The best way to tag your music collection on Linux is with MusicBrainz Picard. This is an automatic music tagging program that will lookup music on the MusicBrainz website using acoustic matching and then automatically tag the tracks and save the processed files into a folder you specify. This works very well. It does not … Read more
Burp suite is very good for scanning websites, but there is also a nice alternative for website application scanning. This is zaproxy. This is a very good alternative for performing this task. It is very easy to install. If you have snap enabled. 4.4 Mon Nov 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ snap install zaproxy –classic zaproxy … Read more
I am needing to install Emacs on my computer and I have decided to install from source. This is easy on Linux, I had to ensure I had the latest build of Emacs. Then I could compile the source code. Download the source here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-26.3.tar.xz. Firstly, extract the source to a folder. 4.4 Wed Oct … Read more
The new mega Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl mod Объединенный пак 2.1 is going to receive an update next year with the OP 2.2 version slated for release. This features a 64bit engine and new areas. This will also feature a new plot and older more familiar quests are redone. This will keep it very fresh. … Read more
This is an interesting bash scripting trick. This allows deleting the first 10 lines from a text file, but keeping the rest of the file instead of deleting it. X=10 file="file.txt" # read the file, line by line while read -r line; do # add current line to array # (you can modify this to … Read more
My Ubuntu 18.04 system was taking a long time to boot, but I have analyzed the problem with Systemd and now it should boot faster. Run this command to see which service takes the longest at boot time. 4.4 Thu Oct 17 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ systemd-analyze blame | head -n 10 2min 10.235s apt-daily.service 55.956s … Read more
Using a nice big flat screen is a lot of fun with a modern PC, but how do you change the brightness of the screen with the command line? This is easy. Firstly, find the ID of your display using this command. 4.4 Wed Oct 16 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ xrandr -q | grep " connected"4.4 … Read more
It is very easy to copy text to a online pastebin from the clipboard with Linux. This post will show you how to do this. The https://0x0.st/ website is a very useful online pastebin. I am going to show how to send text to a pastebin like this. Make sure xclip and curl are installed. … Read more
If you need to perform a command a second time on a different file, you can use command replacement with the ^ symbol. e.g. cp foo.txt /to/some/directory then ^foo^bar, expanding to: cp bar.txt /to/some/directory. To find information about a particular command, the apropos utility can be very helpful, this will search the system and find … Read more
The many Linux distributions we have today have come a long way since the old days. The evolution of the Linux desktop has lead us in strange directions, culminating in the Gnome Shell desktop interface, as well as Ubuntu Unity. But these have some nice features that make up for the strangeness. But older Linus … Read more
Microsoft have been plagued by many issues regarding the quality control and testing within the organisation. The main problem is that there are different testing teams for each section of the operating system, and this has lead to problems slipping through the cracks into mainstream releases. This has caused a lot of embarrassment for Microsoft, … Read more
To trim multiple spaces from a sentence and turn it back into properly readable text, use this sed syntax. sed ‘s/ \+/ /g’sed ‘s/ \+/ /g’ This is an example. echo "Hello, this sentence has multiple spaces in it and needs fixing." Hello, this sentence has multiple spaces in it and needs fixing.echo "Hello, this … Read more
The brave web browser is a very secure alternative to Firefox and Chromium for the Linux platform. To install this browser on Ubuntu 18.04, use snap. 4.4 Wed Sep 25 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo snap install brave Warning: /snap/bin was not found in your $PATH. If you’ve not restarted your session since you installed snapd, … Read more
Systemd, by default waits a long time for some services to shutdown when switching off the machine. This can be annoying when you get a message in the console that a stop job is running for a certain service, and it is waiting for it to shutdown. But this can be fixed. Edit the /etc/systemd/system.conf … Read more
This command will print information about your swap partition easily using the Linux command line. root@Yog-Sothoth:~# swapon -s -v Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 7811068 0 -2 /dev/dm-1 partition 62500860 0 -3root@Yog-Sothoth:~# swapon -s -v Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 7811068 0 -2 /dev/dm-1 partition 62500860 0 -3 The –show parameter … Read more
A quantum CPU could be a good way to get way more power out of a modern PC. Games and applications are becoming more and more demanding, as well as websites that run bitcoin miners in the background like Piratebay. But operating systems and applications would need to be completely rewritten to work on a … Read more
This command will copy text to a pastebin online using curl. 4.4 Mon Sep 16 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ echo "This is a message I want to save online." | curl -F file=@- https://0x0.st/4.4 Mon Sep 16 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ echo "This is a message I want to save online." | curl -F file=@- https://0x0.st/ This … Read more
The nftables firewall is a good alternative to iptables. This has better performance than the old iptables system. To install this on Ubuntu 18.04, run this command. 4.4 Thu Sep 12 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo apt install nftables4.4 Thu Sep 12 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo apt install nftables Edit the /etc/nftables.conf file to remove the … Read more
There is a nice new Linux distribution, LXLE. This is a very light and fast Linux distro based on Ubuntu. This would run fine on an older machine that cannot handle the full Ubuntu distribution. This is very helpful of the user has an old machine that they are not using, and wish to press … Read more
How to use rsync to send files from your hard disk to a backup drive. This example will copy the files from a folder to a backup drive and the ipinfo folder will be created on your backup HDD. rsync -av Documents/ipinfo/ /media/jason/Seagate\ Expansion\ Drive/Linux/ipinfo/ sending incremental file list created directory /media/jason/Seagate Expansion Drive/Linux/ipinforsync -av … Read more