I have my mobile telephone connected with a male-male 3.5mm cable to my computer and I wanted to record segments from the radio to the computer with Audacity. This is how I achieved that. And also configuring the alsamixer settings properly to enable the line-in port as the capture source will help with this. This … Read more
The sysctl command on Linux may be used to return information about your installed hardware; as well as virtual memory information. Below is an example looking at virtual memory information. zsh 7 % sysctl -a | grep vm sysctl: permission denied on key ‘kernel.cad_pid’ sysctl: permission denied on key ‘kernel.usermodehelper.bset’ sysctl: permission denied on key … Read more
Spawn fire in air in Arma 3 Put this code in your initPlayerLocal.sqf and this will spawn a fire object on top of a smoke stack. _firePos = [4234.45,18088.8,58.9342]; _fire = "test_EmptyObjectForFireBig" createVehicle _firePos; _fire setPos [_firePos select 0, _firePos select 1, 59];_firePos = [4234.45,18088.8,58.9342]; _fire = "test_EmptyObjectForFireBig" createVehicle _firePos; _fire setPos [_firePos select 0, … Read more
To find the largest file in a directory; use the du command and this will return the information you are after. Using the pipe symbol to send the text through to the head command will allow us to only return the one file we are interested in. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ find . -type f -exec ls -al … Read more
To send a message to logged in Linux users with the wall command, just open it and type a message. Then press ^D to send it. jason$ wall Hi Broadcast message from jason@jason-desktop (pts/0) (Sat Aug 27 22:24:05 2016): Hijason$ wall Hi Broadcast message from jason@jason-desktop (pts/0) (Sat Aug 27 22:24:05 2016): Hi … Read more
This command will set the timestamp of a file in Linux to be in the past. I am not sure what use this is, but it shows what you can do with the Linux command line. john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Documents $ touch -t 200510071138 root.jpeg john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Documents $ ls root.jpeg -rw-r–r– 1 john john 385K 07-10-05 11:38 … Read more
There are plans afoot to move the Virtual Terminal on Linux to userspace instead of it being a kernel level application. But the main strength of the Virtual Terminal is that it is very reliable and you can always rely on it when your Xorg installation has crashed with an error. This is why we … Read more
In the television series “Heroes” a KDE desktop was spotted running the Kopete application. A screenshot below. This is a Mandriva distribution displaying part of the Kmix window and a live webcam application. We all know about the famous scene in the Matrix Reloaded where Trinity is cracking the Matrix power station servers to buy … Read more
How to list the indexes in a MySQL database table. Easily done using the show command. mysql> show index from customer; +———-+————+——————-+————–+——————–+———–+————-+———-+——–+——+————+———+—————+ | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment | +———-+————+——————-+————–+——————–+———–+————-+———-+——–+——+————+———+—————+ | customer | 0 | … Read more
The first man in space was Yuri Gargarin who was born in 1934 the son of a carpenter, he went into orbit in 1961 beating the Americans and establishing the Soviet Union as a leader in the space race. The Americans made it to the Moon, but the Russians were the first to make it … Read more