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I think everybody faced automatic filesystem checking invoked after it was mounted some certain number of times. It happens for me after 20 mounts of root filesystem with my Ubuntu Feisty (as well as any other distros that were installed), next time I boot up… Read More »Set up mount count after system will be checked by e2fsck
Sometimes it would be useful to print file contents or output of previously executed command in reverse. There are two little utilities that are part of Linux coreutils: tac and rev. TAC concatenates and prints files in reverse (last line first). REV reverses lines of… Read More »Print files in reverse with coreutils ‘tac’ and ‘rev’ commands
MTR is a tool that combines the Unix/Linux traceroute and ping programs functionality in a single network diagnostic tool. As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and certain HOSTNAME by sending packets with purposly low TTLs. It… Read More »Combined traceroute and ping utility (mtr)
Here is list of some useful resources regarding OpenBSD Packet Filter: PF User’s Guide by by Wouter Coene NAT with pf by Jacek Artymiak Securing Small Networks with OpenBSD by Jacek Artymiak Firewalling with PF by Peter N. M. Hansteen (norwegian version, pdf, and slides… Read More »BSD Packet Filter (pf) resources
Few will deny that applications allowing to create notes at Linux Desktop are very useful to plan one’s working/education process. As for me I use such applications in order not to forget something I want to do 🙂 like blog posts came to my mind… Read More »Review of sticky notes applications for GNOME
There are many ways to transmit files between computers over the heterogeneous network (Linux, Windows, Apple MAC and other systems). I used to run SCP for my every day administrative tasks, especially when client SCP utility is available for Windows too. But here is useful… Read More »Simple way to transmit files over network (nc utility)
Here you can vote for Linux distribution (or Unix) to be pre-installed at Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks. As usually Ubuntu is the most popular distribution, Debian is second, Fedora is third: Please note: it’s not a full list of suggested distros at the screen.
Q: I can’t see flash content at various sites like youtube.com when I visit them through newly installed Firefox browser.. How can I install Flash Player in Firefox under Ubuntu? A: It is easy in most situations, so close all Firefox instances and run the… Read More »FAQ: How to install Flash Player for Firefox in Ubuntu Linux?
VideoDownloader is the a service that allows to download online video from YouTube, Google Video, iFilm and MANY other into FLV files. Saved files can be easily converted into different video formats by the following online video converters (some of them allows to save and… Read More »Download and convert YouTube video online and offline
There are two solutions to perform video conferencing between two completely different operating systems Linux and Windows: they are OpenWengo project and Ekiga.org. Both provide client software for Linux and Windows. OpenWengo project also offers client for Mac OS X. OpenWengo is a community of… Read More »Video conference between Linux and Windows users
