Miscellaneous Linux tips for the Linux desktop.
Some very useful Linux desktop tips for manipulating windows on the desktop.
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Matlab code from 1983 was found on the Internet.
The Matlab source code from 1985 has been found on the Internet. This is amazing.
Read MoreUpdate packages on Mac OSX with Homebrew.
How to install and update packages on your Mac OSX Homebrew installation.
Read MoreLinux Lockdown: Hal’s Challenge.
A TV show scene, replacing Jigsaw with Hal 9000.
Read MoreSet the terminal title easily on Linux using a simple variable.
How to set the terminal title with Linux very easily, this is a very useful Linux tip.
Read MoreHow to have eternal bash_history on Linux if required.
How you can have an eternal bash history in Linux and save every command you have executed.
Read MoreMore very useful sed tips for the command line on Linux.
More useful sed tips.
Read MoreSome very useful Xterm tips for using this venerable terminal emulator in 2023.
Some very useful tips for using the Xterm terminal emulator on Linux.
Read MoreGet information about your boot partitions easily.
How to get information about the boot partitions in your Linux machine.
Read MoreHow to print your IP address with Bash on Mac OSX in the terminal app.
This one-liner will print the current LAN IP address of a machine running Macintosh OSX. jason@. PWD: ~. -bash. 3.2.57. 10 $> ifconfig | grep "inet " | awk ‘FNR==2{print $2}’ 192.168.1.2jason@. PWD: ~. -bash. 3.2.57. 10 $> ifconfig | grep "inet " | awk ‘FNR==2{print $2}’ 192.168.1.2 This is…
Read MoreVery nice FVWM config to provide a very useful desktop interface.
This is my very old .fvwm2rc I used to use. This should be very useful for anyone who is interested in using this very old desktop environment. ~/.fvwm2rc1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23…
Read MoreVery useful .cshrc file for a UNIX or Linux machine.
This is a very useful .cshrc file for any Linux or UNIX machine. This gives a very nice prompt and a few very useful aliases. /etc/csh.login1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25…
Read MoreHow to change the default window manager on OpenBSD.
I am using OpenBSD, and I do not like the default Window Manager used by the operating system. I installed the Fluxbox Window Manager and I had to tell X11 to load it instead of the default. I did it like this. Install the Xorg packages during installation, then you…
Read MoreGet information about your OpenBSD system easily.
The OpenBSD operating system has many ways to get system info. One way is to use the sysstat utility. This returns comprehensive information about a running UNIX system. Run sysstat with no parameters and you will get output like this. 2 users Load 0.51 0.36 0.16 neo.home 10:32:19 memory…
Read MoreInstalling OpenBSD is very easy to do.
I am installing OpenBSD in VMware to test out this very nice UNIX operating system, and this should be very easy to do. I chose to install manually, the auto installation option does not work. Then I had to setup the network interfaces for the operating system. I chose to…
Read MoreJust upgraded to OSX Mojave.
I have just upgraded a Macbook to OSX Mojave. This was very painless, and did not take very long at all. Upgrading a Macintosh machine is much easier than upgrading Windows 10, with all of the hassles and file deletion issues involved in that process. After the installation process, I…
Read MoreHow to install a Linux version of the SGI UNIX desktop on Fedora 25.
I just installed the Linux version of the SGI desktop on my Fedora 25 Linux machine. This was not too hard either. Download a copy of the installation script from here: http://www.maxxinteractive.com/site/?page_id=51. Run the script as root to download and install the MaXX desktop tarball. [root@localhost Downloads]# sh MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-Installer.sh …
Read MoreUseful C tricks and code samples.
How to define a string and print it out with the printf() function. #include <stdio.h> /* Defining a global string. */ #define hi "Hello Sire." int main(void) { /* Printing out the string. */ printf("%s\n", hi); return 0; }#include <stdio.h> /* Defining a global string. */…
Read MoreHow to show the routing table on Linux with the bash command shell.
The netstat command may be used to show the routing tables for your network connection easily. Use the netstat -r command to achieve this. iMac05:~ admin$ netstat -r Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 172.18.31.1 UGSc 31 0 en0 127 localhost UCS 0 0…
Read MoreCool Linux tricks and hacks for the desktop and server user.
Using the shellshock bash bug on an iMac. iMac04:~ admin$ env VAR1=’me() {echo "hello"}\ ‘ /bin/echo "hello" helloiMac04:~ admin$ env VAR1=’me() {echo "hello"}\ ‘ /bin/echo "hello" hello Getting free hard disk space easily. iMac04:~ admin$ df -Hla Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/disk0s2 89G 64G…
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