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Screenshot Grabbing 12 Dec 2010 | 06:09 am
Using imagemagick imagemagick is a collection of tools and libraries for image manipulation. Most distribustions come with imagemagick . To take a snapshot using Imagemagic: import -window root scr...
Encrypt Filesystems 12 Dec 2010 | 06:05 am
If you are using modules you need to load these first: modprobe loop;modprobe cryptoloop;modprobe cipher-aes Basically you: losetup -e aes -k 256 /dev/loop0 /dev/partition You will be asked for a pa...
Screenshot Grabbing 11 Dec 2010 | 10:09 pm
Using imagemagick imagemagick is a collection of tools and libraries for image manipulation. Most distribustions come with imagemagick . To take a snapshot using Imagemagic: import -window root scr...
Kill Linux Processes with pkill 24 Oct 2010 | 07:15 pm
One of the best features in Linux is the way you can control processes from the command line, so if you have an application that locks up your GUI, you can always SSH over from another machine and jus...
Delete Files Older Than x Days 24 Oct 2010 | 07:07 pm
The find utility on linux allows you to pass in a bunch of interesting arguments, including one to execute another command on each file. We’ll use this in order to figure out what files are older than...
How to use the most popular command in Unix - Grep 24 Oct 2010 | 06:42 am
grep is by far the most popular command that exists in Unix. Though some may argue about that, but once you begin using grep, it would always be present in all your complex commands that you think of ...
Setting the PATH in linux 24 Oct 2010 | 06:38 am
This article explains how set your PATH variable under Linux. This has the same use as that of setting the PATH variable under DOS. Under Linux too, modifying the PATH would add these new directories ...
Unmount busy drives 19 Oct 2010 | 09:27 pm
You are probably all too familiar with the situation - you are trying to unmount a drive, but keep getting told by your system that it's busy. But what application is tying it up? A quick one-liner wi...
Grabbing a screenshot without X 18 Oct 2010 | 07:29 pm
There are plenty of screen-capture tools, but a lot of them are based on X. This leads to a problem when running an X application would interfere with the application you wanted to grab - perhaps a ga...
Finding the biggest files 18 Oct 2010 | 07:28 pm
A common problem with computers is when you have a number of large files (such as audio/video clips) that you may want to get rid of. You can find the biggest files in the current directory with: ls ...
