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How to Change Console Fonts In Ubuntu for 4K Screen

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Vishal Jain

Recently I bought HP Spectre x360 Convertible that has a fantastic crisp 4K screen. Using CTRL+F1 (upto F6 usually) one can access console. With 4K screens now ...

Debugging Tools/Internet/Network Tools/Unix Admin

Net-SNMP configuration for non-root AgentX application

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Vishal Jain

By using a TCP Socket one can allow a non-root AgentX application/agent to connect to Net-SNMP masteragent. But this should be used for development purpose only...

Misc/Open Source Tools

Suspend button in Gnome3

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Vishal Jain

In Gnome3 Suspend button is not displayed by default. Shutdown button changes to suspend button when ALT key is pressed. No plugin necessary.

Network Tools/Unix Admin

Capture local network traffic for multi-homed host

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Vishal Jain

If both end-points of a socket are on local system, network traffic will be seen on loopback interface even if applications are using non-loopback interface (e....

Hardware/Internet/Network Tools

Rename network interface on ubuntu

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Vishal Jain

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules defines the name for network interfaces.

Misc

VPN : Connecting to Nortel VPN from Linux

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Vishal Jain

vpnc-nortel branch allows a user to connect to Nortel VPN client from Linux.

Misc

Migrating from Windows to Linux

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Vishal Jain

Want to move from Windows to Linux? Look no further. Ubuntu, LibreOffice, Thunderbird and DavMail to the rescue.

Bash/OS Interoperability/Unix Admin

How to find current runlevel on unix system

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Vishal Jain

Linux provides a utility called runlevel but "who -r" is a portable solution which is available across various Unixes.

Network Tools/OS Interoperability/Unix Admin

Most often used Network Sniffer flags for tcpdump and snoop

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Vishal Jain

Selecting interface, capturing full data, writing to a file etc. are some of the most often used Packet capture flags.

Bash/OS Interoperability/Unix Admin

bash : Automate add/modify/delete of cron jobs from a script

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Vishal Jain

Output redirections using pipes can be used to combine multiple crontab commands to install new cron job or to modify or delete old cron jobs without using any ...

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