Stalker Legends of the Zone trilogy for Xbox and PlayStation now allows modding.
Stalker games on consoles now have modding support. This is great for gamers.
Read MoreStalker games on consoles now have modding support. This is great for gamers.
Read MoreHow to set a custom console font on your Linux console with the command line easily.
Read MoreSome useful cheats and information for the PSX Doom port. As well as cheats for Boom and PC Doom.
Read MoreSome interesting and useful Linux shell commands Linux has some very useful and interesting commands available to the Linux desktop user to find out information about your computer system. Some of these hearken back to the days of the old Linux terminals; when you accessed your computer from a dumb…
Read MoreThere are quite a few interesting command-line tricks for Windows. Create a folder named CON. This is quite difficult to delete. echo "hello" > \\.\C:\Users\shawn\Documents\CONecho "hello" > \\.\C:\Users\shawn\Documents\CON Another interesting trick is one. C:\Users\Dyatlov\Downloads\testing>echo "" > ….::$INDEX_ALLOCATION The system cannot find the file specified.C:\Users\Dyatlov\Downloads\testing>echo "" > ….::$INDEX_ALLOCATION The system cannot…
Read MoreThis is how to get the current IP address of the active network adapter in your Windows system. PS C:\Users\Doom> (Test-Connection -ComputerName (hostname) -Count 1).IPV4Address.IPAddressToString 192.168.1.2PS C:\Users\Doom> (Test-Connection -ComputerName (hostname) -Count 1).IPV4Address.IPAddressToString 192.168.1.2 This prints the IP address of your machine to the Powershell terminal. This is a great way…
Read MoreThis GRUB config in the /etc/default/grub file will give a good old-fashioned text boot instead of the graphical bootsplash that we are all familiar with. This works very well on my system, and the user can see exactly what is happening when the machine is booting up. This allows the…
Read MoreThe tail command is a good way to see new content in a file, but it is monochrome output. But there is a better way to monitor files. Use the multitail command instead. This will print muticolored output when printing the last few lines of a file. Install this utility….
Read MoreSetting a larger console font on Ubuntu Linux 12.04. To do this first get to a text console by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login with your username ↦ password, then type this command to set a larger font. setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat7-TerminusBold28x14.psf.gzsetfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat7-TerminusBold28x14.psf.gz This is a nice large font and is more readable…
Read MoreThe console font in Ubuntu 15.04 can be quite garbled when a console application is loaded that requires ncurses characters to draw an interface. There as easy fix for this. Run this command in a virtual terminal or a terminal emulator window. sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setupsudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup Now choose UTF-8…
Read MoreI have just setup FreeBSD with a high resolution framebuffer console easily. I just typed vidcontrol -i mode to list all available framebuffer video modes and then I set the appropriate mode for my laptop screen. I then added this line to the /etc/rc.conf file: allscreens_flags=”MODE_332″. This sets a 1366*768…
Read MoreVery useful Linux commands for administering your system and managing user accounts. Some very useful Linux know-how.
Read MoreThe Ubuntu Linux distribution is planning to become a rolling release distribution; this would make it simpler to upgrade as the user incrementally upgrades to the next version instead of having to constantly install new versions of Ubuntu as they are released. You can edit the /etc/apt/sources.lst in Ubuntu and…
Read MoreUsing the text console in Linux Mint is very easy. Access it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1. Get back to Xorg by pressing Alt-F9. Some Linux distributions use the virtual terminal tty7 as the one reserved for Xorg, but this can vary. You may open many virtual consoles by pressing Alt-2, Alt-3,…
Read MoreHow to capture your Virtual Terminal to a png file The fbgrab application is used to screen capture the Linux frame-buffer console. Install this utility with the sudo apt-get install fbgrab command and then you may use this command to take a screen-shot of the frame-buffer console. Download the source…
Read MoreUsing the .inputrc file to control keybindings in xterm. If you wish to control the key bindings for Backspace, Delete, Home & the End keys in Xterm then read on. The ~/.inputrc file in your home directory controls this behavior, using the defines in this file you may control the…
Read MoreTo install another cool console font in Ubuntu, install this package: fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console. These fonts are quite blocky, but they are something different if you wish to try another cool font for your Linux console. Type this command to install these very lovely fonts. sudo apt-get install fonts-ubuntu-font-family-consolesudo apt-get install fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console…
Read MoreThis is very easy to do. Simply open a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install kbd-compat console-terminussudo apt-get install kbd-compat console-terminus This will install the setfont utility and a nice terminus console font. To set the desired font, type this command. The fonts will be in /usr/share/consolefonts. setfont Uni2-TerminusBold24x12.psf.gzsetfont Uni2-TerminusBold24x12.psf.gz…
Read MoreThere is a solution on this page that will help with the display of Chinese characters on the Virtual Terminal display. http://askubuntu.com/questions/25187/how-to-make-the-vt-display-chinese-characters.
Read MoreI have found out how to stop the graphical login manager and get to a plain text console in Ubuntu, you type this command as root and it will shutdown the Lightdm login manager. Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login at the text console then type the command to get rid of…
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