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| HowTo: Install YouTube Video Download in Fedora |
| 2008-05-06 02:08:00 |
This quick post should have been here since but I keep on forgetting about this quick howto.
Download Videos from Youtube from Fedora box
Tired of watching and browsing the same old video files from Youtube? Do you wish to collect Youtube video clips of your favorite video files from youtube?...
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| HowTo: Install FFMpeg on Fedora Linux |
| 2008-05-05 02:36:00 |
FFMpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. FFMpeg can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash.
FFmpeg can generate a lot of...
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| HowTo: Powerful Metric and Units Linux Conversion Tool |
| 2008-04-30 08:18:00 |
Does a scientific calculator scares you or your visitor aways from your seat? An online metric conversion site is miles away from your linux desktop internet connection? Worry not, here's a quick tip on how to have an offline metric conversion linux tool that could help most metric and scientific...
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| HowTo: Prevent Non-Root From Rebooting/Shutting Down The System |
| 2008-04-29 06:12:00 |
Have you experienced a scenario where your users make use of reboot or halt command? Did somebody user just reboot your own server? Do you want to prevent your users from shutting down your linux box or even rebooting it?
Here's a quick entry on how to prevent users from rebooting or shutting down...
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| HowTo: UDP Connectivity Host Test |
| 2008-04-29 04:46:00 |
Are you wondering how would you be able to test and probe a port that listens for UDP connections? Or how would you test a listening UDP port?
How to test a listening UDP port
If you have managed to create a daemonized service that opens port for UDP connections, here's how to test that listening...
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| HowTo: Secure SSH by Disabling Root Logins |
| 2008-04-29 04:35:00 |
Securing SSH is one major thing on server boxes regardless of server location. Here's one quick tip of adding security to your SSH connection by disabling any root logins.
How to secure SSH by disabling root logins?
To disable direct root logins, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and replace this...
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| HowTo: Retrieve Current Latitude and Longtitude from Linux |
| 2008-04-29 04:23:00 |
Do you know your exact zone longitude and latitude coordinates? Knowing your current zone coordinates won't hurt a bit. Here's how to retrieve latitude and longitude coordinates inside your linux box via terminal.
To pinpoint your latitude and longitude of your current location from your Fedora...
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| HowTo: Install Wallpapoz |
| 2008-04-18 09:39:00 |
What is Wallpapoz?
Wallpapoz application enables you to configure Gnome desktop wallpapers in unique way. You could have Gnome desktop wallpaper changes when the specified time has passed. The most important feature is you could have Gnome desktop wallpaper changes when you change workspace. This...
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| HowTo: Join Two Text Files with Common Columnar Field via Terminal |
| 2008-04-18 04:27:00 |
From my recent post, we have covered to merge data contents two text files without a common columnar field. We have also covered joining two text files into one text file separated by a delimiter character. Now, from this post, we are going to go thru merging two text files with a common columnar...
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| HowTo: Copy and Paste A Text File into Another Text File via Terminal |
| 2008-04-16 03:49:00 |
Yes, you read correct. This time around, we are going to paste data content of one text file into another text file and we are going to approach this issue using linux command via terminal. This one could be easily done inside X or GNOME, but let us assume we are going to do it from a linux system...
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| HowTo: Install Ioncube PHP Encoder/Decoder |
| 2008-04-12 03:19:00 |
Are you a PHP geek coder by profession or by hobby? Do you ever wish to hide your PHP source codes but still sell it to the market without even buyers having to view your PHP source codes?
If your intention is to hide PHP codes of your work and still distribute it, read on.
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| HowTo: Identify your IPv4/IPv6 Loopback Address |
| 2008-04-02 02:17:00 |
Most likely, administrators are familiar with IPv4 and IPv6 loop back address. The need to identify and reach IPv4/IPv6 loop back IP addresses remains basic but a need to know knowledge.
Here's a quick entry on how to identify IPv4/IPv6 loop back address status. Read on.
