SSL packets sent to and fro from your machine can contain a lot of useful information. I am going to show how to see what websites are visited on a network. Firstly, load Wireshark and then listen to traffic on your machine. Then visit a few different websites with Firefox or Chrome. Use this filter … Read more
SSH is a great way to connect to a remote Linux server over a network. This is how to use SSH easily yourself. Firstly, install SSH on the remote machine to allow remote connections if it is a server you are setting up. sudo apt install sshsudo apt install ssh Then run this command on … Read more
Microsoft corporation is developing a custom Linux kernel, that is intended to power their Azure Sphere security framework. This is a great step for the software giant, that has formerly opposed free software and even Google. Now they are embracing Github and Linux. This is only a kernel; not an entire operating system. A kernel … Read more
To boot Linux with the text scrolling past, and no bootsplash, edit the /etc/default/grub file and change the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT value to “text”. # If you change this file, run ‘update-grub’ afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. # For full documentation of the options in this file, see: # info -f grub -n ‘Simple configuration’ GRUB_DEFAULT=0 … Read more
There are a few Windows themes out there, I just wanted to show how to make the MATE desktop look like Windows 8.1. This is very easy, just download these theme files. Windows 8 mouse cursor theme: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Win8E?content=160758. Put the contents into the ~/.icons directory. Like this. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/.icons$ ls -hula total 24K drwxrwxr-x 6 jason … Read more
There are some very useful tricks that can be used to get information about packages installed on a Debian or Ubuntu machine. Here are just a few. Get a graphical view of the actual dependencies of a package such as Firefox. Firstly, install the graphviz package. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt install graphvizjason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt install graphviz … Read more
The original file manager that was featured in Windows NT 4.0 is now available for a modern 64-bit operating system. This is a Visual Studio solution and will build on a modern Windows operating system. Microsoft are gradually open-sourcing old parts of Windows. This is a good thing I think. This would be very interesting … Read more
Installing wallpapers into the backgrounds folder in Enlightenment E17. Installing wallpapers with the E17 window manager is very easy, mostly like the older Enlightenment E16 window manager. You may either copy the wallpapers into the ~/.e/e/backgrounds/ folder or import them with the backgrounds settings dialog. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/.e/e/backgrounds$ ls -hula total 43M drwxr-xr-x 2 jason jason 4.0K … Read more
The E17 desktop is the best alternative to the bloated MATE and Gnome desktop environments. These are good, but use a lot of resources. A good alternative is to use E17. This is light and has a lot of very good effects. Install it on Ubuntu 17 easily. sudo apt install e17-data e17sudo apt install … Read more
Running Windows in a qemu virtual machine is very easy. Install all required qemu packages. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-utils qemujason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-utils qemu Now we can create a virtual machine disk image to install our virtual machine onto. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ qemu-img create -f raw win7.img 30Gjason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ qemu-img create -f raw win7.img … Read more