This is just a quick look at cleaning up an Ubuntu system. This is all documented elsewhere by an abundance of people, some of whom I no doubt took this off in the past and have forgotten where now (If you’re that person, then thanks very much, this stff has been coming in handy for [...]
Cleaning Up Ubuntu
July 3rd, 2009Renaming Files Using Perl
June 16th, 2009I finally got around to writing a script to rename all my music file to the same convention. That being either <track>-<song>.mp3 or <song>.mp3 with no spaces (I prefer underscores instead) and all lowercase. I know, it looks so simple! But the problem is all those occasions where you have something like <track>_-_<SONG>_-_(<remix by>).mp3 which [...]
GNS3 - Graphical Network Simulator
May 19th, 2009“GNS3 is a graphical network simulator that allows simulation of complex networks.”
I was recently pointed in the direction of this app as a pretty nice graphical interface to the Dynamips / Dynagen router simulation. It still uses Dynamips / Dynagen underneath, along with Pemu (a Cisco PIX firewall emulator based on Qemu), but allows you [...]
Ubuntu Dynamips And Dynagen Starter Guide
February 19th, 2009This is a slimmed down version of a combination of the Dynamips / Dynagen Tutorial and a few other Ubuntu specific sources. In fact, you could call it a quick and dirty guide to get you up and running. I reccommend using the Dynamips / Dynagen Tutorial once you have finished here picking up at [...]
Accessing Gnome Trash Folder From Terminal
February 12th, 2009I’ve often found that I can’t delete items I’ve copied from a CD or DVD using the GUI Trash folder. In fact, this can happen with a variety of files from a variety of places but, to be honest, I have a habit of not correcting the permissions on these files before blindly hitting delete. [...]
Basic Vim Commands
December 2nd, 2008Vim is what is known as a modal editor. While using it becomes very easy over time, learning it initially can be confusing and pretty irritating.
Opening A File And Inserting Text
The first step in vim is to use it to open a file or create a new one. To do so you just do the [...]
Basic C++ Calculator
November 20th, 2008The below is a simple program to add, subtract, multiply and divide integer numbers. It’s the first program I wrote in C++ as a tester and most of the basic concepts are covered so I’ll go through them here in case they’re of help to someone else! I’ll admit the explainations below are a bit [...]
Mailer Shell Script
November 20th, 2008This script uses the Unix mailx program to send a pre-scripted email to someone. It will take in an email address on the command line as an argument and send the mail to this address. Just copy and paste this into a file named mailerscript and change the file permissions to 755 and then your [...]
Changing Your MAC Address In Linux
November 20th, 2008In Linux is extremely easy to change your MAC address. All you need is a couple of commands. To start off you will need to take down the interface to make the change. To do so just type the following into your terminal:
$ ifconfig eth0 down
Now we can get to changing the MAC address. [...]
SSH Forwarding
November 19th, 2008The basis for this particular article (and most of the info) came from one of the guys I work with, Gavin McCullagh, who I’m pretty sure knows more stuff than is good for him. It’s all pretty handy stuff, but can be irritating to get working
Forwarding X Server
If you want to forward an X session [...]
