How to force a re-boot or shutdown if the traditional commands will not work.

If your machine has errors with the hard disk and your machine has booted with a read-only filesystem, these commands can force your machine to either shutdown or reboot. Forced re-boot. echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq echo b > /proc/sysrq-triggerecho 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger Forced shutdown. echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq echo o > … Read more

How to save your iptables firewall rules using the iptables-persistent package for Linux.

The iptables firewall is the built-in firewall for protecting a Linux machine from online threats. But the settings are not save upon a re-boot. This is easily alleviated by installing the iptables-persistent package for Ubuntu. Once this is installed, you will be greeted with a screen that will ask you if you wish to save … Read more

Reboot short film showcasing more technical failures in modern film. Using the Windows CMD on Mac?

There is a new short film out now that has a scene where a character is using an Apple Macintosh computer, yet the terminal window has a Windows command prompt in it? The character is using the Aircrack-ng WIFI cracking utility to crack the passkey for a WIFI network, but they are using the Windows … Read more