Author Archives: T4L

Lock your KDE screen from the command line

Did you know you can lock your current KDE screen by using the command line? For the 3.x series use dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface lock and for KDE 4.x try qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock With the help of these you should be able to craft a simple shell script that will lock your screen at given… Read More »

Make the lights of your NIC blink

If you work on a large network and you get sent to the server room to check out a certain network card, you might get lost in the multitude of network hardware. To find your certain NIC, SSH to the machine in question and do a sudo ethtool -o eth0 The lights of the network card should start… Read More »