A very nice .vimrc file for any Linux user, this makes VI or VIM easier to use. " ~/.vimrc (configuration file for vim only) " skeletons function! SKEL_spec() 0r /usr/share/vim/current/skeletons/skeleton.spec language time en_US if $USER != ” let login = $USER elseif $LOGNAME != ” let login = $LOGNAME else…
Read MoreThis is a very useful resume template for an Information Technology student. This is for LaTeX, and makes the process of Curriculum Vitae writing very simple. https://github.com/sb2nov/resume. LaTeX makes the process of writing easier, the blocks of text may be rearranged more easily. I have used this to create very…
Read MoreThe nslookup command on UNIX and Linux may be used to get information about an IP address and tell you who it belongs to. This is very useful when using the Internet. This queries the DNS server and can tell you the domain name if any associated with the IP…
Read MoreThis is a Windows 10 computer with a virus infestation, this person was asking if this was a serious problem or not. I mean really? Of course it is. As long as I had Windows 10 installed, I shouldn’t have had anything at all to worry about. The problem is…
Read MoreThe best thing about the Linux desktop is the customization. You can tweak all sorts of things: icons, color schemes, fonts, everything. You can customize the system settings. You can even do color selection with your display device. Here’s an example: You can easily set a background for Windows. You…
Read MoreConverting a short video clip to a small webm file is very easy. Firstly, do this as part 1 of the two pass encoding process. ffmpeg -i BarakaClip.mkv -c:v libvpx -deadline good -cpu-used 5 -b:v 1000K -qmax 50 -an -f null -ffmpeg -i BarakaClip.mkv -c:v libvpx -deadline good -cpu-used 5…
Read MoreThis iptables config will map the 10.8.0.0 IP address to the 54.66.223.254 IP address range to enable the OpenVPN deamon to function. This is what I used when I was using OpenVPN to connect securely to a remote Amazon instance for access to a Linux virtual machine. # Generated by…
Read MoreComparing database engines is quite complex when you are deciding on which engine to use for managing a database on a desktop machine or a database for a website, although the MySQL engine is the most refined and stable database engine that is available today. Installation is very simple and…
Read MoreThis simple example shows how to check if a file exists or not. This is how we do this. if [ -f "/home/jason/foo" ]if [ -f "/home/jason/foo" ] Putting it together in a script makes it simple to verify if the file exists or not. if [ -f "/home/jason/foo" ]…
Read MoreThis nice command allows streaming some nice ambient drone music in the terminal with MPV. Very nice to listen to while doing other things. mpv http://ice.somafm.com/dronezone | sed -n "s/ icy-title: \(.*\)/\x1b[38;5;242m$(date +%T)\x1b[m | \1/p"mpv http://ice.somafm.com/dronezone | sed -n "s/ icy-title: \(.*\)/\x1b[38;5;242m$(date +%T)\x1b[m | \1/p" Play a Youtube video audio…
Read MoreA useful VBScript sample to get user information. This is just basic information about the user. ‘ Logoninformation.vbs ‘ VBScript Logon script. ‘ This program demonstrates how to get information about the logged in user. ‘ This script tested on a Windows 7 machine and works perfectly too. ‘ ———————————————————————-…
Read MoreThe Parrot pentesting Linux distribution is the best way to test the security of your home or work network. In skilled hands, tools such as Metasloit can generate a payload to send to an unsuspecting target and attempt to gain control of their machine. Wifite and Aircrack-ng can be used…
Read MoreThe Ubuntu 19.094 release is out, but does not work in older versions of VMWare. But I am installing it in qemu, following this guide. Follow this guide and load the ISO, and the installation will work. Apparently, workstation pro 15.1 supports an Ubuntu 19.04 Guest. But I chose to…
Read MorePlaying a Youtube video with mpv is very easy, it is also possible to skip to a certain part of the video whenever you wish. Make sure that you have the latest version of Youtube-dl first. sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/bin/youtube-dlsudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/bin/youtube-dl Then run this…
Read MoreSorting the output of ls by date modified is very easy. This is how to sort output and display the few most recent files. This example shows how to do this. Use head – 20 to list only the top 20 results. 4.4 Tue May 21 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ls…
Read MorePlay a music file in your terminal with a nice visualization, using this one-liner. This is very nice way to get a simple animation whilst playing a music file. MPV does support a massive amount of playing options, and using a visualization while playing music is another hidden feature. mpv…
Read MoreThe developers of Firefox have really screwed up right now. The certificate that they used to certify addons has expired and now the addons do not work. This is a monumental screw up by Mozilla. They cannot even manage simple certificates without it expiring because someone was too lazy to…
Read MoreUse this setting in about:config to fix this issue for now. xpinstall.signatures.required xpinstall.whitelist.requiredxpinstall.signatures.required xpinstall.whitelist.required That’s it. Now go and reinstall / reconfigure those addons. And for anyone on Firefox who hasn’t hit the issue yet, still do it, because you will eventually. Also, leave that drokking setting as false…
Read MoreSSH keysVirtual Private NetworkUse sudo instead of suVulnerability updatesLogin failure delayIptablesPasswords Securing a Linux server is very important. There are many attacks against UNIX servers and the security of corporate networks must be protected by many layered security devices and comprehensive security plans to deal with any problems experienced by…
Read MoreI have a few audio files that are split into left and right audio tracks. I needed to merge them into stereo files, and I have found out how to do this. The sox sound utility for Linux can perform this task admirably. Here I have a music file and…
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