The best way to take a screenshot of an area of your screen is with a GUI application. Flameshot is one that is very good at doing this, and offers many tools to manipulate the image before saving. Install Flameshot easily. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt install flameshotjason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt install flameshot Then it will create menu … Read more
Some very useful code samples for any C programmer. These might give you some new ideas. Print the time and date with C. #include <time.h> // For time function (random seed). #include <stdio.h> // For extra functions. printf(). #include <stdlib.h> // For getenv(); #define format "The time and date is: %A %d %B %Y. … Read more
Using the Internet can be annoying when you are searching for an obscure fix to a problem and there is a solution that is on a forum that you cannot view unless you register with it. The solution sometimes is to Google the URL and then open the cached page. Otherwise you must register and … Read more
This is how I get the IP information from a Ubiquity wireless Nanostation. XM.v5.5.3# ifconfig br0 br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr DC:9F:DB:42:59:2B inet addr:192.168.1.20 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::de9f:dbff:fe42:592b/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING ALLMULTI MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:921 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:501 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:158229 (154.5 KiB) TX … Read more
This is how 4chan is depicted in a television show, each post has the same post numbers for god`s sake. They cannot even get this right. But that is how this works in television shows. She posts a comment and then gets a reply immediately, as if it is a Facebook comment thread. They always … Read more
It is very easy to create a loopback filesystem in your home directory. This can be used to store files, or can be enabled as a swap partition. Firstly, run this command to create a blank file-system image. This will be 524 megabytes. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents$ dd if=/dev/zero of=myimage.img bs=1024 count=524288jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents$ dd if=/dev/zero of=myimage.img bs=1024 count=524288 Now … Read more
To find information about a certain package on a Linux machine, the man command is very useful, but it does not show all man pages that could contain valuable information. The apropos command is what is required to find all pertinent information. This example below shows how to use this command to find all manual … Read more
A nice shell prompt that is randomly generated each time it appears. Working version. PS1="\[\e[1;31m\]$(shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/words)\[\e[m\]@\[\e[1;35m\]$(shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/words)\[\e[m\]\$ "PS1="\[\e[1;31m\]$(shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/words)\[\e[m\]@\[\e[1;35m\]$(shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/words)\[\e[m\]\$ " Select a random word from a textfile with bash. ubuntu ~ $ shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/words pluckedubuntu ~ $ shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/words plucked Select a … Read more
There is a massive repository of pirated material out there, and it is not Pirate Bay. It is Google Drive. There is practically anything you can dream of on there. Use this search term to find pirated movies. site:drive.google.com "yify" -"Whoops!"site:drive.google.com "yify" -"Whoops!" This returns a massive listing of all the pirated material that Google … Read more
Get a comprehensive listing of all Arch Linux pacman mirrors. curl -s -L "https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=all&protocol=https&use_mirror_status=on" 2>&1 | sed ‘s/^.//’ > mirrorlistcurl -s -L "https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=all&protocol=https&use_mirror_status=on" 2>&1 | sed ‘s/^.//’ > mirrorlist A simple script to update your mirror listing on your Arch Linux system. #!/bin/bash echo "Fetching new sorted mirrorlist…" curl -s -L "https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=all&protocol=https&use_mirror_status=on" 2>&1 | sed … Read more
It is very simple to show a banner to your users, that explains the terms of use for an SSH connection upon the user reaching a login prompt. Firstly, create a file named info in the /etc/ssh directory. sudo touch /etc/ssh/infosudo touch /etc/ssh/info Then put this in it. *************************************************************************** NOTICE TO USERS This … Read more
How to test a responsive web design with Firefox If you press Ctrl->Shift->m when viewing a website, it will be switched to a mobile view that allows you to see what the website looks like at various mobile resolutions. I found this out by accident. But this is a very cool Firefox trick. This makes … Read more
How to list all symlinks in a Linux directory To list only the symbolic links on a Linux filesystem, use ls and grep as shown below. This will easily do this for you. ubuntu ~/Documents $ ls -hula /lib | grep "\->" lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 4 02:48 cpp -> /etc/alternatives/cpp lrwxrwxrwx 1 … Read more