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HowTo: Extremely Powerful Linux Password Sniffer 2008-03-04 09:05:00 Password Sniffer on Linux
?
Yep, we all need to be informed of passwords being sniffed out! I would not entail those details and cover specific issues of identifying your network securities as that would be large enough to be covered here and case to case basis.
However, those two words are being...
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HowTo: Identify Your Linux Shells 2008-03-03 00:56:00 I have seen site visitors searching for linux tips on determining their current linux shell the system's default shells.
Identifying Linux
Default Shell
Here are few quick tips on determining and identifying your current shell.
To know which shell type your current user is logged on to or which...
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HowTo: Recover Missing Portmap on Fedora 8 2008-03-01 02:47:00 Are these lines familiar to you?
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# service portmap status
portmap: unrecognized service
# service nfs start
Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
rpc.rquotad: unable to register (RQUOTAPROG,...
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HowTo: Extract Lines That Started With Matching String Using Grep 2008-02-28 10:38:00 From recent post of displaying the first occurrence of line that starts with a specified matching string, now instead of the first occurrence, here's a way of stripping out all matching lines that start with the given matching string.
Reproducable Approach
Say for example, we have a text file with...
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HowTo: Delete All Thumbs.db Recursively 2008-02-28 04:50:00 An offline messages just arrive from a fedora newbie trying to polish more of his FTP administration skills.
After quite some time of establishing his fully functional FTP server via VSFTP, he then realized that most of their staff with windows-based desktops usually Selects ALL files, Copy and...
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HowTo: Handy Linux Network Diagnostic Tool 2008-02-27 16:13:00 I should have posted this handy linux command long time ago, which was also mentioned from this link, but not explicitly eloborated.
What is MTR?
Mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
Mtr, when issued, investigates the network...
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HowTo: Display Lines That Starts With A Given String 2008-02-26 15:52:00 Matching strings can be counted using grep, cat, sed. Matching strings can be sorted and even omitted for matching repetitions using sort and uniq. They can also be highlighted during the string parsing operation via grep. More can be done using awk. But have you ever tried to display the first...
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HowTo: Find And Count JPG Files Recursively 2008-02-26 02:01:00 I have been busy playing around with more than 100,000 images and JPG files from my hard drive and I just realized that I was issuing a few set of commands redundantly specially on counting the number of images from categorical 'named' folders alone and from its sub 'event-folders'...
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HowTo: Do Awk with Loop 2008-02-25 03:04:00 From recent posts, we have tried to remove the first word by statically specifying the matching string fields using awk and cut.
What if we need to remove the first word but retain the 2nd word up to Nth word of a line from a text file?
Here's a real quick and easy of dynamically looping awk to...
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HowTo: Strip Out First Word of Line from Text Files 2008-02-24 02:23:00 This is a quick post on how to remove the first word of a line.
There are lot of ways on how to remove and strip out the first word of a line from a text file. Here's one way to achieve that.
# cat testfile.txt
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, First
HowTo: Highlight Matching Grep Results 2008-02-23 04:53:00 Here's a quick entry on how to have a highlighted and colored text from grep resulting strings and characters.
Assuming we have /var/log/maillog and we wish to grep it with multiple search strings. Well this would be faily simply
# cat /var/log/secure | grep 'Accept\|refuse'
What if we want to...
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HowTo: GNOME Commander File Manager 2008-02-22 04:00:00 GNOME Commander
is a nice and fast file manager for the GNOME desktop. In addition to performing the basic file manager functions, this feature-riched file manager program is also a FTP-client software at the same time. GNOME Commander can also browse shared SMB-networks or SMB-drive.
GNOME...
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HowTo: Install Plone CMS on Fedora 2008-02-21 02:27:00 From recent Wordpress installation on Fedora
system, here's another quick installation howto of Plone - a content management system (CMS) on Fedora system
What is Plone?
Plone is a user friendly and powerful content management system based on Zope. Plone is easy to use, translated into over 35...
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HowTo: Thumbnail A Website From Linux Command Terminal 2008-02-21 01:17:00 Blogging from Wordpress platform enables a blogger to incorporate and activate snapshot plugin where a blogger create on-demand URL snap shots of their websites.
If you are looking for HTML site thumbnailer software available from Linux
command lin, read on.
Here's how to create a thumbnail...
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HowTo: Advanced Two-Pane File Manager 2008-02-19 01:11:00 Have you read the last post of having a two-pane GUI file manager from your desktop linux? Well, here's another round of a much more advanced two-pane file manager.
