Disable NTP sync during USplash in Ubuntu Linux
NTP sometimes greatly slows down your Ubuntu’s boot time. To disable it just do a simple sudo apt-get remove ntpdate [...]
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Disable the Linux screen blanking
If you want to disable X screen blanking (aka. disable the X screensaver) that comes up unexpectedly while you’re watching a movie in MPlayer, all you have to do is setterm -powersave off -blank 0 To make the chang[...]
Find out your router’s external IP address using the Linux command line
If you want to find out what external IP address your router has assigned to it, you can either search the Internet for sites that can display that said IP address or you can use the Linux command line: wget -O - -q ican[...]
Mount Windows shares like normal drives in Linux
If you want to have access to Windows shares and mount them like normal drives in Linux, use the smbmount command: smbmount “\\\\WINDOWS\\c” -c ‘mount /mount/Windows’ -I 192.168.0.3 where “\[...]
