This theme I found is a very nice GTK theme for your Linux machine. This themes your desktop computer to look like Windows 7 basic. With a non-transparent Windows 7 styled GTK look and Window borders. Download the theme here. https://codeload.github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-7/zip/2.1. This is what this theme looks like. It is…
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Read MoreGoogle Dorks can be very useful for finding user information posted online. This Google Dork will find logfiles and other things with usernames and passwords posted online. allintext:username filetype:logallintext:username filetype:log This will find putty information including server hostnames as well as usernames. A very good starting point. ext:reg “username=*” puttyext:reg…
Read MoreGtf is a utility for calculating VESA GTF modes. Given the desired horizontal and vertical resolutions and refresh rate (in Hz), the parameters for a matching VESA GTF mode are printed out. Two output formats are supported: mode lines suitable for the Xorg xorg.conf(5) file, and mode parameters suitable for…
Read MoreThere are many ways to get networking information on your Linux computer. This is how to return the active network interface(s) on your Linux system. 4.4 Mon Jun 22 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ip addr | awk '/state UP/ {print $2}' | sed 's/.$//' enp0s25 Combining this command with another using…
Read MoreThis is very easy to do. Get comprehensive hardware information about your desktop computer with a simple script. This is available to install for newer Ubuntu releases, but for those of us using an LTS release, the script may be downloaded from this page. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hw-probe/1.5-1. Unpack the tarball and then…
Read MoreThere is a very nice new Linux distribution that comes with a huge amount of software. It is called PsychOS, this is intended for older machines. The kernel is compiled for a 686 CPU architecture instead of x86_64, but it would be perfect to bring an old Pentium 4 back…
Read MoreIt is very easy on Linux to find out very useful networking details. The netdiscover utility will display a listing of all hosts on your local network. This would be very useful if run on a wireless network that does not have host isolation enabled. This can help you find…
Read MoreThere is an easy way to listen to Sydney radio stations over the Internet on Linux. Use the mpv media player. This can stream the radio stations with no effort. Copy the listing of radio stations to your terminal like this. 4.4 Mon Jun 08 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ wget -O-…
Read MoreI have just upgraded to a 5.3 kernel on Ubuntu, and it is very good to use. I tried the newest 4.15 kernel and my sound hardware was not detected, so I installed the 5.3 kernel instead. This is a great improvement. Removing the snapd service was a good way…
Read MoreGetting information about your CPU on Linux is very easy. There are many ways to do this. The cpufreq app is one good way to get the current CPU frequency. 4.4 Thu Jun 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cpufreq-info -f -m 988 MHz4.4 Thu Jun 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cpufreq-info -f…
Read MoreTo start the SSH server on a Venom Linux machine, use this command. bash-5.0# /usr/sbin/sshdbash-5.0# /usr/sbin/sshd This will start up the SSH server and then you may connect over SSH to your machine. Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and make these changes to allow the SSH server to run and allow…
Read MoreListing the installed files for packages installed for Venom Linux is very easy. The scratch command will do this just fine. $ scratch files nano1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26…
Read MoreThis addition to your .bashrc file will give you a very nice shell prompt and colorful output of the ls command. This looks very stylish indeed. # set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below) if [ -z "${debian_chroot:-}" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ];…
Read MoreThere is a very nice Linux distribution available. This is called Venom Linux. This is very fast to boot after installation. In my VMWare instance, it booted in a couple of seconds after pressing enter at the boot screen. This is a live CD distribution with MATE, XFce 4, Lxde…
Read MoreThis very simple .reg file will disable the caps lock key on your Windows machine. This will make typing less annoying when using the keyboard. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00 Always back up your registry before using…
Read MoreThe Windows 10 operating system will soon have the ability to run GUI Linux apps on the Windows desktop. Is Microsoft trying to replace Linux installations with Windows 10? That would be very interesting. But there is already a Windows version of GIMP, this would imply that they want to…
Read MoreThe grep utility is very useful for searching for text in files on a Linux system. It is possible to search for text or files recursively. This is very easy to do. This example is how to search for a text string recursively with grep. I have double quotes in…
Read MoreThe dpkg command can be used to list all installed packages. I wanted to list the language packs installed with Firefox. So the command below is perfect. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ dpkg –list firefox-locale-* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============================-====================-====================-================================================================== ii firefox-locale-de 75.0+build3-0ubuntu0 amd64 German language…
Read MoreThere is a very nice theme and icon pack I found that can make your Linux desktop look like Microsoft Windows `95. This is a nice change from modern icon packs. The old icons are very nice looking theme and is good for those of you who miss the old…
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