The fast boot feature of Windows 8.1 allows a user to load Windows faster than ever before; but this can interfere with the mounting of the Windows partition from Linux. This forces the user to mount the partition read-only. But if you use this command in a command prompt on Windows, this problem will go … Read more
There is an annoying bug on Windows Phone 8 that causes the songs on your phone to be duplicated multiple times in the playlists. I managed to fix this by only putting the songs on the phone memory and leaving the SD card for photos and video. That way my Nokia 520 does not have … Read more
Some gorgeous themes for Fluxbox that will make your Linux desktop look even better! Java Fluxbox: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Solaris%3A+Java+Fluxbox+System?content=63303. A Solaris inspired Fluxbox theme. Amiga inspired Fluxbox theme: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/AMIGA?content=86836. This brings the look of the old Amiga desktops to Linux. Squared LMDE: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Squared+LMDE?content=146219. MacFly: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/MacFly+Fluxbox+Theme?content=59374. A Macintosh inspired theme for Fluxbox. Debian Squeeze: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/DebianSqueeze?content=128911. This is a … Read more
The netcat command is a program for querying network connections. This little program may be used to query whether a port is open on a Linux system or not. Here I am determining whether port 443 is open on this Linux Mint machine. homer@deusexmachina ~ $ nc -zv localhost 443 Connection to localhost 443 port … Read more
Download this from: http://astronaut.ru/bookcase/prog.htm. click on “программой” unzip the file and run inpu.exe in Dosbox. I used the following command: dosbox -c “mount c: soyuz” -c “c:” -c “inpu” -c “exit” Where soyuz is the directory that holds the files. This software has no mouse support, the arrow keys move the cursor and ENTER selects … Read more
Windows Server 2012 R2 supports quite a few cmdlets that allow the user to gain quite a bit of information about the networking configuration of the server machine. Here are a few examples with output. This command: Get-NetAdapterHardwareInfo gets hardware information about your wireless adapters. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-NetAdapterHardwareInfo Name Segment Bus Device Function Slot … Read more
How to use VLC on Linux to record a time lapse video easily.
This is how to automatically remove unneeded packages on your Linux Mint system. jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove [sudo] password for jason: Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libglib2.0-0:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386 libgstreamer0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-0:i386 liborc-0.4-0:i386 libpgm-5.1-0 libpoppler57 libpth20 libsndio6.0 libzmq3 qtdeclarative5-qtfeedback-plugin qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-web-plugin 0 to upgrade, 0 … Read more
The bash shell allows the user to redirect output from one application to another or to a file. This is very useful when you are building a one liner script to perform a certain action. Here is a simple redirection. ls > ls.outls > ls.out This redirects the output of the ls command to a … Read more
Change the mac address of your network adapter. sudo ifconfig wlan0 down && sudo ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 && sudo ifconfig wlan0 upsudo ifconfig wlan0 down && sudo ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 && sudo ifconfig wlan0 up This will change the mac address of your network interface instantly. Below is an example. homer@deusexmachina … Read more
I have just setup FreeBSD with a high resolution framebuffer console easily. I just typed vidcontrol -i mode to list all available framebuffer video modes and then I set the appropriate mode for my laptop screen. I then added this line to the /etc/rc.conf file: allscreens_flags=”MODE_332″. This sets a 1366*768 resolution for the framebuffer console. … Read more
This is the beginning of the end for the Internet if the Attorney-General George Brandis gets his way. There are a large number of people downloading the latest episodes of Game Of Thrones, but this is a massively popular TV show. The battle at the wall was well worth watching. People want the episodes as … Read more
I have managed to get the 14.4 ATI drivers to compile against the new 3.15 kernel on Linux Mint 16. I followed this guide: http://bluehatrecord.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/amd-catalyst-14-4-for-linux-loses-support-for-linux-kernel-versions-above-3-11/ and I used the commands on this page as well as this linked patch. This is how I managed to do it. I am now running a 3.15 kernel with … Read more
Compiling a kernel on Linux is very easy using the command line. You may download the latest mainline kernel from kernel.org. This is 3.15. Extract the file using this command. tar -xvf linux-3.15.tar.xztar -xvf linux-3.15.tar.xz Clean the source tree using this command. make mrpropermake mrproper Then open the configuration menus using this command. make menuconfigmake … Read more
The failed checksum from server error is very annoying on FreeBSD 10. I fixed this by using the following command. pkg update -fpkg update -f This updated the package repositories information for FreeBSD 10 and allowed me to install the packages I required. This is a good command to run from time to time that … Read more
The VMware tools are useful extensions for Debian, that allow a Linux distribution to be more usable in the VMware hypervisor. Use this simple command to install them in Debian 7.0. root@debian:/home/homer# apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktoproot@debian:/home/homer# apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop The open-vm-tools-desktop package installs the graphical VMware tools additions that will speed up the desktop and enable … Read more
I recently installed FreeBSD 10 in VMware and I had problems getting the mouse and keyboard to work with Xorg. I solved this in the following manner. I added these four lines to my /etc/rc.conf file. moused_enable="NO" moused_nondefault_enable="NO" hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES"moused_enable="NO" moused_nondefault_enable="NO" hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" The /etc/rc.conf file looks like this. hostname="deusexmachina" ifconfig_em0="DHCP" ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv" sshd_enable="YES" # … Read more
The update-grub command will update the grub menu on Kali Linux. root@kali:~# update-grub Generating grub.cfg … Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.12-kali1-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.12-kali1-amd64 Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found memtest86+ multiboot image: /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin No volume groups found doneroot@kali:~# update-grub Generating grub.cfg … Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.12-kali1-amd64 Found … Read more
I have just installed OpenSolaris UNIX in VMware. First impressions really are good; the LiveCD environment works very well indeed. The Gnome desktop is a breath of fresh air compared to the crap Unity desktop that comes with Ubuntu 14.10. Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is the default web browser; this is due to the fact … Read more
The lynis tool for Kali Linux allows you to scan your computer system for security vulnerabilities. Execute this command as root and this will allow you to find out if you have any problems with your installation. root@kali:/home/homer# lynis –check-all [ Lynis 1.4.1 ] ################################################################################ Lynis comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is … Read more