The virtual console on a Linux box is a good way to access the command line on a UNIX or Linux system. There are a few virtual consoles available on a machine. Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to access the virtual console. Hold the Alt key and use the arrow keys to switch between virtual consoles. There is … Read more
Hacking is something that a lot of us think in a negative way, but the truth of the matter is, there are a lot of positives that can come out of it as well. In this article, we’re going to take a look at 10 cool tricks that you can use if you’re thinking about … Read more
The console font in Ubuntu 15.04 can be quite garbled when a console application is loaded that requires ncurses characters to draw an interface. There as easy fix for this. Run this command in a virtual terminal or a terminal emulator window. sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setupsudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup Now choose UTF-8 from this list. On this … Read more
This image is a photograph of an ATM machine that has Windows 7 installed, this machine requires Windows 7 activation… This is an Ethernet connection that is over 231 meters long. Far too long for a standard Ethernet connection. The maximum range of a cable is 100 meters according to Cisco CCNA for 100Base-TX cable. … Read more
Firstly, install youtube-dl. jason@darkstar:~/Music$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dljason@darkstar:~/Music$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl Then run this command with the Youtube video URL. jason@darkstar:~/Music$ youtube-dl -f bestaudio -x –audio-format mp3 –prefer-ffmpeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWFm2LIYNjg [youtube] UWFm2LIYNjg: Downloading webpage [youtube] UWFm2LIYNjg: Extracting video information [youtube] UWFm2LIYNjg: Downloading DASH manifest [download] Destination: Dune (1983) OST – Dune Prophecy (Long Version)-UWFm2LIYNjg.m4a [download] … Read more
Hewlett Packard have released a new Star Wars themed laptop, just in time for Christmas. This laptop, starting at $699.99 is a bargain and would be the perfect present for any Star Wars fan. See all of the options and customize before purchasing on this page: http://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/Laptops/star-wars-special-edition#vao. Buy one today for the Star Wars fan … Read more
This useful command will display a count of all installed packages on your Debian Linux machine. jason@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-query -l | wc -l 2027jason@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-query -l | wc -l 2027 Grepping the output to find certain packages. jason@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-query -l | grep vim ii vim-common 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3 amd64 Vi IMproved – Common files ii vim-tiny 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3 amd64 … Read more
List all network interfaces on your Linux machine that are up. [jason@localhost ~]$ ip addr | grep UP 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 2: eno16777736: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP qlen 1000 3: virbr0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN[jason@localhost ~]$ ip addr | grep UP 1: lo: … Read more
Some very old computer advertisements and images. This is an advertisement against piracy. 50,000 dollar 5 megabyte hard disk drive being loaded onto a truck. Windows 3.1 disk space indicator. This was the very old days of computing. You can certainly tell that disk space was far more restricted than on modern computers. IBM 5100 … Read more
While running Linux, if you want to list the contents of a folder in a vertical list format, just use the ls command with these switches. jason@ubuntu:~$ ls -luh –color=yes total 48K drwxr-xr-x 2 jason jason 4.0K Dec 15 03:03 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 jason jason 4.0K Nov 29 17:00 Documents drwxr-xr-x 2 jason jason 4.0K … Read more
If you are using a remote server with SSH and you wish to get a large file off the Internet to the remote server easily, you may use the wget command to download it directly to the server instead of having to download it at home and then upload it again. That is silly. Use … Read more
There are three ways to try Linux, you can: 1) Install a Linux OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox/VMWare) for “safety purposes” 2) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a “full Linux experience”. 3) Go all the way and overwrite everything with Linux (not recommended) If you are … Read more
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Creating your own logo for your company which needs to make its debut on the internet is a challenge which can be met. When it responds positively to your mission, the rewards can be exponential in more ways than one. To get your creative juices flowing and to begin to answer your predictable question of … Read more
The logsave command will print the output of a command to a file. This will also add a timestamp to the logfile telling the system administrator when the command was run. logsave /var/log/partsize df –hlogsave /var/log/partsize df –h This is an example, the output of the command is also printed to STDOUT. jason@ubuntu:~$ logsave partsize … Read more
The weapon sway in Arma 3 is out of control right now. With the 1.54 Nexus update, the weapon sway is like a drunken Irishman. But you can remove this. player setCustomAimCoef 0.1; player addMPEventhandler ["MPRespawn", {player setCustomAimCoef 0.1}]; player setUnitRecoilCoefficient 0.1; player addEventHandler ["Respawn", {player setUnitRecoilCoefficient 0.1}]; player enablestamina false player addEventHandler … Read more