i gzdoom_2012_11_04_20_34_10_391.avi -ss 00:01:00.000 -to 00:01:20.000 \ -codec:v libvpx -quality good -cpu-used 0 -b:v 500k … Read more

Windows themes for xubuntu 13.10.

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Nice Xfce4 themes for Xubuntu 13.10. Lubuntu XP theme: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Lubuntu+XP+three+flavors?content=162880. A Windows XP styled theme for Lubuntu. Windows 8 mouse cursor theme: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Win8E?content=160758. Vista styled Xfce4 theme: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Vista+Royale?content=59665. Matthew Farrell’s Theme 1.0: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Matthew+Farrell%27s+Theme?content=99669. A nice theme that may be used with Xfce4 that looks like Matthew Farrel`s theme from Die Hard 4.0. Wallpapers. Beautiful Amanita … Read more

Yet another way to get the IP address of a host and print it. And other useful networking commands.

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This is a good way to get the IP address of a host and print it to the terminal. homer@deusexmachina ~ $ host yahoo.com | awk ‘/ has address / { print $4 }’ | cut -d " " -f14- 98.138.253.109homer@deusexmachina ~ $ host yahoo.com | awk ‘/ has address / { print $4 }’ … Read more

Windows XP support has ended. This is time to update to a better operating system.

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Support for Windows XP has ended, this means that there will be no further updates for Windows XP on the desktop. This is a good time to upgrade either to Windows 7, which is supported until 2020; or to use Linux Mint and enjoy a faster and more reliable desktop operating system. I am using … Read more

Some more useful UNIX commands available for the Mac.

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There are a few very useful UNIX commands available on the Apple Macintosh. Mountain Lion is what I am using in Virtualbox and I am having a look at some very useful shell commands and tips. The iostat command. This shows statistics of disk Input/Output. Homers-iMac:Documents homer$ iostat disk0 disk1 cpu load average KB/t tps … Read more

Goat Simulator coming to Linux and Macintosh soon! The mayhem will never stop!

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The massively popular game Goat Simulator will be coming to Linux and Macintosh in a indeterminate time. This means that Linux users could enjoy this awesome sandbox game. Goat Simulator is a game where you play as an invincible Goat and you cause all kinds of mayhem in a suburban area. Powered by the Unreal … Read more

A recording of my Linux Mint 16 MATE desktop.

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How I recorded this video. avconv -f x11grab -r 60 -s 1920×1080 -i :0.0 -vcodec libvpx -b:v 1M output.webmavconv -f x11grab -r 60 -s 1920×1080 -i :0.0 -vcodec libvpx -b:v 1M output.webm Use this command to install avconv. sudo apt-get install libav-toolssudo apt-get install libav-tools This is a very good way to show off your … Read more