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Get information about your peripherals with Linux easily.

Linux offers many ways to get information about your current hardware. Such as mouse and keyboard model and type. Here is an example, getting information about the keyboard layout installed on my system. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ setxkbmap -query | awk ‘/layout/ && a ~ /model/ {print a"\n"$0} {a = $0}’ model: pc105 layout: us┌──[[email protected]]─[~] …

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How to get useful information about your Nvidia adapter on Linux.

Using an Nvidia graphics adapter on Linux is very useful, it allows gaming and using 3D modeling software. But if you need to know what processes are using your adapter, then you need to install a useful utility. This is called nvtop. Install it like this. ┌──[[email protected]]─[/] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo apt install nvtop┌──[[email protected]]─[/] └──╼ …

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A simple program to print information about kernel version and nodename.

This is a very simple program that prints information about the kernel version and nodename. This is very useful when building a larger system information program. sysinfo.c1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 …

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How to get ID3 information from a multimedia file with ffmpeg.

The ffmpeg utility is very useful for transcoding video and making video files, but it can also retrieve information from a video or audio file very easily. You can get the ID3 info from an mp3 very easily. Below is an example. I am getting album and artist information from an mp3 audio file. jason@jason-desktop:~/Music/Ludwig …

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Easily get Linux system information with simple utilities.

Get RAM information with the Linux command line and inxi. 4.4 Thu May 02 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo inxi -m 1) All commands run with root privileges are always dangerous. 2) Never run commands on an environment you are not willing to destroy, or able to restore. 3) Do not become root until you know …

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Get hardware information from your desktop PC on a website easily.

This is very easy to do. Get comprehensive hardware information about your desktop computer with a simple script. This is available to install for newer Ubuntu releases, but for those of us using an LTS release, the script may be downloaded from this page. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hw-probe/1.5-1. Unpack the tarball and then run the script to generate …

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How to easily get information about your CPU on Linux.

Getting information about your CPU on Linux is very easy. There are many ways to do this. The cpufreq app is one good way to get the current CPU frequency. 4.4 Thu Jun 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cpufreq-info -f -m 988 MHz4.4 Thu Jun 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cpufreq-info -f -m 988 MHz This command …

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Get information about your swap partition with this simple command.

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 …

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Very useful Linux shell tips and tricks.

Add a new directory to the PATH to allow running an application from it without typing the full path every time you wish to run it. PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/binPATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin Or you may have something like this in your .bashrc to add this every time you log in. PATH="/home/jason/perl5/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}"; export PATH;PATH="/home/jason/perl5/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}"; export PATH; This can also be set …

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Some very useful Windows 7 scripts to get system information.

A useful VBScript sample to get user information. This is just basic information about the user. ‘ Logoninformation.vbs ‘ VBScript Logon script. ‘ This program demonstrates how to get information about the logged in user. ‘ This script tested on a Windows 7 machine and works perfectly too. ‘ ———————————————————————- ‘ Copyright (c) 2012 John …

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Get information about your OpenBSD system easily.

The OpenBSD operating system has many ways to get system info. One way is to use the sysstat utility. This returns comprehensive information about a running UNIX system. Run sysstat with no parameters and you will get output like this. 2 users Load 0.51 0.36 0.16 neo.home 10:32:19   memory totals (in KB) PAGING SWAPPING …

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How to view comprehensive information about your hard drive using Linux.

The smartctl utility for Linux is the best way to get comprehensive information about all of your hard drives in your Linux system. This can be used to get the health of your drives and see if they need replacing. This is how you do it. 4.4 Mon Mar 25 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo smartctl …

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Stalker 2 developers are really getting annoying.

Сталкер 2 developers are wasting time on obscure codes instead of actually developing a worthwhile game. This is quite concerning, they could have a basic skeleton of a game and some artwork to show, but no, the stupid 2.0.2.1 code they are showing is very strange, why not tell us about the soundtrack that you …

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get information about running processes using Systemd.

The sudo systemctl status command will show a tree view of all running processes on your Linux machine. This is quite comprehensive and very useful output. Here is a sample. 4.4 Mon Mar 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ sudo systemctl status ● Yog-Sothoth State: running Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 0 units Since: Mon 2019-03-04 18:52:58 AEDT; …

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