Find more statistics at Statista This is the average of Internet speeds for the first quarter of 2017. Australia is lagging far behind other countries such as Asia. This is not good in 2017. Especially when the uptake of streaming services such as Netflix is rising. We need a faster Internet connection to keep up … Read more
Record your Linux desktop to a video file and showcase it on Youtube To get a simple desktop recording of your Linux desktop for teaching purposes or any other use, just follow this guide. This command below. will record a high-quality video file of your Linux desktop to an MKV file. It will automatically get … Read more
The IP address you supply the ping command with can have a leading zero or multiple leading zeros and they will be ignored by the ping command. This is an example. jason@jason-desktop:~$ ping 192.168.00001.00002 PING 192.168.00001.00002 (192.168.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.012 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 … Read more
To change the font in the Virtual Terminal in Debian or Ubuntu/Linux Mint, run this command. sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setupsudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup This lets you select the various character sets and fonts to customize your virtual terminal. jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup [sudo] password for jason: Your console font configuration will be updated the next time your … Read more
This bash alias will take a directory name or path as an argument. alias goto=’cd $1’alias goto=’cd $1′ This is an example of how this alias works. jason@jason-desktop:~$ goto /usr/share jason@jason-desktop:/usr/share$jason@jason-desktop:~$ goto /usr/share jason@jason-desktop:/usr/share$ This is a very neat bash trick. This might not work if the directory name uses spaces though. Generate a very … Read more
This is a very good BIOS simulator page with various BIOS simulators for various Lenovo products. https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/index.html. There are Laptops and Desktops in this list. Just hover over the pale square in the top left to access the menu. You could follow along with the person seeking help and be on the same screen they … Read more
To find out what repository a package came from, use the dpkg -s command. jason@jason-desktop:~$ dpkg -s zdoom Package: zdoom Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 9330 Maintainer: DRD Team <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.8.1 Depends: libc6, libstdc++6, zlib1g, bzip2, libgtk2.0-0 Recommends: timidity, libfluidsynth1 Description: Advanced Doom source port.jason@jason-desktop:~$ dpkg -s zdoom … Read more
Playing Russian Overkill is a lot of fun, and this can be done on Linux as well as Windows. We need to add another repository to Ubuntu to manage this. Add the required package repository. I am assuming you already have a copy of classic Doom and the Russian Overkill mod. sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb http://debian.drdteam.org/ … Read more
The best Android apps for 2017 There are some awesome Android apps available now. Here is a selection of the few that I have found useful. Barcode scanner This app can scan barcodes on products and also allow the user to lookup the product online. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.android&hl=en. Works extremely well. It can also scan QR codes … Read more
The Windows in an Xorg session may easily be manipulated with this simple utility. Xdotool. This is a terminal utility to manage Xorg windows. Firstly, install this simple utility. jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt install xdotooljason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt install xdotool Then we can resize a MATE Terminal window. xdotool search –onlyvisible –classname "gnome-terminal" windowsize %@ 500xdotool search … Read more
To make a PDF file of a manual page on Linux, this involves a very simple command. Make a Postscript file from a manual page on Linux. jason@jason-desktop:~$ man -t 3 printf > printf.psjason@jason-desktop:~$ man -t 3 printf > printf.ps Then convert the Postscript file to a PDF easily. jason@jason-desktop:~$ ps2pdf printf.psjason@jason-desktop:~$ ps2pdf printf.ps This … Read more
Getting some hardware working on Windows 8.1 is a very hard task when you have lost the box and the CD. Whereas an installation of Ubuntu will pick it up straight away and it works perfectly. That is a fact these days. That is why Linux is preferable over Windows. Hardware support is very easy … Read more
The new Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) distribution has been released. This comes with a Gnome desktop instead of the Unity environment. The desktop environment in this looks just like Unity though. Where is the benefit of using a Gnome desktop if it looks exactly like Unity anyway? This is how I set up Ubuntu 17.10 … Read more
This command will set all new files in the directory to all default to the permissions set to the parent directory. This is very useful when creating a new directory and you wish to ensure that the files therein have correct permissions. jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo setfacl -R -d -m o::rwx Documents/ [sudo] password for jason:jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo … Read more
There is still a very old Linux bug that has still not been fixed. Microsoft has a dominating market share. This is an Ubuntu bug reported by Mark Shuttleworth in 2004 and has still not been fixed. Ubuntu is getting better though. Ubuntu 17.10 will have Wayland and Gnome 3.26 by default and have better … Read more