http://www.walkernews.net/2007/06/22/download-official-redhat-linux-iso-image/ The link above is to the Redhat 6.2 Linux distribution, the first version of Linux I used. It ran very well on a Celeron 600 with 64MB of RAM and integrated graphics. Linux has come so far since it was first released, the desktop has gotten even easier to use and with the release … Read more
Dragonfly BSD. One very secure operating system.This is running in qemu, the emulator for PC operating systems. It is a live CD and has the option to install the operating system or use the system as root. Once logged in you can use gcc and vi, all the familiar UNIX/GNU tools. I could get to … Read more
Some very nice themes for the Linux desktopIcon themesMetacity themesNice wallpapers for your Linux desktop Some very nice themes for the Linux desktop Oxygen transparent KDE 4.0 theme. http://linuxmint-art.org/content/show.php/oxygen-transparent?content=127752. Uniq KDE 4.0 theme. http://linuxmint-art.org/content/show.php/uniq?content=112688. Elegant Gnome pack. GTK 2.0 pack. http://linuxmint-art.org/content/show.php/Elegant+Gnome+Pack?content=127826. Vertex theme pack. GTK 3.0 pack. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Vertex+-+Theme?content=166318. CinnXP Luna theme. Make your Gnome/MATE desktop … Read more
Generate secure passwords for your user accounts The pwgen command will generate a set of random passwords that may be used to secure your user account. Type this command to install this utility. root@DESKTOP-R72SPS3:~# apt-get install pwgenroot@DESKTOP-R72SPS3:~# apt-get install pwgen Now we can generate a few passwords. jason@DESKTOP-R72SPS3:/mnt/c/Users/johnc$ pwgen -s -v 79lZrgzb ctklTCV3 zX3nDCQr FXk5g7V8 … Read more
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
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
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
There are a few Linux easter eggs out there. The above screenshot shows the Douglas Adams quote in VIM. Type :42 in the command mode to get this quote. The apt-command for Ubuntu, Debian and Mint has had an embedded easter egg for quite a while. If you type the help command for apt-get, you … Read more
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
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
Apparently, the Linux bash shell is coming to Windows 10. This will offer a fully functional Linux bash prompt in the Windows app store, a good alternative to Powershell. This is in partnership with Canonical who work on the Ubuntu Linux distribution. As long as this offers tools such as dig, wget, and whois, it … Read more
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
Some very useful Linux tricks and tips. Convert a Linux text file to DOS format with AWK. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ awk ‘{sub(/$/,"\r")};1’ hello.txt > dodo2.txt┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ awk ‘{sub(/$/,"\r")};1’ hello.txt > dodo2.txt Convert a DOS text file to UNIX format. [jason@darknet:~] awk ‘{sub(/\r$/,"")};1’ dodo2.txt > dodo3.txt[jason@darknet:~] awk ‘{sub(/\r$/,"")};1’ dodo2.txt > dodo3.txt Get your Internet-facing IP address from … Read more
This is how to format a hard disk partition that will hold data for your Linux system. The partition must be unmounted before formatting, but this is the ideal way to create a file-system on a new partition that has been created with fdisk. root@jason-desktop:~# mkfs.ext4 mkfs.ext4 mkfs.ext4dev root@jason-desktop:~# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd3 mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) /dev/sdd3 … Read more
I recently needed to crack a pin number hash that was four digits and used the numbers 2490. This sounds easy, but hard until you realise that it is a relatively simple PIN. I used the command below to generate a 60 Gigabyte wordlist, containing all possible combinations of the numbers in the PIN. crunch … Read more
I was getting the read time-out error on Me TV on Ubuntu 16.04 and this is how I fixed it. Just run the application with this command line. ~$ me-tv –read-timeout 60~$ me-tv –read-timeout 60 This fixed the error. My ASUS My Cinema-U3100Mini Plus V2 device is now working and I am happy again. So … Read more
This command will add an IP route to the 172.29.59.1 router using the wlan0 wireless interface card on my laptop. jason@darknet:~$ sudo ip route add 0/0 via 172.29.59.1 dev wlan0jason@darknet:~$ sudo ip route add 0/0 via 172.29.59.1 dev wlan0 This is part of the process of creating a network connection from your machine to a … Read more
This photograph shows an elevator display screen that is displaying an Ubuntu Unity desktop environment with the updates manager prompting for updates to be installed. This is strange, this is not necessarily the most reliable desktop environment and running this on a computer in an elevator seems like a very dumb idea. But whoever designed … Read more
Creating a .Xmodmap file for Linux is very easy. This file contains all of the keyboard mappings for the keyboard keys for your system. jason@darknet:~$ xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmapjason@darknet:~$ xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap Now use less to view the completed file. jason@darknet:~$ cat .Xmodmapjason@darknet:~$ cat .Xmodmap This file can be edited if you wish to … Read more
The recent security breach on the Linux Mint website shows that updating a WordPress website regularly is very important. This breach allowed malicious attackers to compromise the Mint website and change download links to point to Linux Mint ISO images that contained extra files. Therefore, the people using these ISO`s would have been using a … Read more