29/09/2018
I tried upgrading Ubuntu to the 18.10 Beta Friday night, all seemed to go well except for when I tried to reboot the desktop wouldn’t load. Tired of looking for a solution I tried installing Manjaro from an iso I have as a working Virtual Box, but each time I tried from a USB I was told corrupt / incomplete file, WTF! So I downloaded it again, check the hash,…
09/09/2018
I knew I’d heard of searching Google from the terminal before, but I try to use Duck Duck Go whenever possible, banging Start Page then Google if DDG doesn’t give me what I need; which is getting less frequent So a search result yesterday returned this awesome useful terminal function DDGR Github with details and destructions found here: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr Features Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), custom…
09/09/2018
I found this simple guide to update the linux kernel, as I’d tried UKUU with no success, as it couldn’t for some reason write to a temp folder Article here: nixCraft: How to install the latest/stable version of Linux kernel on Ubuntu Linux using apt-get Reference of mainline kernels to download from: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ & here’s the code I used download kernel debs wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-headers-4.18.7-041807_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_all.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-headers-4.18.7-041807-generic_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_amd64.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-modules-4.18.7-041807-generic_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_amd64.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-image-unsigned-4.18.7-041807-generic_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_amd64.deb…
I’ve a couple of ideas for simple games, and after doing a little research decided on giving Unity a try as a platform, and C# as a language. I was reluctant at first as I found I could only get it to work on Windows… in hindsight I could have probably used a Virtual Box, or even Wine, but there’s still time to change. Python was my first choice, although…
15/07/2017
An intro to crontab with some interesting examples: blog.davidsingleton.org
21/01/2016
linux spoof mac address does what it says on the tin, although not sure why you would need this or if there is a root free Android version 😉
yubikey-neo + KeyPassX + KeyPassDroid + OwnCloud portable secure password vault Searching through F-Droid for yubico I came across a link to KeyPassDroid; I’d come across a password safe solution on the yubico site using KeyPass, but was shied away as it mentioned the premium version… I don’t mind paying for shit, although if I can solve the issue with free open source alternatives I’ll spend hours trying 🙂 So…
13/10/2014
I only got into 0AD a couple of months back, and here’s a serious free update 🙂 Full details here: webupd8 Notable changes in 0 A.D. Alpha 17 “Quercus”: Major Core Combat Rebalance: if you send only one unit type to battle, it fares poorly against regiments of the same size that mix more than one type, e.g. melee and ranged units; technologies as a whole have been made more…
06/10/2014
I was playing about installing yet another Linux flavour via VirtualBox; CrunchBang. I’ve been a fan of Slackware for a while, so thought I’d give it a try. It was a pleasent surprise, it worked well from boot, with a nice installation script that gives the option to install all of the bells and whistles extras. It’s feels light, but in a lumbuntu sort of way; not short on functions,…
16/06/2014
Useful Linux command line string to show current DNS server: nm-tool | tail -n 8
30/04/2014
So it been a slow game month, although I’ve found other distractions! The geek activites that have kept me occupied recently: launch of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), there are a few cool features installed Kali Linuxon Virtual Box, and have been playing with some of the packaged tools podcasts… think I’m late to the party of this one it took me from the mid 80’s untill the last week…
09/01/2014
Here’s a very useful guide from require-‘mind’: Linux Command Line Tips: Become a Master
15/12/2013
After reading this post on Reddit about the unboxing of a Steam Machine, I’m very eager to see how well my own Linux machine will handle the Steam OS. All boxes below ticked, except for the NVIDIA graphics card. I’m hoping that the Steam OS will be the catalyst to get AMD drivers sorted for Linux… we can all dream 😉 I wonder how much the controllers will then cost?…
10/12/2013
linux format usb drive as fat32 go to super mode by typing “su” followed by super mode password fdisk -l that will show all the volume in your pc or you can also use the df to see the usb flash drive suppose it may be /deb/sdb1 umount /dev/sdb1 that un mount the drive mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 to format drive into fat32 format AskUbuntu
21/07/2013
Today I have been trying to work with Tor via AWS… I have installed Tor ok, it seems to be running, I am currently having issues connecting to the bridge from Vidalia. So while trying to achieve this I’ve come across some cool Linux commands htop – I use this ofter but thought I’d list it, as one of my favourites. It lists the current processes and system activity ps…
21/07/2013
Although I’ve been using linux for years, I’m still quite a n00b when it come s to command line prompts 🙂 leaving this here for future reference: How to close VIM from the command line In vim there are 3 different modes: Insert – allows typing and editing as normal Visual – used for selecting copy/paste etc. Normal – used for commands To get back to Normal mode, you can…
10/04/2013
I’m shocked, you hear stories, how a steam console could be linux based. An then the day arrives when I can install Steam on Ubuntu. This is a game changer, lets hope the AMD graphic card support gets better