Have you read the last post of having a two-pane GUI file manager from your desktop linux? Well, here's another round of a much more advanced two-pane file manager.
What is Krusader
Krusader is the result of a 7-year old programming and discussion colloboration of opensource developer to come up...
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Implementing a two-pane with GNOME File manager is still under review as an additional nautilus file manager feature. Having a two-pane file manager offers better flexibility, convenience and usability of file management and directory operations, which is unbeatable by any customized shell...
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Are you looking for alternative linux terminal console that offers quite new terminal convenient features?
Here's an alternative linux tool that is available is also available from Fedora repos.
Yakuake - Yet Another Linux Terminal Console
Yakuake, one of the alternative KDE-based linux tool, is...
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ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed...
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That title is very catchy. Yes, this entry aims to convert a few JPG image files and merged them into one MPG video file using a small handy linux tool. Read on.
What is Kipi?
Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and...
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Here's an entry on how to convert multiple GIF files into PNG file format from terminal.
There are many ways on converting GIF files to PNG file format. One of them is using a command-line driven gif2png GIF-PNG file image converter.
Description:
The gif2png program converts files from the...
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Screensaver desktop preferences prevents your screen from being locked using screensaver.
Here's an alternative way of having a screensaver lock your screen while root. Read on.
By default, under System > Preferences > Look and Feel > ScreenSaver preferences does not allow locking of...
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If you are looking for another backup linux utility that supports GnuPG encryption mechanism over file and folder data backup and transfer, read on.
Duplicity backs up directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses...
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There a lot of java-enabled websites around the globe when visited, checks for specific java version from end users' browser. Most banking institutions does this. Disappointment comes along if you don't have any java package from your Fedora box.
If you are using Fedora and you wish to install the...
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From Fedora OS, if you were trying to issue
# java -version
and it is giving you the below similar output
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java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software...
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K9Copy Description and Installation
K9Copy is a small utility which allows the copy of DVD on Linux. K9copy facilitates several methods for backing up a DVD and utilizes libdvdcss to circumvent CSS copy protection.
K9copy enables direct backup of a single layer DVD-5 provided the user's computer...
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As a Fedora user since Fedora Core 1, I have to admit that the default X windows system with Fedora is not that quite sweetened and color-coded. Yes, it has striked a few but more candy-cooking is needed to bling it further. But hey, themes for X themes including icon and application themes are...
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If you are looking for more font types and options for more of your document write ups, here's a quick entry on installing European Language fonts on your Fedora X system.
European language fonts rpm package provides Central European fonts in compliance with the ISO8859-2 standard.
European...
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A decade ago, file operations on operating systems has been really quite eeery and so technical. File deletion, management and operation under MS-DOS and IBM-DOS with black text background tends to scare newbies on doing simple file tasks. Until file manager application has been introduced. One of...
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No I didn’t get banned from World of Warcraft for selling WoW gold. My gold is still stuck at around 14k since the beginning of the month due to me not being able to log in due to a corrupted patch. I need to do a full reinstall since the repair didn’t seem [...]
Here's another simple Gnome CD/DVD burning application.
Brasero, simple and easy to use yet another GNOME CD/DVD burning application for the Gnome desktop.
Features
* Supports multiple backends: cdrtools, growisofs and libburn(optional).
Note: compiling against libburn is _not_enough....
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ISOMaster is an easy to use graphical CD image editor. Isomaster allows to extract files from an ISO, add files to an ISO, and create bootable ISOs (CD/DVD) - all in a graphical user interface. It can open ISO, NRG, and some MDF files but can only save as ISO.
ISOMaster Main Features
a. Create...
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With old blog entry, here's how to have a GUI front-end for port and host scanning linux tool, Nmap. Port and host scanning via nmap is commonly done from linux terminal command line or CLI. If you wish to use nmamp with your X, here's an entry to do that.
As we all know, nmap is a free and...
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GRAMPS is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional genealogy program, and a wiki open to all. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.
Gramps genealogy software offers easy of use and easy navigation around different tree views of your...
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KFTPgrabber is a graphical FTP client for the K Desktop Environment. KFTPGrabber implements many features required for usable FTP interaction. If you like KDE environment and you are looking for KDE-based FTP client software, here's a quick entry on how to install KFtpGrabber linux tool to your...
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Filezilla has come a long way both FTP software server and client base. To those who hasn't installed FileZilla FTP Client yet, here's how to install Filezilla to Fedora 8. And those who are still looking for alternative FTP client software for linux,besides from GFTP and KFtpGrabber, here's a...
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Do you need a desktop popup alert when somebody is trying to bruteforce your SSH service?
How to be alerted from X Desktop when specific matching words appears from specific logs?
How to popup an alert when matching phrases are met from log files?
A quick entry on how to be alerted from X windows...
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Are you searching for Network Neighborhood from your linux desktop? Have you been wondering how you can map a shared windows network drive from your linux desktop using GUI?
Here's another simple linux desktop howto on mapping shared windows folder from linux desktop.
There are lots of way to...
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I have been asked to post a command or script by a newbie user on how he can delete all files with 0K or zero filesize recursively.
This is a quick entry on how to delete files with 0K (zero) filesize and optionally do it recursively.
A precaution. First, deleting files recursively in linux is...
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Wiki defines MTU as
In computer networking, the term Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) refers to the size (in bytes) of the largest packet that a given layer of a communications protocol can pass onwards. MTU parameters usually appear in association with a communications interface (NIC, serial port,...
