To create an ISO file from a physical DVD/CD/Floppy/USB/Anything. Use the command ‘dd‘ this creates a bit for bit copy of the original file/partition/device. dd takes two parameters these are if – input file and of – output file. In this case the input file will be the CD and the output file will be [...]

Boot up into a Live Linux Image. Mount your old Linux Install, and use chroot to take control of it. mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt chroot /mnt You will get grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). if you don’t mount you devices, before attempting to install GRUB. So mount all devices. mount [...]

Using GParted, or another tool, format the USB to NTFS and make the partition bootable. As root, mount your Windows ISO. mount /home/osaka/en_windows_7.iso /mnt -o loop Then copy the contents to the USB. cp -rv /mnt/* /media/USB sync # Flush file system buffers Install the Windows boot loader to the USB. ms-sys -7 /dev/sdX You [...]

git config –global credential.helper cache git config –global credential.helper ‘cache –timeout=3600′ The first command enables the password caching, the second sets the timeout to 1hr. Note this won’t work with ssh, but you will have already setup SSH Keys, right?

To locate your twitter ID, you can get all inforamtion about your account from this link. Make sure you replace screen name with your twitter username. https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?screen_name=<username> https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?screen_name=pgmaynard Now that you have your twitter ID, you can do cool things such as get your twitter timeline as an RSS feed. https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14077578.rss

Dispite there being only a 32bit version of the android SDK, you can still work with it on your 64bit machine, make sure you have the following packages installed: Debian, Ubuntu, etc apt-get install ia32-libs apt-get install sun-java6-jdk Fedora, CentOS, etc yum install glibc.i686 zlib.i686 libstdc++.i686 Download the 32bit SDK wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r18-linux.tgz (If link is [...]

Install tsocks on your client machine. Tsocks is a application which replaces all connect() calls with it’s own, which means you can run any application though the server/proxy even if it dosent have support for proxy/SOCKS. apt-get install tsocks Update /etc/tsocks.conf

I was using netbootin like I always do, got annoyed about the fact that I couldn’t find my iso image in the mess of files which is called my home directory. That’s when I thought I could implement a filter… Objective To add a filter to the image selection screen. Action 1. First I searched [...]

Install the bash auto completion package. sudo apt-get install bash-completion Uncomment the following in /etc/bash.bashrc to enable to auto completion. You will need to open a new terminal after doing this. sudo vi /etc/bash.bashrc # enable bash completion in interactive shells if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then . /etc/bash_completion fi [...]

Run it via the command line and click on a window you’d like more information about, and view the output. For more inforamtion see ‘man xwininfo’ Example output: osaka@OsakaPad ~ $ xwininfo xwininfo: Please select the window about which you would like information by clicking the mouse in that window. xwininfo: Window id: 0x201484c “Terminal” [...]