Colored Shell For Easier Reading With Lolcat
Lolcat is a great color tool for the shell. I will show you how I use it to increase my shell productivity. Consider some wall of text output (like from journalctl) IsRead More…
Wifi Password Cracking On AWUS036ACS and QGOO 1750 Mbps on Ubuntu
These notes are more of a massive cheat sheet for me for Wifi connectivity and Wifi SSID / password cracking. To do “wifi password hacking”, you need a special Wifi adapter thatRead More…
Bash Trick To Split on Null or Zero Byte
Some system-level values are output with a null byte (the bytes value is 00) and might need to read those values seperately. This Null byte delimitation can be worked around using xargsRead More…
Installing & Running VDBench on Centos 7.9
Vdbench Software (version 50407): http://www.infotinks.com/vdbench/vdbench50407.zip Vdbench Guide (version 50407): http://www.infotinks.com/vdbench/vdbench-50407.pdf
Start Reverse SSH Tunnel On Boot
My Issue: I have a Ubuntu VM running on my Windows 11 via HyperV virtualization. I cannot SSH into that Ubuntu VM because its using the default networking which creates a NAT.Read More…
Install bat (syntax coloring version of cat) on centos + other
Here is what bat is: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Bypassing ssh Permissions Too Open Warning
This trick works for Linux servers and also if you are using WSL2 on Windows to run Ubuntu (or whatever *nix OS) and you are trying to utilize ssh keys with yourRead More…
Trick to recall “ln -s” symlink argument order
I can never remember the order of arguments for the ln command (link command). The easiest way to think about it is to rethink of the “cp” (copy command) instead of “cpRead More…
Backup file[s] to Dropbox (without syncing)
This github page, https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader, has the dropbox-uploader tool which I use to backup content from servers (Linux, Mac, etc) without having to sync my Dropbox content to the local disk on yourRead More…