This 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 MoreThis is how to list some filenames that start with letters and have some numbers in the filenames. This is a very useful Linux trick. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ ls -l [A-Z]*[0-9]*.wav -rw-rw-r– 1 jason jason 4399528 Oct 25 2017 gqrx_20171024_232212_33050000.wav -rw-rw-r– 1 jason jason 2378004 Oct 29 2017…
Read MoreThere is a simple way to dump the contents of a virtual console to a file, the screendump command is the best way to achieve this. ubuntu ~ $ sudo screendump Ubunt * Stopping System V runlevel compatibility [ OK ] u 14.0 * Starting execute cloud user/final scripts […
Read MoreUsing sed to filter a text file and change a specific character for another. In this case the ” character becomes the ‘ character using the magic of the sed command. Since I am using a character the shell also uses I have to escape it out so the command…
Read MoreGetting into some more Linux commands now; if you want to know how to find out what a symbolic link is linking to; you may use the command below to read the symbolic link and find out where it leads. [ [email protected] ] [ Jobs 0.PWD: ~.bash 4.2.36. ] […
Read MoreTo copy text to the clipboard from the Linux command line in Xorg, we need to install a nice utility called xclip. This will allow us to copy text from the terminal to the clipboard. Install xclip. jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt install xclipjason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt install xclip Then create the bash…
Read MoreThe /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections directory in Debian and Ubuntu stores files that are named after the WIFI networks you have connected to. These contain the passwords for the wireless networks that your machine has connected to. Here is a sample file. [connection] id=detportal uuid=539c7711-95ba-4f0a-8797-33d32ec779d7 type=802-11-wireless [802-11-wireless] ssid=detportal mode=infrastructure security=802-11-wireless-security [802-11-wireless-security]…
Read MoreThis code will print the contents of a file to the terminal. Feel free to use this in your own projects if you wish. #include <stdio.h> #define MEM "/proc/diskstats" int main (void) { FILE *g; char Meminfo[40]; g = fopen(MEM, "r"); if(!g) { printf ("Sorry, I cannot…
Read MoreThe Sublime text 2 editor is an amazing new text editor for Linux and Windows that will make your text editing duties much easier. Firstly, you need to add the PPA for Linux Mint 15/Ubuntu 13.04. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3 Then update the package repositories to enable the apt…
Read MoreUsing wildcards on the Linux command line This is a standard listing of files with wildcards in the bash shell. homer@deep-thought ~/Documents $ ls *.wad basenew.wad cc4-tex.wad city-heat.wad dark.wad doom.wad plutonia.wad scythe2.wad SKYTEST.wad brick.wad cchest4.wad consoleCopy.wad doom2.wad hexen.wad RIII.wad scythex.wad SODfinal.wadhomer@deep-thought ~/Documents $ ls *.wad basenew.wad cc4-tex.wad city-heat.wad dark.wad doom.wad…
Read MoreIf you want some quality themes for the Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop; then this website is perfect: http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/themes. The Cinnamon desktop is quite a stunning desktop for the Linux Mint 14 distribution; but if you want something simpler; the new MATE desktop will be better suited to you. I tried…
Read MoreThe Windows 8 launch is past and there are stories floating around that the computers running this operating system are polluted with crapware that slows down the machines and provides no real benefit. When I bought my ASUS eePC netbook; it was running Windows XP Professional with the extra ASUS…
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 MoreAfter testing out Mandrake Linux 9.2 in Virtualbox, I am amazed at how fast this Linux distribution is on modern hardware. Sure it is emulated with 512 megabytes of RAM and a 4 gigabyte hard disk in the Virtualbox machine, but 512 megabytes of memory is a lot for such…
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