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| HowTo: Get Disk, Partition And Folder Space Usage |
| 2008-04-01 06:05:00 |
Quick and brief.
Here's a swift blog entry on how to retrieve and get disk usage of the following items:
a. directory folder
b. mounted disk partition
c. disk
To get the disk usage of a folder and return a human readable summarized usage
# du -sh /folder1
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| Shell: Shortcut To Last Command Line Argument |
| 2008-03-31 01:57:00 |
Have you noticed at times that you have been entering same command line parameter over and over again during a certain portion of your shell works?
Have you ever been tired of entering the last command line argument over and over again?
Here's a quick and simple short tip on how to execute...
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| HowTo: Motion Picture Linux Paint and Retouching Tool |
| 2008-03-26 02:52:00 |
Have you been told that Holywood uses Linux tools and software too? Do you know one? Read on.
CinePaint is a painting and retouching tool primarily used for Picture">motion picture frame-by-frame retouching and dust-busting. CinePaint was used on THE LAST SAMURAI, HARRY POTTER and many other films. From...
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| HowTo: Convert First Letter of Dir Folder to Uppercase |
| 2008-03-13 09:12:00 |
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 their...
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| HowTo: Lightning Speed Big Claws |
| 2008-03-12 07:46:00 |
Who gets tired of Thunderbird and Evolution mail client software? How about, "You've Got Claws Mail!"
Do you want to try a new GTK+-based lightweight but heavy duty email client for linux?
Let's give Claws a shot.
What is Claws?
Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+,...
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| HowTo: Convert First Letter of Text Line to Uppercase |
| 2008-03-11 06:19:00 |
Real quick and easy, I just need to drop it here as I was using it most of the times handling tens of thousand keyword text files.
If you need to convert the first letter of the word or first letter of a text line to its uppercase, read on.
Here's how to convert the first letter of a word from...
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| HowTo: Automatically Change your Fedora Desktop Wallpaper |
| 2008-03-06 05:12:00 |
How to selectively change your desktop wallpaper automatically?
How to automatically change your desktop wallpaper every N minutes?
How to add wallpaper management program into your linux desktop?
How to add wallpaper panel into your GNOME panel?
Here's a quick post of how to have a wallpaper tray...
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| HowTo: Extremely Powerful Linux Password Sniffer |
| 2008-03-04 09:05:00 |
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...
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| HowTo: Identify Your Linux Shells |
| 2008-03-03 00:56:00 |
I have seen site visitors searching for linux tips on determining their current linux shell the system's default shells.
Identifying Linux Default Shell
Here are few quick tips on determining and identifying your current shell.
To know which shell type your current user is logged on to or which...
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| HowTo: Recover Missing Portmap on Fedora 8 |
| 2008-03-01 02:47:00 |
Are these lines familiar to you?
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# service portmap status
portmap: unrecognized service
# service nfs start
Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
rpc.rquotad: unable to register (RQUOTAPROG,...
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| HowTo: Extract Lines That Started With Matching String Using Grep |
| 2008-02-28 10:38:00 |
From recent post of displaying the first occurrence of line that starts with a specified matching string, now instead of the first occurrence, here's a way of stripping out all matching lines that start with the given matching string.
Reproducable Approach
Say for example, we have a text file with...
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| HowTo: Delete All Thumbs.db Recursively |
| 2008-02-28 04:50:00 |
An offline messages just arrive from a fedora newbie trying to polish more of his FTP administration skills.
After quite some time of establishing his fully functional FTP server via VSFTP, he then realized that most of their staff with windows-based desktops usually Selects ALL files, Copy and...
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| HowTo: Handy Linux Network Diagnostic Tool |
| 2008-02-27 16:13:00 |
I should have posted this handy linux command long time ago, which was also mentioned from this link, but not explicitly eloborated.
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...
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| HowTo: Display Lines That Starts With A Given String |
| 2008-02-26 15:52:00 |
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...
