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How to Create Vanishing Virtual Drive
You can work with your hard drives, network drives and other external or USB storage devices accomplishing critical linux hacks. Yes, technology nowadays have enabled us to make use of larger and more stable storage capacity drives and devices. Most firms and company services enjoy the benefits of having them as part of their IT [...]
How to Convert JPG Image Files to MPG Video Files
What is Kipi? Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and Gwenview. Its aim is to share image plugins among graphic applications. Kipi is based on the old digiKam plugins implementation and is maintened by digiKam team. One binary that is part of installing [...]
How to Highlight Matching Grep Results in Linux
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 make resulting matching grep strings [...]
How to Display Lines That Starts With A Given String
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 occurrence of matching line [...]
How to Install MTR
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 connection between the current host where mtr runs on and another host by sending packets with purposely low TTLs. Mtr continues to send packets with low TTL, noting the response [...]
Converting from Windows to Linux: Hard drives NTFS to Ext3
Introduction Recently I undertaken the task to convert over to the Linux Operating System. After searching the Internet and reading through many tutorials it became clear that the NTFS File-System is not compatible with Linux other than being Read from. At least not with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Release. There in created another task for me, [...]
HowTo: Windows XP VPN Into Remote Location
Having a Secured VPN (Virtual Private Networking) server is great, especially for businesses with many offices or if you own two homes. How can you connect to these VPNs free? Well I will tell you. With Windows XP Networking you can connect to any VPN site for free and with ease. There is even a [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Evaluator’s Guide
Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Windows Internet Explorer 8 is the next version of the world’s most popular browser that optimizes developer and end-user experiences to provide a window to the Web of online services. Moreover, Internet Explorer 8 offers new features and functionality that enable customers to reach beyond the page in more [...]
How to Extremely Powerful Linux Password Sniffer
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 mentioned here and [...]
How to Convert First Letter of Dir Folder to Uppercase
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 [...]
How to Start or Stop Window Services using Batch file in Vista/XP/2003/2000
any times people forget what the services do or forget to restart the important ones. Services can be easily changed by creating batchfiles. The important commands are the following NET START – starts the serviceNET STOP – ends the service Before starting this we need to make sure which service you want to start or [...]
How to Install WordPress on Fedora9
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. If your desktop is currently being powered by Fedora, here’s a [...]