Installing the new VIM release from source is very easy. I have this running on Ubuntu 17.10 and it is great, the editor allows the user to open a terminal within the editor. Make a new folder to download the files into. Go into the directory, and then run this…
Read MoreHow to return only interface names when listing all installed network interfaces in a Linux box. jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~/Documents$ ip link | grep -Po "(?<=^\d: |^\d\d:)[^:]+(?=:)" lo eth0 wlan0jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~/Documents$ ip link | grep -Po "(?<=^\d: |^\d\d:)[^:]+(?=:)" lo eth0 wlan0 This is very useful to get a listing of all networking interfaces for…
Read MoreIt is very easy to get information about wireless networks with the command line. This example uses iwlist to view the information we need. jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan | grep ESSID ESSID:"OPTUS58FFG69" ESSID:"TelstraD22F23" ESSID:"OPTUS58FFG69" ESSID:"TelstraD22F23" ESSID:"OPTUS_B8E926"jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan | grep ESSID ESSID:"OPTUS58FFG69" ESSID:"TelstraD22F23" ESSID:"OPTUS58FFG69" ESSID:"TelstraD22F23" ESSID:"OPTUS_B8E926" This…
Read MoreThis is yet another way to get the actual IP address of your Linux machine on a LAN. This returns just the IP address of your Linux computer. jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ ip a | awk ‘/inet / { print $2 }’ | sed -n 2p 192.168.1.4/24jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ ip a | awk ‘/inet /…
Read MoreThe sftp utility for Linux allows copying files from a remote Linux machine, or sending them to one, this makes working with a machine over SSH very easy. Firstly, connect to the machine like this. deusexmachina:~ jason$ sftp [email protected] [email protected]’s password: Connected to 192.168.1.4.deusexmachina:~ jason$ sftp [email protected] [email protected]’s password: Connected…
Read MoreI recently had to upgrade an Ubuntu 14.04 system to the latest release. I ran the command below and my system was upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. sudo do-release-upgradesudo do-release-upgrade This was run over SSH, but I did not lose my connection, and it was quite a painless experience. This…
Read MoreVery useful information for a new Linux user Very comprehensive .bashrc file for your Linux system. http://securitronlinux.com/debian-testing/very-comprehensive-bashrc-file-for-your-linux-system/. How to generate a random password using the command line. http://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/how-to-generate-a-random-password-using-the-command-line/. UNIX & Linux PDF Ebooks. Many useful Linux and BSD E-Books available. learn all you can about Linux by reading these useful…
Read MoreAlign all text right on an 80 column width. jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~/Documents$ ls -hula | sed -e :a -e ‘s/^.\{1,80\}$/ &/;ta’ total 872K drwxr-xr-x 2 jason jason 4.0K May 4 08:48 . drwxr-xr-x 23 jason jason 4.0K May 3 20:51 .. -rw-r–r– 1 jason jason 848K Apr 21 13:01 altis_insurgency_altis.pbo -rwxrwxr-x 1…
Read MoreSSL packets sent to and fro from your machine can contain a lot of useful information. I am going to show how to see what websites are visited on a network. Firstly, load Wireshark and then listen to traffic on your machine. Then visit a few different websites with Firefox…
Read MoreSSH is a great way to connect to a remote Linux server over a network. This is how to use SSH easily yourself. Firstly, install SSH on the remote machine to allow remote connections if it is a server you are setting up. sudo apt install sshsudo apt install ssh…
Read MoreMicrosoft corporation is developing a custom Linux kernel, that is intended to power their Azure Sphere security framework. This is a great step for the software giant, that has formerly opposed free software and even Google. Now they are embracing Github and Linux. This is only a kernel; not an…
Read MoreTo boot Linux with the text scrolling past, and no bootsplash, edit the /etc/default/grub file and change the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT value to “text”. # If you change this file, run ‘update-grub’ afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. # For full documentation of the options in this file, see: # info -f grub…
Read MoreThere are a few Windows themes out there, I just wanted to show how to make the MATE desktop look like Windows 8.1. This is very easy, just download these theme files. Windows 8 mouse cursor theme: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Win8E?content=160758. Put the contents into the ~/.icons directory. Like this. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/.icons$ ls -hula…
Read MoreThere are some very useful tricks that can be used to get information about packages installed on a Debian or Ubuntu machine. Here are just a few. Get a graphical view of the actual dependencies of a package such as Firefox. Firstly, install the graphviz package. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt install…
Read MoreThe original file manager that was featured in Windows NT 4.0 is now available for a modern 64-bit operating system. This is a Visual Studio solution and will build on a modern Windows operating system. Microsoft are gradually open-sourcing old parts of Windows. This is a good thing I think….
Read MoreInstalling wallpapers into the backgrounds folder in Enlightenment E17. Installing wallpapers with the E17 window manager is very easy, mostly like the older Enlightenment E16 window manager. You may either copy the wallpapers into the ~/.e/e/backgrounds/ folder or import them with the backgrounds settings dialog. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/.e/e/backgrounds$ ls -hula total 43M…
Read MoreThe E17 desktop is the best alternative to the bloated MATE and Gnome desktop environments. These are good, but use a lot of resources. A good alternative is to use E17. This is light and has a lot of very good effects. Install it on Ubuntu 17 easily. sudo apt…
Read MoreRunning Windows in a qemu virtual machine is very easy. Install all required qemu packages. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-utils qemujason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-utils qemu Now we can create a virtual machine disk image to install our virtual machine onto. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ qemu-img create -f raw win7.img 30Gjason@Yog-Sothoth:~$…
Read MoreUnpacking a Live CD on Linux is very easy, if the user wants the files within the Live disc and is running Linux. Firstly, install the 7zip software. sudo apt-get install p7zip-fullsudo apt-get install p7zip-full Now copy a Live CD ISO to an empty directory and run this command. 7z…
Read MoreThere are many Linux distributions in the world, but are there Linux distros created in India? Yes there are. Hamara Linux is an Indian developed Linux distribution, with good language support. Supported languages in Linux: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Tamil and Telugu. Website: https://www.hamaralinux.org/blog/….
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