A major change is coming to the internet on February 1st: domains that have outdated DNS settings or servers will no longer load for customers of major ISP’s. Is your domain going to be impacted by the “DNS Flag Day” change? Click the link below, then put in your web…
Read MoreThis very simple trick, prints the last used command in your bash history, with one weird trick. deusexmachina:~ jason$ echo !! echo ifconfig | awk ‘/inet / { print $2 }’ | sed -n 2pdeusexmachina:~ jason$ echo !! echo ifconfig | awk ‘/inet / { print $2 }’ | sed…
Read MoreXephem is a very old UNIX program, that is still able to be installed on a modern Ubuntu 18 desktop. Download all of the packages here into a new folder. http://e2rd.piekielko.pl/debian/binary-amd64/. Then we need to prepare for the installation of the packages. Install these two packages with apt to satisfy…
Read MoreTo format a drive to NTFS using Ubuntu, we need to use the terminal. The command used to create a filesystem on a drive is used here. But you must unmount the drive first, otherwise it will not work. 4.4 Thu Dec 20 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdf6 1)…
Read MoreHow to login as root in UbuntuInstall some nice themes and wallpapers in UbuntuGet weather information from the command line in LinuxAdd a nice menu to the Ubuntu MATE panel easily How to login as root in Ubuntu To login as a proper root user on Ubuntu, use this command….
Read MoreGet the current status of your battery with this command. deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo systemstats | grep "Battery Power" Battery Power: -8095 mW (-15.5 %/hr) Battery Power: -8034 mW (-15.6 %/hr) Battery Power: -6774 mW (-13.3 %/hr) Battery Power: -8080 mW (-15.3 %/hr) Battery Power: -7866 mW (-15.3 %/hr)deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo…
Read MoreUse the Linux command line to query a movie file for metadata with this very useful utility. This gives the user a lot of very useful information about a file. Install this useful utility. 4.4 Mon Dec 10 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo apt-get install mediainfo4.4 Mon Dec 10 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0:…
Read MoreThis command will display an image in your terminal. Very useful for viewing images without using an external image viewer. mpv –no-config –pause –vo=tct https://stallman.org/rms.jpgmpv –no-config –pause –vo=tct https://stallman.org/rms.jpg Play a movie in your terminal window with mpv. 4.4 Thu Nov 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ mpv –no-config –vo=tct fc4.mp44.4 Thu…
Read MoreHow to create a transparent webm file using ffmpeg ffmpeg -i "transparent.gif" -c:v libvpx -qmin 0 -qmax 18 -crf 9 -b:v 1400K -quality good -cpu-used 0 -auto-alt-ref 0 -pix_fmt yuva420p -an -sn -metadata title="Transparent Webm." "Transparent.webm"ffmpeg -i "transparent.gif" -c:v libvpx -qmin 0 -qmax 18 -crf 9 -b:v 1400K -quality good…
Read MoreFind any Microsoft Frontpage website with the username and password exposed. This is amazingly stupid. intext:" -FrontPage-" ext:pwd inurl:(service | authors | administrators | users)intext:" -FrontPage-" ext:pwd inurl:(service | authors | administrators | users) This is an example. # -FrontPage- therose:WK7JNgYcDkzac# -FrontPage- therose:WK7JNgYcDkzac A Similar search. This also finds websites…
Read MoreThis sed sample will filter out all HTML opening and closing tags in HTML sed -e ‘s/<[^>]*>//g’ blog.txtsed -e ‘s/<[^>]*>//g’ blog.txt This is an example of the usage of this one-liner. 4.4 Sun Nov 11 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sed -e ‘s/<[^>]*>//g’ index.php <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">…
Read MoreThere is an exploit that has been found in Linux that can overwrite the /etc/shadow file with a new password for root. But this requires the setuid root bit for Xorg and to be run from a text console that is not already running Xorg. So this will only work…
Read MoreThis command will print the number of running processes on a Linux system. 4.4 Tue Oct 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ps aux | wc -l 2554.4 Tue Oct 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ps aux | wc -l 255 Here is a nice alternative that will work on Ubuntu. The landscape-common…
Read MoreThe massive growth of piracy will not be stopped by government policy. The Internet is ever evolving and piracy sites just keep on moving to other addresses. Any website can just move to another web address and keep on trading as normal. Any website can just have mirrors that go…
Read MoreThe Mac OSX operating system has a lot of very useful commands for keeping track of network usage. Here is a very nice one. The nettop command. As you can see, this shows a constantly updating display of network usage on Mac. This is very useful for watching network throughput…
Read MorePrint a lost of information about your current terminal using the tcsh shell and a nice command. Yog-Sothoth:~> telltc Tcsh thinks your terminal has the following characteristics: It has 217 columns and 55 lines It has a meta key It can not use tabs It has automatic margins…
Read MoreLinux supports the creation of file hardlinks. This is a copy of a file that has the same inode as the original. If the copy is edited, the original is too. 4.4 Thu Oct 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ln missile.jpg missilenew.jpg 4.4 Thu Oct 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ls -hula…
Read Morehttps://github.com/john302/sysinfo. This is my system information program I coded for Linux. This gives a bit of information about your Linux system. Just check out the source and type make to compile. Here is some sample output. 13:21:02 ~/Downloads/sysinfo.kdevelop-1.0 homer@neo $ ./sysinfo 1 –System name – Linux –Nodename – neo.deusexmachina –Release…
Read MoreI do like some elements of the Gnome Shell desktop environment. The progress indicator in the title bar of the file manager is one. This shows the progress of file copying operations while the user is doing other things. A very good idea that should have been implemented a long…
Read MoreI have updated my System Information project, I used git to push changes to the repo from my local machine. This is not too hard. Add files to the main branch like this. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents/sysinfo$ git add src/iface.hjason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents/sysinfo$ git add src/iface.h Then push the changes to the repo. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents/sysinfo$ git push…
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