Let’s say you have an 8GB DVD ISO file and you want to shrink it to a more acceptable 4GB ISO file. You can use K9Copy‘s Shrink Factor feature. Just extract the DVD files into a separate folder, load that folder in K9Copy (by using the Input Device‘s Open button), select ISO image as the… Read More »
It can be irritating sometimes. The Terminal “beep” sound. When you try to auto-complete a command with the Tab button you can hear it and you can never find enough time to set it off. Here’s how: Open up Gnome TerminalGo to Edit > Profile PreferencesUncheck the Terminal bell option. …and you’re done 🙂
Instead of kill or killall you can use pkill to faster terminate a process in Linux. pkill pidgin will search for any instance of Pidgin among the currently running processes and kill them all.
Finding out your PC’s IP in Linux is a simple matter of typing ifconfig in a Terminal shell. But what if you’re behind a router? Thanks to a simple shell script, you can display your IP in the command line by simply invoking the whatismyip command. Do this: cd /usr/bin sudo nano whatismyip In the… Read More »