John Cartwright

Linux user that loves sharing all kinds of Linux information with the world. I love Linux and sharing information about how to use it and get the best out of your desktop is the best way to give back to the community.

Beautiful wallpapers for your Linux desktop.

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A gorgeous terraced rice paddy in China I think: https://4walled.cc/src/c0/c06806e6e7aa41e530ae8355aa2271fb.jpg Beautiful farm gate photograph: https://4walled.cc/show-584332. Curving road in morning mist: https://4walled.cc/show-111104. Dual monitor corn field photograph: https://4walled.cc/show-84524. Man using a tin for target practice on his farm: https://4walled.cc/show-579294. Oil refinery gas flare: https://4walled.cc/show-1286049. Arches national park Utah: https://4walled.cc/show-389564. More wallpaper posts. More awesome wallpapers for … Read more

Location of the filesystem that the Windows 10 bash shell uses.

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Location of the Windows 10 bash shell files This is the location of the actual files that are installed when you install the Windows 10 bash shell. This means that it is not really a ext4 filesystem, but emulating this when you load it up in a CMD window. %localappdata%\lxss\rootfs%localappdata%\lxss\rootfs The location of the actual … Read more

Copy a file from one UNIX/Linux machine to another using the sftp utility.

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Copying a file with sftp from one UNIX machine to another is very easy. The command below uses the SSH protocol and initiates a connection to the remote PC. ubuntu ~ $ sftp -P 443 [email protected] ~ $ sftp -P 443 [email protected] Press ENTER and type your password. The user will be presented with a … Read more

How to get just the IP address of your Linux machine using curl.

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To get just the IP address of your Internet facing Linux machine, use this command. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents/ipinfo/src$ curl icanhazip.comjason@jason-desktop:~/Documents/ipinfo/src$ curl icanhazip.com This will return just your IP address. This is another way to get this information. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ curl ipinfo.io/ipjason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ curl ipinfo.io/ip To get information about a DNS server, use the dig command. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents/ipinfo/src$ dig 8.8.8.8   … Read more

Get information about your network connection with netstat on Windows.

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Get network information on Windows with netstat Netstat on Windows can provide a lot of information about your network connection. This example shows netstat showing Ethernet statistics. c:\Windows\System>netstat -e Interface Statistics   Received Sent   Bytes 2307072092 27407417 Unicast packets 1757202 320154 Non-unicast packets 0 0 Discards 0 0 Errors 0 0 Unknown protocols 0c:\Windows\System>netstat … Read more

How to crack the cisco telnet password on a Cisco 2960 switch.

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Cracking the Cisco telnet password on a Cisco 2960 switch is very easy when you are using the hydra password cracking tool. I used this command to crack the telnet login. hydra -P password.lst 10.42.0.87 cisco This is the password cracking session that resulted in me cracking the telnet login. root@darknet:~# hydra -P password.lst 10.42.0.87 … Read more

Why is Microsoft attempting to force Windows 10 updates upon the users of Windows 7 and 8?

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Why is the giant Microsoft corporation attempting to force Windows 10 updates upon everyone? If it is to use Windows 10 to spy upon the users, then this does not make any sense. They could just include an update for Windows 7 or 8 that would include such telemetry software functionality. I guess they are … Read more

How to manipulate environment variables with the bash shell on Linux.

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Manipulating environment variables in the bash shell is very useful indeed, this shows a few examples. This uses the feature of the Linux shell called parameter expansion. This replaces the name of an environment variable with it`s contents when echoed to the shell. These few examples show how the content echoed to the terminal may … Read more

Google search terms to find interesting stuff on Google Drive.

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To find a lot of interesting stuff on Google Drive, Google Dorks can be of assistance. Various search terms can find interesting files and information that people have stored on their Google Drive. This is the search term: site:drive.google.com [your search term] -“Whoops!”. How to find new open directories: http://palined.com/search/ or http://www.filechef.com/, search for what … Read more

Ubuntu 16.04 sources.list file. Might be useful.

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This sources.list file might be useful for an Ubuntu desktop user who has overwritten their file and needs a new one. ## SOURCES LIST FOR UBUNTU 16.04 LTS XENIAL XERUS ## ALSO FOR XUBUNTU 16.04, LUBUNTU 16.04 ## AND KUBUNTU 16.04 ## From: http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject ## This list is for the Main server; you might want … Read more

Create aliases with the Linux command line to make commands easier to remember.

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Creating an alias for bash makes remembering a command easier. This is how longer commands may be simplified. Here is an example. [jason@darknet:~] alias lseasy=’ls -lAhF'[jason@darknet:~] alias lseasy=’ls -lAhF’ This is the output. [jason@darknet:~/Videos] lseasy total 4.8G -rw-r–r– 1 jason jason 18 Mar 24 13:34 authrootseq.txt -rw-r–r– 1 jason jason 23K Mar 24 13:55 heap2.htm … Read more

Windows 10 bash shell not very impressive at all.

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The new Windows 10 bash shell is not very impressive once you get it installed. I have tried it and I could not ping websites even though Microsoft Edge could access the Internet. It is possible to install packages if these lines are added to the /etc/hosts file. 91.189.91.14 archive.ubuntu.com 91.189.92.201 security.ubuntu.com91.189.91.14 archive.ubuntu.com 91.189.92.201 security.ubuntu.com … Read more

How to get weather information with curl on Linux.

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The curl command on Linux may be used to get weather information from the Internet. The curl wttr.in/”new york” command will retrieve weather information from wttr.in. [jason@darknet:~] curl wttr.in/"new york" Weather for City: New York, United States of America   \ / Clear .-. 6 – 8 °C ― ( ) ― ↓ 9 km/h … Read more

Windows 10 bash shell 10.0.14316 very good for getting system information.

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The new bash shell in Windows 10 build 10.0.14316 is the best addition to Windows 10 yet. Here I am getting information about the CPU. root@localhost:/mnt/c/Users/johnc# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 60 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz stepping : 3 microcode : … Read more

How to build a 4.6 kernel on Ubuntu 16.04.

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Firstly, download a kernel tarball from kernel.org. jason@jason-desktop:~$ wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/testing/linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz –2016-03-29 10:22:34– https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/testing/linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz Resolving cdn.kernel.org (cdn.kernel.org)… 103.245.222.69 Connecting to cdn.kernel.org (cdn.kernel.org)|103.245.222.69|:443… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK Length: 89423304 (85M) [application/x-xz] Saving to: ‘linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz’   linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz 100%[======================================================================>] 85.28M 1.29MB/s in 66s   2016-03-29 10:23:54 (1.28 MB/s) – ‘linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz’ saved [89423304/89423304]jason@jason-desktop:~$ wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/testing/linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz –2016-03-29 … Read more