Showing posts with label how-to. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how-to. Show all posts

2010-02-03

64 Things Every Geek Should Know

With instructions on how to do all those things.

2008-09-24

Install VLC media player 0.9.2 in Ubuntu

eCryptfs PAM-based Mount

eCryptfs can be set up to automatically mount on user login. The
default mount is an overlay mount on top of ~/Confidential/, and it
uses a passphrase-based key.


(from Lifehacker.com -> Tombuntu -> Dustin Kirkland)

2008-07-24

Using Adobe Flash and other 32-bit applications on 64-bit Linux

Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins

Featuring:

  • Unmounting the unresponsive DVD drive (fuser);
  • Getting your screen back when it's hosed (reset);
  • Collaboration with screen;
  • Getting back the root password (booting up in single-user mode);
  • SSH back door;
  • Remote VNC session through an SSH tunnel;
  • Checking your bandwidth (iperf);
  • Command-line scripting and utilities (for loops, pipes);
  • Spying on the console (cat /dev/vcsX);
  • Random system information collection;


(From Linux.com)

2008-04-22