Linux

Did you even had trouble with Network Manager or ifconfig and felt that you need to try to set up static IP address from command line / CLI ifconfig? I accidentally removed Gnome (my bad, wasn’t paying attention and did an apt-get autoremove -y .. how bad is that.. ) …

How many time you wanted to pause unpause Linux boot screen to check out some errors? This screen goes away too fast and you’re then prompted with Login screen. Once logged in, you’re too busy doing something else that you completely forgot that error that glided through boot screen too …

Reaver-wps performs a brute force attack against an access point’s WiFi Protected Setup pin number. Once the WPS pin is found, the WPA PSK can be recovered and alternately the AP’s wireless settings can be reconfigured. This post outlines the steps and command that helps cracking Wifi WPA/WPA2 passwords using …

PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample …

Laptop mode explained: Laptop mode is used to minimize the time that the hard disk needs to be spun up, to conserve battery power on laptops. It has been reported to cause significant power savings. Laptop mode is controlled by the knob /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode. This knob is present for all kernels …