Watch Star Wars in your Terminal
Ever wondered how ASCII Star Wars would look like? Launch the following in your Terminal and find out: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
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Backing up the bootsector
Afraid you might mess up your MBR? Back up the bootsector: dd if=/dev/hda of=bootsector.img bs=512 count=1 If anything goes wrong, you can boot from a LiveCD and restore the bootsector with dd if=bootsector.img of=/dev/hda
This command just made me lose $RANDOM neurons
Have a little $RANDOM fun – paste the following in your terminal session: echo “This command just made me lose $RANDOM neurons”
Which are your most-used Linux commands?
You can display a top 10 of your most-used Linux commands by pasting this in your console: history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”}{print $1}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr The output will be something like 76 cd73 sudo45 ls37 whois28 apt-cache24 locate15 htop13 qemu11… Read More »