Easy BASH command histroy
While in a Terminal session, press Ctrl+R and start typing a part of a previous command. The prompt will autocomplete the command from the bash history and you won’t need to type it all over again. [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Triple your audio volume in MPlayer
Some videos you download might not have such a high audio volume, even with alsamixer set to 100%. There’s a trick for this. Start your video with mplayer -softvol -softvol-max 300 video_file.avi to boost your vol[...]
Quickly install a server in Ubuntu
It doesn’t get easier than this. Open up a terminal in Ubuntu and type sudo tasksel An ncurses screen will then allow you not only to install a LAMP server in three moves but also select a Samba, Tomcat Java server[...]
Spy on your users through SSH
You just connected through SSH and are wondering what your users are doing. Do a cat /dev/vcs1 and this will show you what happens on the first console. If someone is typing, you’ll be able to get an output of his [...]
