Resizing windows in XFCE / XFWM4
This does not seem to be a problem for everyone nor for every XFCE theme, but sometimes it can be a real drag (no pun … Read more
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Linux
Using sfdisk to recover a partition table on Linux
As he re-entered the sfdisk dump manually in the remote recovery console, using the devil’s editor (vi), he was silently thanking the Linux developers for … Read more
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Using nmap to “ping” remote ports
nmap -p 443 site.com nmap -p 21,22,2222,80,443 site.com nmap -p 50-100 site.com nmap is a very versatile tool for analyzing remote hosts. Given the above … Read more
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Show which process/program is listening to what port using netstat and lsof
lsof -Pnl +M -i4 lsof -Pnl +M -i6 or netstat -tulpn netstat -npl There are obviously a number of ways to accomplish this, but these … Read more
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Using MTR to create a text file report
mtr –report –report-cycles 20 www.instagram.com > ignetrpt.txt The above should be entered on one line. Using MTR this way makes it easy to simply send … Read more
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Orage clock preferences in XFCE
Ubuntu 18.04.1.LTS, XFCE Line 1: %H:%M, Ubuntu Mono Bold 14 Line 2: %a %d %b, Ubuntu Condensed 11 Tooltip: %A %d %B %Y/%V Set width: … Read more
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SSH tunnel to use other mailserver than localhost
Because I have a lot of virtual machines, laptops, work environments, and so on, I never seem to find the time to setup SMTP authentication … Read more
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When your DHCP client has lease renewal issues, Sendmail may be at fault
On one of our VPS instances, I noticed some seriously erratic behavior with the DHCP client taking a long time to renew its leases when … Read more
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Fixing some keyboard shortcuts in XFCE (Ctrl+F5 and Ctrl+Alt+T)
Old habits die hard, or something like that 🙂 Cloning one of my Ubuntu Desktop set-ups to a VirtualBox environment, I switched to using XFCE4 … Read more
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ttf-mscorefonts-installer and Ubuntu 16
As has been confirmed in a number of posts on the Internet, there’s a problem with the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package on Ubuntu 16. There are a … Read more
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