How to use Prolific RS232 USB to Serial Converter with Ubuntu ################################################### Using ubuntu 14.04 I didnt need to install any drives. Just plug and play. Also works with Ubuntu 11 (accordingRead More…
Zcat and zgrep UPDATE 2016-04-26: thanks for article here http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77296/is-there-a-tool-that-combines-zcat-and-cat-transparently Forget my lcat function, just use the already provided zgrep and zcat commands. FORMAT: zcat -f — * # reads all files (normal andRead More…
Bulk Terminal Rename for many files and folders. SIDENOTE: This is a common rename tool. Commonly I see it called as simply “rename”. In cygwin its called “prename” (other distros also call itRead More…
BTRFS – TOO MANY BALANCES – When to do balances ############################################# We (who is we, btrfs users) shouldn’t do em as much. They dont do much unless the systems allocation is full.Read More…
If you installed a program (with apt, yum, or compiled it and then installed – or whatever) and then you try to run it. # gem but you get the error (evenRead More…
Torrenting isn’t as big deal as it once used to be. Many vendors provide their big file downloads via Torrents. Why? I thought only pirates operate the Torrent seas? Not true. TorrentsRead More…
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK – HAVE A BACKUP PRIOR TO RUNNING Sometimes you dont want COW, because COW is copy on write and causes fragmentation where there are alot of readsRead More…
SCRIPTS TO EXTRACT AND ORGANIZE YOUR RAR FILES ############################################# ############################################# UPDATE 04-28-2015: latest scripts for unrar (and also unzip version) located over here: unrar123 & unzip scripts Good if you torrent. NotRead More…
Intro Researching what is vmcom and vmlim from atop output, led me to research more interesting info on RAM and I learned alot. I want to include the interesting excerpts that IRead More…
Interesting way to use colors (an easy way) in bash. And a cool way to use shift. This is from a script that I found online that install GNS3 and vpcs andRead More…