What is Krusader
Krusader is the result of a 7-year old programming and discussion colloboration of opensource developer to come up...
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HowTo: Two-Pane GUI File Manager 2008-02-18 07:15:00 Implementing a two-pane with GNOME File manager is still under review as an additional nautilus file manager feature. Having a two-pane file manager offers better flexibility, convenience and usability of file management and directory operations, which is unbeatable by any customized shell...
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Slash Proc - File System Utilities 2008-02-12 07:36:00 One of the commonly used linux terminal commands are mostly the linux system and monitoring linux tools. Everybody who has been with linux for quite long time, knows that there are lots of built-in linux monitoring tools that comes free and handy from default linux OS installation.
One package...
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HowTo: Drop Down Linux Terminal Console 2008-02-12 07:12:00 Are you looking for alternative linux terminal console that offers quite new terminal convenient features?
Here's an alternative linux tool that is available is also available from Fedora repos.
Yakuake - Yet Another Linux
Terminal Console
Yakuake, one of the alternative KDE-based linux tool, is...
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HowTo: Image Magics with ImageMagick 2008-02-09 02:44:00 ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed...
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HowTo: Convert JPG Image Files to MPG Video Files 2008-02-09 02:25:00 That title is very catchy. Yes, this entry aims to convert a few JPG image files and merged them into one MPG video file using a small handy linux tool. Read on.
What is Kipi?
Kipi (KDE Image
Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and...
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HowTo: Alternative Way to Convert GIF to PNG 2008-02-09 02:15:00 Here's an entry on how to convert multiple GIF files into PNG file format from terminal.
There are many ways on converting GIF files to PNG file format. One of them is using a command-line driven gif2png GIF-PNG file image converter.
Description:
The gif2png program converts files from the...
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, Alternative
HowTo: Lock X While Root With ScreenSaver 2008-02-09 01:50:00 Screensaver desktop preferences prevents your screen from being locked using screensaver.
Here's an alternative way of having a screensaver lock your screen while root. Read on.
By default, under System > Preferences > Look and Feel > ScreenSaver preferences does not allow locking of...
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HowTo: Encrypted Bandwidth-Efficient Linux Backup Powered by Duplicity 2008-02-05 09:32:00 If you are looking for another backup linux utility that supports GnuPG encryption mechanism over file and folder data backup and transfer, read on.
Duplicity backs up directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses...
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, Bandwidth
HowTo: Install Java IcedTea on Fedora 8 2008-02-05 08:14:00 There a lot of java-enabled websites around the globe when visited, checks for specific java version from end users' browser. Most banking institutions does this. Disappointment comes along if you don't have any java package from your Fedora
box.
If you are using Fedora and you wish to install the...
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HowTo: Simultaneous Install of Sun Java and Java IcedTea on Fedora 2008-02-05 07:57:00 From Fedora
OS, if you were trying to issue
# java -version
and it is giving you the below similar output
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java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software...
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HowTo: Lightning Speed Big Claws 2008-03-12 07:46:00 Who gets tired of Thunderbird and Evolution mail client software? How about, "You've Got Claws
Mail!"
Do you want to try a new GTK+-based lightweight but heavy duty email client for linux?
Let's give Claws a shot.
What is Claws?
Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+,...
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HowTo: Convert First Letter of Text Line to Uppercase 2008-03-11 06:19:00 Real quick and easy, I just need to drop it here as I was using it most of the times handling tens of thousand keyword text files.
If you need to convert the first letter of the word or first letter of a text line to its uppercase, read on.
Here's how to convert the first letter of a word from...
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, First
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HowTo: Automatically Change your Fedora Desktop Wallpaper 2008-03-06 05:12:00 How to selectively change your desktop wallpaper automatically?
How to automatically change your desktop wallpaper every N minutes?
How to add wallpaper management program into your linux desktop?
How to add wallpaper panel into your GNOME panel?
Here's a quick post of how to have a wallpaper tray...
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HowTo: Convert First Letter of Dir Folder to Uppercase 2008-03-13 09:12:00 Well, if we can convert the first letter of each lines from a text file, we can use the same approach to convert the first letter of a directory or folder name to its uppercase as well, simply add the linux mv command.
If you have hundreds of directory name in one location that starts their...
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HowTo: Motion Picture Linux Paint and Retouching Tool 2008-03-26 02:52:00 Have you been told that Holywood uses Linux
tools and software too? Do you know one? Read on.
CinePaint
is a painting and retouching tool primarily used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching and dust-busting. CinePaint was used on THE LAST SAMURAI, HARRY POTTER and many other films. From...
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