Download flash videos in Ubuntu without any application

Here is a simple trick that you can use to download your favourite flash videos from Youtube or metacafe without any application. You can stop your search for an apt application for downloading youtube videos... installing it on linux...Just leave everything... Just login to the youtube and click on some videos to play it. While the video is streaming, check the /tmp folder in the Ubuntu's file system. There you can see the same video file being updated with filename like Flash26YGf2.flv You...

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How to add sudo to last command typed in bash terminal

Its most common that you might forget to type in the 'sudo' command along with some other commands. I have faced this problem many times and usually end up by typing the entire command with sudo keyword again. Here is a technique that we can use to avoid retyping the command again after typing sudo. Consider that i have to install a package called blueman system with the apt package manager via the terminal. Here i am not adding the sudo command before the apt command Then type the following...

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Troubleshooting Network problems in Ubuntu

                Internet connectivity is one of the important means of communication in todays life. So troubleshooting the problems in our own networks or reconfiguring it for the easiness is not to be praised as a "geekness". In my opinion you don't need to be a geek for setting an internet connection or recovering your machine from a network problem. Before getting into more troubles just checkout wheather the physical...

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How to use a pendrive as RAM in Windows

ReadyBoost enables you to plug a USB key into your machine and have Windows Vista use it as memory. I have seen this option "Speed up my system" many times when ever  I plug any USB device into my pc. But not taken it into consideration... And now it is the time to do it and share with you all... Installation/Configuration Plug the USB into your machine running Windows Vista/7. Upon plugging the thumb, the autoplay dialog box will pop with many options how to treat the pen drive just inserted....

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Complete reference to SSH tunnelling

an introduction . . . In simple words tunneling is a method of bypassing firewall or proxy restrictions using some tunnelling protocols. It works by creating a "tunnel", or a communications channel that makes the firewall think that it is getting traffic from a web browser. Communications content is delivered through this tunnel to our gateway or your own personal gateway. The gateway extracts your content from the tunnel and sends it to the destination. When your counter party responds everything...

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apt package manager : options & tricks

APT package manager in Debian systems can be used to download and install packages from online repositories. The APT commands (apt-get, apt-cache, and so on) can be used to install packages locally. However, it’s normally used for working with online software. sudo apt-get update Consults /etc/apt/sources.list and updates the database of available packages. Be sure to run this command whenever sources.list is changed. apt-cache search <keyword> Case-insensitive search of the package database...

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dpkg package manager options

The dpkg utility works at a layer lower than the APT utilities do. APT uses dpkg behind the scenes to manage software on your Ubuntu system. APT and dpkg work similar to the way yum and rpm do on Red Hat–based Linux distributions. Usually, APT will have enough functionality to get you through just about anything, but there are times when dpkg will be needed, such as finding out which package is associated with a given file on your system. Following are some of the common dpkg command options and...

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Changing Permissions with chmod

The chmod command lets you change the access permissions of files and directories. shows several chmod command lines and how access to the directory or file changes. chmod 0700 The directory’s owner can read or write files in that directory as well as change to it. All other users (except root) have no access. chmod 0711 Same as for the owner. All others can change to the directory, but not view or change files in the directory. This can be useful for server hardening, where you prevent...

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Copying Remote Files with scp

To use scp to transfer files, the SSH service (usually the sshd server daemon) must be running on the remote system. Here are some examples of useful scp commands: $ scp myfile francois@server1:/tmp/ Password: ****** Above code copies myfile to server1 $ scp server1:/tmp/myfile  Password: ****** Copy remote myfile to local working directory. Use the -p option to preserve permissions and timestamps on the copied files: $ scp -p myfile server1:/tmp/If the SSH service is configured...

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