If you manage to freeze your system in such a way that even Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn’t work anymore, the mouse is stuck on the screen any none of the key combinations will work, don’t think of the reset button just yet. Hold down the Right Alt and SysRq keys and press this sequence: R E I… Read More »
Sometimes you do something like cat /bin/cat and your Terminal fills with characters. The bad part is that you have to clear the screen to get a usable BASH prompt since now everything you type is unintelligible. Clear your Terminal screen with reset Type the word then press the Enter key to get a working… Read More »
The sl binary is a funny little application that makes you pay attention when you type “ls“. If you have it installed and type sl by accident instead, an ASCII train will roam through your terminal screen instead. Try it.
This is a nice trick to easily access information about your multimedia files. Install the mplayer package then add the following to your ~/.bashrc file: idmedia(){ mplayer -identify -frames 0 -ao null -vo null -vc dummy “$@” 2>/dev/null | grep ID_ } Now run it like idmedia file.mp3 (this tip was sent in by lockw3)