Screenshots; everyone loves them – whether it’s to show off your new shiny desktop, or just to record something on the screen at that moment in time, we’ve all taken lots! I guess at the moment a lot of screenshots are being taken with the GNOME tool, but what if you don’t use GNOME? What …
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End all processes belonging to a user (Linux)
You may, at some point, need a quick way to end all processes for a specific username, instead of listing them all and going through each one. Sure, you could write a small script to do this, and that’s what the developer of slay has done. slay is a shell script which, when given a …
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How to install telnet in Windows Vista
If like me you use telnet a lot, you’ll have been surprised when the command wasn’t available to you within Windows Vista. This is because Microsoft have taken telnet out of the default Windows Vista installation, and made it a feature which you have to manually install. Installing telnet within Vista is simple, though, and …
Todo/Task Management and Organiser for GNOME
Everyone has a long list of tasks to do of a day – and everyone always forgets something; we just can’t remember everything. This is where Getting Things GNOME! (gtg for short) comes in – an application for the GNOME desktop environment, that focuses on being easy to use, but powerful and flexible at the …
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Mount an ISO Image Under Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista
Following on from my post about how to mount an ISO image under Linux, this article will focus on doing the same thing from within Windows. From Mount an ISO Image Under Linux: “You may have many ISO images lying around of various CDs or DVDs. ISO images are an exact copy of an optical disk, …
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mtr: A Better traceroute and ping, combined! (Linux, BSD)
mtr is an small utility which combines both the functionality of traceroute and ping, for Linux and BSD. There are always occasions where you’ve wanted to traceroute to a host, possibly due to connectivity issues, and you need to diagnose where the problem lies. Most operating systems offer basic traceroute and ping utilities, but what …
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SSH Access Whilst on the Move (iPhone, iPod Touch)
If like me you maintain servers and use Secure Shell (SSH) as the primary method of connecting to them, you’ll know the importance of being able to connect to those servers, no matter where you are, to either make changes, monitor them, or fix any problems. If you have an iPhone, you can connect to …
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How to Lookup the MX record(s) for a Domain
It’s important to know where mail goes for a domain, especially if you’re a system administrator looking after mail servers. There are a whole host of web sites you can use to find MX records now – MX Records are the DNS entry so servers know where to send e-mail, destined to that domain. The …
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Taking a Screenshot of a Web Page (OSX)
There may be occasions where you want to take a full sized image of any web page – for historical reasons or just because you want to keep a snapshot of that page. You may have, up to now, taken a screenshot of the browser window, but most web pages are larger than the window, …
Vim Text Editor: Use Spaces Instead of Tabs
By default, Vim uses tabs instead of spaces when you press the tab button. There is an ongoing argument around the internet (which we won’t go into now, but may in the future!) on what you should use, but, either way, you may want/need to change your tabs to spaces. These are often called “soft …
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