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You can work with your hard drives, network drives and other external or USB storage devices accomplishing critical linux hacks. Yes, technology nowadays have enabled us to make use of larger and more stable storage capacity drives and devices. Most firms and company services enjoy the benefits of...
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Installing identity.pub from your local machine into a remote machine can be done in a fewer keystrokes using ssh-copy-id. This ssh-copy-id linux command has been used as one of the few linux commands here but it's usage has never been emphasized and explained.
This quick entry covers on how to...
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I just plugged my old harddrive into my existing linux box and it has been long time since I last used this spare harddisk of mine. I just felt the need to check for an old rpm spec file this hardddrive.
Now, here's a quick blog entry on how to check your harddisk for possible bad blocks and mark...
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Tired of looking your detailed hardware configuration specs? Forgot those command line commands to identify your devices and hardware specs?
Here's a GUI based hardware browser that displays your current hardware specifications and profile with no fuzzy and administrative menu. Hwbrowser shows all...
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RPM has been the standard binary for querying packages from RedHat and any other rpm-based OS like CentOS, WhiteBox, Fedora, Mandriva, Blag and 60+ more.
As a refresher, here are some basic patterns on how to query rpm packages using rpm package manager.
To search rpm database for all package...
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Every time you query rpm database against your rpm package manager, your linux terminal and query seems to hang and you cannot do something about it except try to kill and terminate the current rpm query process.
One probable cause for this could be a recent rpm query was unexpectedly terminated...
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I have been posting rpm samples but have not posted anything about rpm description, so here goes the man page.
rpm is a powerful Package Manager, which can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and erase individual software packages. A package consists of an archive of files and...
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With a pending project at hand, system admin A installed mod_ssl, and after a while sysad A resigned and left. You take over and found out that mod_ssl was recently installed with a pending configuration job. The mod_ssl is just a new thing for you and your experience. But you need to continue a...
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Here's a way to identify from which program package a file belongs to or which package a directory folder belongs to or created from? That is, which package name installed and created a particular package file?
Supposed that you encounter a file name lying a round from some directory and the file...
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Have you encountered a text file full of words separated by multiple extra space between words? Mostly, these files are caused by data export mechanism by some application processing software.
Now, here's how to remove and delete those multiple and extra spaces between words of a file.
# cat...
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The title says it all, how to find hidden directory folders recursively.
There are times we need to list down all hidden directories from a file system or display all hidden directory folder from a client home folder, this task can simply be done using linux find command.
How to find hidden...
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From linux command line terminal, here's a quick tip on creating a hidden directory folder from your hard drive.
Simply issue the following to create a hidden directory from linux terminal window.
Let us do it from temporary folder
# cd /tmp
Then create the hidden directory folder
# mkdir...
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Let us assume we have a large text configuration file, and we need to display and print ONLY the lines that has more than 20 characters per line, how can we do that from command line terminal?
Selective Display of Lines From Text File
Here's how to print the lines of a text file that only exceeds...
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If you have thousands of email users and you wish to get email alerts of the top 10 largest mail box users from your email without using any other external linux software, here's how to accomplish this task. This task can also be used to check for top largest files of your hard drive from linux...
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If you have a text file with multiple lines running between each set of words or pharagraph, here's how to convert those multiple line breaks into single line breaks and totally remove paragraph lines, new lines or return lines inside text files.
Supposed you have a cluttered text file or...
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Most probable reasons of leaving a post-compiled trojan programs after successfully exploiting a system is brought about by small percentage of having increased security by root not to enable user from compiling a program source, or run executable scripts and binary programs from particular device....
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Determining domain expiration is also part of an IT web-enabled infrastructure. There are a lot of window softwares that queries the internet for the domain's expiration date.
Here's an easy way on how to display your domain's expiration date using linux terminal command in a single shot.
Check...
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An existing linux command exists from linux binary folder, and this command when executed display a result which is not complete for your regular daily task. Simply to say, you need to add or delete its default command parameter when executed. Worry not, here's an entry to create and/or overwrite...
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IP address inventory and management could be part of your regular task. This may include MAC address inventory for network cards and host identification.
Here's a quick blog entry on retrieving MAC Address the network card of each host inside your local broadcast network.
To retrieve and fetch...
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Quick tip.
It is strange to know that the default ls alias command from other linux distro does not show hidden directories by default.
Here's an entry on how to find hidden files of a particular directory.
Simply issue
# ls -a
# ls -la
The -a tells ls to include hidden directory folders...
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Here's a quick tip on listing out and identifying all the shells available from a Fedora box.
This file is also responsible for keep a record of all available and valid login shells root can delegate to a particular system account. This file is also being consulted by other programs to determine...
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There are times when you need to prevent a particular bash-enabled user to login temporarily into your system, without completely deleting his account, here's an entry to do that.
This entry can be helpful for a situation wherein you need to temporarily prevent bash-enabled users from logging into...
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Here's how to remove tabs or tab characters completely from a file.
# cat testfile.txt
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a a a a
b b b b
c c c c
123 123 123
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Let us be verbosed...
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Converting tab characters to space characters can be done quite easily in linux. This task can be handy on removing tab characters in a file and convert them to specified space characters at the same time.
If you have just exported an article or data into a file with tab-columnized or...
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What is Cheese?
Cheese is a GNOME application designed to take photos and videos of you and your friends with your webcam, add special effects to them and share them with your friends and family. Cheese linux application was written as part of Google's 2007 Summer of Code lead by Daniel G. Siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx, and has most of the classical photo booth features after a bare
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