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| HowTo: Find And Count JPG Files Recursively |
| 2008-02-26 02:01:00 |
I have been busy playing around with more than 100,000 images and JPG files from my hard drive and I just realized that I was issuing a few set of commands redundantly specially on counting the number of images from categorical 'named' folders alone and from its sub 'event-folders'...
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| HowTo: Do Awk with Loop |
| 2008-02-25 03:04:00 |
From recent posts, we have tried to remove the first word by statically specifying the matching string fields using awk and cut.
What if we need to remove the first word but retain the 2nd word up to Nth word of a line from a text file?
Here's a real quick and easy of dynamically looping awk to...
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| HowTo: Strip Out First Word of Line from Text Files |
| 2008-02-24 02:23:00 |
This is a quick post on how to remove the first word of a line.
There are lot of ways on how to remove and strip out the first word of a line from a text file. Here's one way to achieve that.
# cat testfile.txt
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| HowTo: Highlight Matching Grep Results |
| 2008-02-23 04:53:00 |
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'
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| HowTo: GNOME Commander File Manager |
| 2008-02-22 04:00:00 |
GNOME Commander is a nice and fast file manager for the GNOME desktop. In addition to performing the basic file manager functions, this feature-riched file manager program is also a FTP-client software at the same time. GNOME Commander can also browse shared SMB-networks or SMB-drive.
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| HowTo: Install Plone CMS on Fedora |
| 2008-02-21 02:27:00 |
From recent Wordpress installation on Fedora system, here's another quick installation howto of Plone - a content management system (CMS) on Fedora system
What is Plone?
Plone is a user friendly and powerful content management system based on Zope. Plone is easy to use, translated into over 35...
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| HowTo: Thumbnail A Website From Linux Command Terminal |
| 2008-02-21 01:17:00 |
Blogging from Wordpress platform enables a blogger to incorporate and activate snapshot plugin where a blogger create on-demand URL snap shots of their websites.
If you are looking for HTML site thumbnailer software available from Linux command lin, read on.
Here's how to create a thumbnail...
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| HowTo: Advanced Two-Pane File Manager |
| 2008-02-19 01:11:00 |
Have you read the last post of having a two-pane GUI file manager from your desktop linux? Well, here's another round of a much more advanced two-pane file manager.
What is Krusader
Krusader is the result of a 7-year old programming and discussion colloboration of opensource developer to come up...
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| HowTo: Two-Pane GUI File Manager |
| 2008-02-18 07:15:00 |
Implementing a two-pane with GNOME File manager is still under review as an additional nautilus file manager feature. Having a two-pane file manager offers better flexibility, convenience and usability of file management and directory operations, which is unbeatable by any customized shell...
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| Slash Proc - File System Utilities |
| 2008-02-12 07:36:00 |
One of the commonly used linux terminal commands are mostly the linux system and monitoring linux tools. Everybody who has been with linux for quite long time, knows that there are lots of built-in linux monitoring tools that comes free and handy from default linux OS installation.
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| HowTo: Drop Down Linux Terminal Console |
| 2008-02-12 07:12:00 |
Are you looking for alternative linux terminal console that offers quite new terminal convenient features?
Here's an alternative linux tool that is available is also available from Fedora repos.
Yakuake - Yet Another Linux Terminal Console
Yakuake, one of the alternative KDE-based linux tool, is...
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| HowTo: Image Magics with ImageMagick |
| 2008-02-09 02:44:00 |
ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed...
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| HowTo: Convert JPG Image Files to MPG Video Files |
| 2008-02-09 02:25:00 |
That title is very catchy. Yes, this entry aims to convert a few JPG image files and merged them into one MPG video file using a small handy linux tool. Read on.
What is Kipi?
Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and...
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| HowTo: Alternative Way to Convert GIF to PNG |
| 2008-02-09 02:15:00 |
Here's an entry on how to convert multiple GIF files into PNG file format from terminal.
There are many ways on converting GIF files to PNG file format. One of them is using a command-line driven gif2png GIF-PNG file image converter.
Description:
The gif2png program converts files from the...
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