Comment by jet on Authenticate User's Unix Credentials via Web Browser
ask user for username/password, calculate the hash of password and compare it to /etc/shadow. Problem is shadow file is visible only for root
View ArticleComment by jet on Can boot anything except windows
Can you boot the same Win media on other computer? Maybe you have to check the boot media checksum
View ArticleComment by jet on How to boot into a Linux installation on an external hard...
you have to install boot manager (Grub) on the external disk: boot from live disk and then mount /dev/sdX /mnt/ mount -t proc none /mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev chroot /mnt/ /bin/bash...
View ArticleComment by jet on USB flash drive wont format
have you tried to delete or create a partition first
View ArticleComment by jet on Cause of laptop only booting once every 3-10 times
Try to blow the dust out. Also try to boot some live Linux distribution from CD or USB stick to rule out software issue (for example Knoppix)
View ArticleComment by jet on Computer won't start even after clean Windows 10 install
Boot from a Linux live CD/USB to make sure hardware is fine, for example Ubuntu or Knoppix: knoppix.org
View ArticleComment by jet on Computer won't start even after clean Windows 10 install
If doesn't boot from live Linux -> hardware issue, not Windows one. Proper diagnostics is part of the solution. Sounds like hardware issue and no matter how many times you re-install Windows it will...
View ArticleComment by jet on Linux able to read data in my external hard drive while...
What kind of file system you are using on the USB hard drive? How did you format it? How many partitions do you have there? Post output of cat /proc/partitions under Linux
View ArticleComment by jet on How to ensure SSD is healthy?
How full is this disk - if is too full, there is no enough space for relocating the blocks? Maybe you have to disable auto defrag in Windows - it is killing the disk unnecessarily . Also what is memory...
View ArticleComment by jet on Moving data to lower sectors on an SSD without defragging
Copy these files instead of moving them and then delete the originals
View ArticleComment by jet on Is there way to receive alerts on breaking news that's...
All RSS readers have configuration how frequent to poll sites
View ArticleComment by jet on Samba: Identical samba shares on Linux acting differently
check the rights of /mnt/public
View ArticleComment by jet on Cron job to run python script raises error
in the line with: HOME = "Users/me/Desktop/pythonScript/" there should be a "/" before Users
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How can I copy files with SSH?
Mount remote machine locally with sshfs and copy files with your favorite tool- cp, nautilus, konqueror, dolphin, mc etc.or use fish://username@servername in konqueror or dolphi top open the remote...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Is there an rsync alternative, that stores compressed and...
If server is running ssh:mount remote site locally withsshfs -o nonempty,sshfs_sync,compression=yes username@host:/path/archives/ /mounted/encrypted/Create the encrypted system and mount it (The first...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How to interrupt a running Batch file, execute a command in...
Add lines in the batch with modifications (i.e. set new value to the variable) after pause and continue the batch
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How to unzip files via an FTP connection?
You can do it if you mount ftp resource using curlftpfs:curlftpfs ftp://ftp.server.org/ /path/to/mountpointthenunzip /path/to/mount/test.zip
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How to send huge files from one server to another server
put the file on the ftp site as you tried, but from Africa usewget -c ftp.server.com/filename-c will resume interrupted download
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Why do large zip files become corrupted so often after...
After download with the browser, always wait 5-10sec. before grab the file - there are file buffers to be flushed in the browser
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Sync laptop and desktop solution/ideas?
install OwnCloud on a server, open your firewall and installClient(s) for Windows/Mac/Linux. It will work as DropBox, but yours
View ArticleAnswer by jet for What do I need to know and how do I backup a recovery...
boot a live Linux i.e. Knoppix, you can skip loading GUI by typing: knoppix 2with cat /proc/partitions you can figure out which disk is which (by size)mount external disk for keeping the backup: mount...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Is there a tool that would let me test connectivity to...
telnet host portor nmap host -p portnumor nmap host -p 1-65535
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Answer by jet for Monitoring disk space
SequoiaView - looks like not supported muchMaybe TreeSize
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Add another OS to list at start
edit /etc/lilo.conf in slackwarethen run/sbin/lilomy advise is to install fedora's grub in MBR and it will manage slackware and Windows
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Transfering about 300gb in files from one server to another
first time use NFS and tar/untar (NFS is the fastest protocol in this case, tar to save network bandwidth by more CPU utilization)tar cf - * | ( cd /target; tar xfp -)next time/s use rsync
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How can I ensure my portable applications are up-to-date?
One way of ensuring your portable apps remain up to date would be to create a script with line for each app containing something similar to the following:cd \folder_with\Appswget -c...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How to search. pdf links on a given web page?
download the files first, then searchfind /path -name '*.pdf' -ls -exec pdftotext {} - \; | grep "your query"
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Samba share not accessible from Win 7 - tried advice on...
Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Local Security PolicyLocal Policies - Security OptionsNetwork security: LAN Manager authentication level Send LM & NTLM responsesMinimum session security for...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Is there any way at all to bypass sector-level CRC when...
ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors.AFAIK it is for Linux only
View ArticleAnswer by jet for SFTP - Recursively fetch new files
mount the server directory locally to you:sshfs username@servername:/path/ /mountorcurlftpfs username@servername:/path/ /mountthen rsync -av /mount /data/ > /data/rsync.logit copies only new files...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Desktop Configuration: More than 32GB RAM
You should consider server motherboards like these. Server motherboards can support a lot more RAM, though that RAM will be ECC and, as a result, will be much more expensive than ordinary RAM. Also,...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How do I start a console session with my $5 Cisco router...
use minicom -o -sThis is modem control and terminal emulation program for Unix and Unix like OS
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Blocking hover ads
You can use a HOSTS file to block ads, banners, 3rd party Cookies, 3rd party page counters, web bugs, and even most hijackers. This is accomplished by blocking the connection(s) that supplies these...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Is there a minimal Debian ISO with a single CD image?
You can use the netinstall CD (128 MB) or the first CD of the set and add more software via the internet.
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How to search inside files on Windows 7?
You can play with findstr.findstr /s /m searchstring *.*Options description:/S Searches for matching files in the current directory and all subdirectories./M Prints only the filename if a file contains...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How to convert a video to 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio without...
Try ffmpeg:ffmpeg -i mymovie.mpg -ar 22050 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 32K -r 25 -s 320x240 -vcodec flv mytarget.flvffmpeg has also option i.e.: -aspect 16:9
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Find files that will be backed up by Time Machine
if you know when the last backup run was, you can list files changed after that:For example, to find all files in /folder with .doc as the extension that were modified less than two days ago: find...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How to boot into a Linux installation on an external hard...
You have to install boot manager (Grub) on the external disk: Boot from live disk and then: mount /dev/sdX /mnt/mount -t proc none /mnt/procmount -o bind /dev /mnt/devchroot /mnt/...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Linux BitTorrent client with support for magnet links
KTorrent, as far as I know, supports them.
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Why should I make a separate partition for /tmp?
Also when tmp is on separate partition:You can share tmp between couple of linux distributions on multi boot environment and save disk spacetmp can be excluded from RAID setup (RAID disk space is at...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for I want to create multiple csv files from the data in the...
Save the whole Excel file as csv named myfile.csvIn the same folder create file split.bat with content:@echo offset /a c=0setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSIONfor /F "tokens=*" %%A in (myfile.csv) do ( set...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for What to look for when investigating problems with horrible...
Try powertop. It shows most power consuming processes and gives you hints on how to reduce the power consumption.
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