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Interesting and useful commands available using the BASH shell on Linux.

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This is an interesting command to view your command history when you are using Bash. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ hash hits command 1 /usr/bin/gethostip 1 /usr/bin/sudo┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ hash hits command 1 /usr/bin/gethostip 1 /usr/bin/sudo This command is a Bash shell built-in command. If you are using the tcsh or zsh shells; this command … Read more

Installing Gentoo on a laptop. My experiences with this distro.

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I have just installed Gentoo hardened Linux on my laptop. This distribution is far more hands-on than Ubuntu and Linux Mint, but it was enjoyable to install. I have not built and installed a desktop environment yet, I am just using the framebuffer console and this suits me fine. Once the system is installed, the … Read more

Masters Degree in Information Security – SANS Technology Institute. Even the Army is studying.

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The US Army is training soldiers in cyberwarfare, using Linux in Virtual machines to learn how to use SSH and gain access past a SSH public key. The soldier in this photo is searching for “permission denied SSH public key”, he wants to bypass this and gain access to a remote server. But bypassing a … Read more

HP releases new Star Wars laptop, just in time for holiday shopping.

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Hewlett Packard have released a new Star Wars themed laptop, just in time for Christmas. This laptop, starting at $699.99 is a bargain and would be the perfect present for any Star Wars fan. See all of the options and customize before purchasing on this page: http://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/Laptops/star-wars-special-edition#vao. Buy one today for the Star Wars fan … Read more

Check the status of your laptop battery with Powershell on Windows.

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This simple one liner will print the battery status of your laptop battery in percent. This shows that I have 48% battery charge remaining. PS C:\> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Battery).estimatedchargeremaining 48PS C:\> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Battery).estimatedchargeremaining 48 Run it like this to get all of the information about your laptop battery. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Battery)   … Read more

New System 76 laptop has a touch screen and Ubuntu operating system. A good price too!

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System 76 have released a new touch screen laptop that runs the free Ubuntu Linux distribution. Base pricing begins at US$899.00 for the machine with an Intel Core i5 CPU clocked at 1.5 GHZ. There is 4 Gigabytes of DDR3 RAM installed and Intel HD 4400 Graphics along with a 500 Gigabyte 5400 RPM HDD. … Read more

Another way to get information about your laptop battery when you are running Linux.

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This command: upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 will give you information about your laptop battery. homer@neo:~/Documents$ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:0c/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT0 vendor: PANASONIC model: Li_Ion_4000mA serial: 0000 power supply: yes updated: Sun Sep 29 02:39:34 2013 (3 seconds ago) has history: yes has statistics: yes battery present: yes rechargeable: yes state: discharging energy: 27.2484 Wh energy-empty: 0 … Read more

OpenSUSE 12.3 distribution working very well on my new laptop.

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The OpenSUSE 12.3 distribution is a Linux desktop solution that is working very well on my laptop. I decided to install it on that instead of on my desktop and everything is working a treat. I had problems getting this distribution working with ATI hardware, so I wanted it on my laptop. It had an … Read more

How to check laptop battery status with the Linux command-line.

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To check the battery status of your Linux laptop; use the acpi command. This will display the status of your laptop battery. exempli gratia. [email protected] ~$ acpi Battery 0: Disharging, 40%, 00:48:32 [email protected] ~$ acpi Battery 0: Disharging, 40%, 00:48:32 remaining. This command also has many other options. This one shows the CPU temperature. [email protected] … Read more