Сталкер 2 developers are wasting time on obscure codes instead of actually developing a worthwhile game. This is quite concerning, they could have a basic skeleton of a game and some artwork to show, but no, the stupid 2.0.2.1 code they are showing is very strange, why not tell us…
Read MoreThe sudo systemctl status command will show a tree view of all running processes on your Linux machine. This is quite comprehensive and very useful output. Here is a sample. 4.4 Mon Mar 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ sudo systemctl status ● Yog-Sothoth State: running Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 0 units…
Read MoreTo print a listing of all environment variables in the Linux terminal or VT, use the printenv command, this prints the environment to the terminal. deusexmachina:~ jason$ printenv TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm-256color TMPDIR=/var/folders/8n/777bpxj118j6690m3s7lypqw0000gn/T/ Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.zKtQPi5TVv/Render TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=421.1 TERM_SESSION_ID=6D73ABAB-FA6D-4AEF-9885-768BC4D18F9B USER=jason SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.19fMX85EE3/Listeners PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Public:/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS PWD=/Users/jason LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 XPC_FLAGS=0x0 XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0 SHLVL=1 HOME=/Users/jason LOGNAME=jason _=/usr/bin/printenvdeusexmachina:~ jason$ printenv TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal…
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 MoreHow to get just the PID of a running process. There are a couple of very useful ways to get the Process ID of a running process. This is a way using grep and awk. This prints multiple numbers if there are multiple related processes running, like the Apache2 server…
Read MoreGet information about apps installed on your Macintosh PC with the lsappinfo command. Use grep as shown below to find out information about a certain app, i.e Firefox in this case. deusexmachina:~ jason$ lsappinfo | grep Firefox 24) "Firefox" ASN:0x0-0x2a02a: bundle path="/Applications/Firefox.app" executable path="/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox" 26) "FirefoxCP WebExtensions" ASN:0x0-0x2c02c: bundle path="/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app"…
Read MoreTo get information about Linux users with the shell, give these examples a go. Get a listing of all /home folders on Linux. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents$ sudo gawk -F: ‘{ print $6 }’ /etc/passwd | grep /home /home/syslog /home/jason /home/justin /home/danieljason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents$ sudo gawk -F: ‘{ print $6 }’ /etc/passwd | grep /home…
Read MoreHow to stop and remove the gvfs-metadata service on your Ubuntu system The gvfs system that comes with the Gnome and MATE desktops also saves metadata about the users web download history. This is interesting, I thought only Firefox saved your download history, but gvfs saves this too. Use this…
Read MoreGet Linux system information To get good Linux system information, use these simple utilities. 1. Screenfetch. Install screenfetch. jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt install screenfetchjason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt install screenfetch Then run it to get information about your PC. jason@jason-desktop:~$ screenfetch ./+o+- jason@jason-desktop yyyyy- -yyyyyy+ OS: Ubuntu 17.04 zesty ://+//////-yyyyyyo Kernel: x86_64 Linux…
Read MoreGet your Internet routable IP address with the command line. [jason@localhost ~]$ curl ‘https://api.ipify.org’ ; echo[jason@localhost ~]$ curl ‘https://api.ipify.org’ ; echo Get the startup time of your Linux PC with Systemd. [jason@localhost ~]$ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 1.186s (kernel) + 9.653s (initrd) + 2min 37.144s (userspace) = 2min 47.984s[jason@localhost ~]$…
Read MoreFind out useful system information with the command line Find out what day Easter is? Use this useful command. ubuntu ~ $ ncal -e March 27 2016ubuntu ~ $ ncal -e March 27 2016 Display the date of Easter for Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches. ubuntu ~ $ ncal -o…
Read MoreVery useful Linux commands Another way to get the uptime of the system. awk ‘{printf("Uptime: %d:%02d days, %02d minutes, %02d seconds.\n",($1/60/60/24),($1/60/60%24),($1/60%60),($1%60))}’ /proc/uptimeawk ‘{printf("Uptime: %d:%02d days, %02d minutes, %02d seconds.\n",($1/60/60/24),($1/60/60%24),($1/60%60),($1%60))}’ /proc/uptime Find the actual device name of the drive that contains your root partition. ip-172-31-20-16:~> findmnt -n -o SOURCE / /dev/xvda1ip-172-31-20-16:~>…
Read MoreThe ethtool utility for Linux is very good at getting information about your Ethernet adapter. Below is the standard information that is available concerning the basic abilities of the Ethernet adapter. localhost% ethtool enp0s25 Settings for enp0s25: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full…
Read MoreThe type command for bash will tell you whether a command is a shell built-in or an executable on it`s own. This is very simple to use. This example shows how it works. jason@DESKTOP-G1QN8C6:~$ type -a echo echo is a shell builtin echo is /bin/echojason@DESKTOP-G1QN8C6:~$ type -a echo echo is…
Read MoreThe smartmontools package for Debian allows the user to get comprehensive hard disk information. This is useful if the hard disk drive is behaving strangely. This might mean it is failing. Install the smartmontools package. root@neo:/home/jason# apt install smartmontoolsroot@neo:/home/jason# apt install smartmontools Now you may check your hard disk drive…
Read MoreThis useful command will display a count of all installed packages on your Debian Linux machine. jason@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-query -l | wc -l 2027jason@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-query -l | wc -l 2027 Grepping the output to find certain packages. jason@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-query -l | grep vim ii vim-common 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3 amd64 Vi IMproved – Common…
Read MoreList all network interfaces on your Linux machine that are up. [jason@localhost ~]$ ip addr | grep UP 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 2: eno16777736: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP qlen 1000 3: virbr0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN[jason@localhost ~]$ ip addr…
Read MoreWhile running Linux, if you want to list the contents of a folder in a vertical list format, just use the ls command with these switches. jason@ubuntu:~$ ls -luh –color=yes total 48K drwxr-xr-x 2 jason jason 4.0K Dec 15 03:03 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 jason jason 4.0K Nov 29 17:00 Documents…
Read MoreThere are a few commands available in Red Hat Linux to get information about your network adapter. Here are a couple. The ifstat command returns information about the network throughput of your adapter. [jason@darknet ~]$ ifstat #kernel Interface RX Pkts/Rate TX Pkts/Rate RX Data/Rate TX Data/Rate RX Errs/Drop TX Errs/Drop…
Read MoreThe hwinfo command for Linux will allow the user to get hardware information from the command line. Type sudo apt-get install hwinfo to install this command. It will be installed in the /sbin directory and therefore, you will need superuser privileges to execute this command and get the hardware information….
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