Notes, fixes and guides.
Sixteen years of working notes — Linux and networking, Django and Laravel deployment, SwiftUI, AWS. Written down mostly so I can find them again.
Search Google.com from the Linux command line
You can search Google.com from the Linux command line without using a command line web browser like lynx or Elinks.All u need is the curl and html2text packages…
Recover your Linux Root Password
Just follow the below steps to recover it.1. Reboot your system and at the GRUB press "e". Edit the first line and make sure it says "linux single".…
How to disable the blanking of screen after idle timeout in linux
You may have noticed the blanking of screen after an idle timeout. This may be annoying while you are watching a movie. So If you want to disable…
Dansguardian: Unable to getgrnam(): Success, Error opening/creating log file.
Even after you have successfully installed dansguardian in your system, you may a get an error 'Unable to getgrnam(): Success' when you try to run dansguardian.Follow these steps…
Create Custom mouse cursours(pointers) for your ubuntu
1. Open the document that contains your artwork and prepare it for conversion. Save a copy in the same folder; using a copy will let you start over…
Howto: Dual Boot Ubuntu and Windows on RAID 10
If you choose to dual boot and run both Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista, you run the risk of losing your data when a hard drive dies. To…
Make Ubuntu remember the applications you had open when you last logged out
Start from wherever you left offYou can make Ubuntu remember the applications you had open when you last logged out, so that when you log back in again…
HP printer Installation Wizard for your Linux ( Boss,Debian,Fedora, ubuntu, suse .. )
Now get the driver for your HP printer from here http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install_wizard/index.htmlSelect your distro, version, Printer Type & Model.At the bottom of this post you can see…
Increase the system wide sound (volume) in your linux (ubuntu etc..)
Here is another trick to increase the sound (soft volume) in Ubuntu Linux, this time system-wide.1. Edit your /etc/asound.conf file.On your terminal type$ sudo gedit /etc/asound.conf2. Paste the…
Browse Internet faster in Linux with Ziproxy
Ziproxy is forwarding, non-caching, compressing HTTP proxy server.Basically it squeezes images by converting them to lower quality JPEGs or JPEG 2000 and compresses (gzip) HTML and other text-like…
Increase MPlayer’s volume to 300% (linux ubuntu etc..)
You can increase your MPlayer's soft volume to 300% by just typing this simple command at terminal:mplayer -softvol -softvol-max 300 'file_name.avi'and replace file_name.avi with the video file name…
Keyboard shortcuts that you can use within terminal
You can use keyboard shortcuts and other command line tricks to make entering commands easier and faster. You might already know about the ‘tab’ key which completes partial…