NTFS Disk Recovery

Posted by suvi under Tricks

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
NTFS Disk Recovery
Mary, the daughter of a friend is in college: her Windows XP laptop
constantly reboots and, we suspect, has a bad hard drive. The system will boot
a live CD (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Desktop), and data on the hard drive can be
read. During boot, the live CD identifies disk [...]

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Low Cost SAN

Posted by suvi under Tricks

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Low Cost SAN
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PThe objective of this document is to provide making of Low Cost SAN using FOSS tools./p
Link to the original site

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Turn off logo during boot

Posted by suvi under Linux, Tricks

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Turn off logo during boot
In Arch if you have the vga=793 (or whatever size) on your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.list, you may have the Arch Logo at the top of your screen during boot.  On vanilla or unmodified kernels, you’ll get a Tux logo.   You get one logo per processor.
Example:
Some [...]

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Weekly errata Report for YUM based machines

Posted by suvi under Tricks

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Weekly errata Report for YUM based machines
I had a request the other day at the Utah Open Source Conference to share a very small script that I have that checks for, and reports any available updates on a YUM based machine. This means CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, etc. I have been [...]

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20 Useful, Common Linux (Ubuntu) Commands for New Users

Posted by suvi under Linux, Tricks, Ubuntu

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
20 Useful, Common Linux (Ubuntu) Commands for New Users
I recently was asked by a new Ubuntu user (also involved in web, graphic design, etc.), what some of the more common day to day commands I use are.
Many of these commands can increase productivity, etc. by making things (for me at [...]

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cwrapper – a wrapper for colorizing the output of common unix commands

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New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
cwrapper – a wrapper for colorizing the output of common unix commands
cw is a non-intrusive real-time ANSI color wrapper for common unix-based commands on GNU/linux. cw is designed to simulate the environment of the commands being executed, so that if a person types ‘du’, ‘df’, ‘ping’, etc. in their [...]

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Firefox Tip: Open search results in a new tab

Posted by suvi under Browser, Tricks

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Firefox Tip: Open search results in a new tab
When you Ctrl+K to the Google search box in Firefox, type your terms and hit Enter, the results appear in your current tab – but it’s easy to make ‘em open a whole new tab so you don’t lose your current page.
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Disable Pidgin Pop-Up Notification System

Posted by suvi under Software, Tricks

I’ll admit that, so far, I’m not a big fan of the 9.04 notification system. It does remind me a lot of OS X “Growl”, but the lack of customization options make it frustrating at times. I do hope that the developers continue to improve on the system as I think it could be a [...]

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Get Thunderbird to minimizing to tray instead of closing

Posted by suvi under Software, Tricks

One of the first set of things i do when i install a fresh (k)ubuntu is change the default email client. Both evolution (ubuntu) and kmail (kubuntu) don’t just cut it for me, they always seem bloated and buggy. I am a KISS guy -not that kiss (fine am that kiss too but the kiss [...]

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Create an autostartup script for Debian and Ubuntu systems

Posted by suvi under Debian, Tricks, Ubuntu

In Debian-based distributions (and here I’m also talking about the widely-spread Ubuntu), there is no rc.local file preinstalled. The good thing is that you can make one easily so you can have a place to put commands to be started up automatically at boot. Here’s what you have to do:
sudo nano /etc/init.d/local.autostart
You can name the [...]

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Anonymous SSH sessions with TOR

Posted by suvi under Networking, Security, Tricks

OpenSSH is a great means to protect your connection from being sniffed by others. However, this isn’t always enough. Simply proving that you connected to a server is enough to get incriminated. Unfortunately, SSH doesn’t provide a native way to obfuscate to whom it connects. Instead, a proxy server can be set up. And this [...]

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Find files that are older than X years using Linux

Posted by suvi under Tricks

If you want to find out what files are older than – let’s say – ten years and still residing on your hard drive, do a
cd /
find . -mtime +3650
This will search for such files on all your Linux partition and display them in verbose mode at the end of the search. In this [...]

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5 Simple APT Tips for Debian and Ubuntu, Part II

Posted by suvi under Tricks, Ubuntu

Several months ago I created an article with 5 APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) tips for both Debian and Ubuntu available here. APT is the package manager in Debian and Debian-based distributions, like Ubuntu. Here’s part two of that article, with 5 more tips and tricks for APT.
Notice: I specified which commands need root privileges. In [...]

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20 Useful, Common Linux (Ubuntu) Commands for New Users

Posted by suvi under Tricks

I recently was asked by a new Ubuntu user (also involved in web, graphic design, etc.), what some of the more common day to day commands I use are.
Many of these commands can increase productivity, etc. by making things (for me at least), easier to do. My system desktop has a transparent terminal integrated into
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Command Aliases in Unix shells

Posted by suvi under Tricks

One of the really useful features almost every Unix shell has is support for command aliases – a way to run a command or a series of Unix commands using a shorter name you get associated with such commands.
An example of a command alias in Unix shell
Here’s one of the most useful aliases I have [...]

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