This simple code will return the length of a string easily. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main (void) { char base64[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/"; int len_str; // calculates length of string len_str = sizeof(base64) / sizeof(base64[0]); printf("%d\n", len_str); return 0; }#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main (void) { char…
Read MoreThere are a few people who are upset over the changes to the Linux management. I.e the new code of conduct and the manager of the Linux kernel. Linux will not be affected, it is still the same Linux kernel and the same code, it will just be managed by…
Read MoreThe KDE Trinity desktop has all of the good themes that users of KDE 2.2 would remember. These are great themes, there was another KDE theme I miss from the olden days. It was a stone look-alike theme that was very nice, but I cannot find it on the Internet….
Read MoreThis is the Ubuntu distribution running the Trinity desktop for Linux. This is a reworking of KDE 3 to operate on a modern Linux distribution. I added this to my /etc/apt/sources.lst for Ubuntu 18.04. deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/ubuntu bionic main deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/ubuntu bionic main deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/ubuntu bionic main deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/ubuntu bionic maindeb…
Read MoreThis command will list all Gnome packages that are currently installed on your Debian system and can be uninstalled. 4.4 Mon Sep 10 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ dpkg –get-selections | grep gnome | cut -f 14.4 Mon Sep 10 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ dpkg –get-selections | grep gnome | cut -f 1…
Read MoreThe /etc/hosts file on my Ubuntu system did not have the proper hostname set and this could have been causing issues. So I edited it and set a nodename and now my PC works fine. 4.4 Fri Sep 07 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 Yog-Sothoth # The following lines…
Read MoreThis simple one-liner will encode a video to a format suitable for Youtube. 4.4 Tue Sep 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ffmpeg -i scorcher.avi -codec:v libx264 -crf 21 -bf 2 -flags +cgop -pix_fmt yuv420p -codec:a aac -strict -2 -b:a 384k -r:a 48000 -movflags faststart scorcher.mp4 This gives good quality output whilst…
Read MoreA very colorful example that will really stand out. 4.4 Wed Aug 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ Here is the code for this example. export PS1="\[\033[38;5;39m\]\v\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\] \[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;83m\]\d\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\] \[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;201m\]\u\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;196m\]@\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;51m\]\H\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\] \[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;82m\]\l\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\]: \\$ \[$(tput sgr0)\]"export PS1="\[\033[38;5;39m\]\v\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\] \[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;83m\]\d\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\] \[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;201m\]\u\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;196m\]@\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;51m\]\H\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\]…
Read MoreThe benefits of using an SSL certificate are many in this day and age, the immediate boost to your website is the trust gained by users that data entered on the website is secure. This is why bank websites use SSL and Site Seal to display a green padlock, and…
Read MorePlay a video in the mpv player and move the video frame partly off the screen. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ mpv dvb://"SBS ONE HD(SBS)" –video-pan-y=-0.2 –video-pan-x=-0.2 This is a more extreme example. Play a video stream and only a small corner of it is visible. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ »…
Read MoreMy Internet connection in Ubuntu 18 was very slow compared to Windows 8.1. This is how I fixed it. Run this command to open the /etc/resolv.conf file for editing. If you do not have VIM installed, try nano instead. Or run sudo apt install vim-common. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $…
Read MoreThis is a scam website that purports to be Microsoft. This is very funny. When you call your webpage “Microsoft Official Support” to make the virus you’re peddling sound legit, but your URL is an encrypted subdomain of cloudfare.net. This is the funniest thing ever, sure on the `phone this…
Read MoreThis script will run a qemu VM and setup networking easily. This is very simple. 1 #!/bin/sh 2 3 export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=alsa 4 DISKIMG=~/win7.img 5 WIN7IMG=~/Downloads/win7.iso 6 VIRTIMG=~/Downloads/virtio-win-0.1-81.iso 7 qemu-system-x86_64 –enable-kvm -drive file=${DISKIMG},if=virtio -m 4096 \ 8 -net nic,model=virtio -net user -cdrom ${WIN7IMG} \ 9 -drive file=${VIRTIMG},index=3,media=cdrom \ 10 -rtc base=localtime,clock=host…
Read MoreThe network adapter name is easy to return on Linux. This simple one-liner will give this information to the user. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ ip -o -4 route show to default | awk '{print $5}' enp0s25 Using this information to get information about a network adapter. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~…
Read MoreThis simple script sample will spawn 3 enemy groups around a central point in safe places. Fixed version, I accidentally posted the wrong code, this will work fine. I tested this in a mission and it works now. _Center = _randPos2; _Circle1 = [_Center, 150, 150, 0, 0, 20, 0]…
Read MoreVery old, but precious UNIX documentation from the 1970`s. These would be very interesting reading for someone interested in UNIX. 1972 UNIX programming manual. https://www.tuhs.org//Archive/Distributions/Research/1972_stuff/unix_2nd_edition_manual.pdf. Tmg compiler-writing language manual. https://www.tuhs.org//Archive/Distributions/Research/1972_stuff/tmg.pdf. UNIX Programmers manual November 1971. https://www.tuhs.org//Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v1/UNIX_ProgrammersManual_Nov71.pdf. UNIX Kernel Subroutine Descriptions March 1972. https://www.tuhs.org//Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v1/Kernel_Subroutine_Descriptions_Mar72.pdf. Intro on how manual pages are laid…
Read MoreA complex, but very useful bash shell prompt. PS1=$( sep=$'\xC2\xBB' # UTF-8 U+00BB red=$(tput setaf 1) green=$(tput setaf 2) yellow=$(tput setaf 3) blue=$(tput setaf 4) cyan=$(tput setaf 5) bold=$(tput bold) reset=$(tput sgr0) [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]] && user=$red || user=$green echo "\[$user\]\u@\h\[$reset\] \[$blue$bold\]$sep\[$reset\] \[$yellow\]\W\[$reset\] \[$blue$bold\]$sep\[$reset\] \[$user\]\$\[$reset\] ") Gives the…
Read MoreMake your XFCE desktop look as close as possible to an old IRIX machine. SGI Screen Fonts https://www.gnome-look.org/p/998527/ Xfwm4 theme that is based on the window manager for SGI OS. https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1015906/ SGI-IMD Metacity theme. This also works with MATE. https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1006689/ SGI Irix cursor theme. This works with any window manager….
Read MoreI have just bought an old Kaiser Baas TV dongle and getting it to work on Windows is very frustrating. The website does not have drivers available and there are only dodgy driver download websites that have anything for download. Whereas on Linux, I just plug it and then run…
Read MoreGet your most popular shell commands with a simple one-liner, this is a very interesting Linux hack, good to see what you are using the terminal for.
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