Fix weird flux menu
2017/05/03
Some distro’s just add all the items under single menu and thus the menu itself becomes unusable because of the number of items in the submenu and this I did not like and hence ceated this simply …
scapy packet dump to packet
2017/04/10
First you need to have scapy installed. And if you don’t know about scapy, then […] Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide …
Windows Vs Linux – One more time
2017/04/07
Image via Wikipedia […] One of the most written and commented articles has to be Linux vs Windows (of course there are competitors like vim vs emacs) but none has been covered so much as Linux …
Celebrating 25 Years of Linux Kernel Development
2017/04/03
Linux is now 25 years old, but it’s no hipster. It’s not chasing around Pokemon, and it’s not moving back in with its parents due to crippling student debt. In fact, Linux is still growing and …
Fedora – change from one edition to some other
2017/03/27
You will need to install convert-to-edition, description […] Name : convert-to-edition Arch : noarch Epoch : 0 Version : 25 Release : 1 Size : 9.7 k Repo : fedora Summary : Script for …
flatpak – get latest libreoffice
2017/03/20
flatpak is tool similar to 0install. You can find more details here.
Happy Holi
2017/03/13
systemd – start service when you enable it
2017/03/13
More often than not for any service, I end up doing : systemctl enable <service> systemctl start <service> But there is shorcut to this. In systemctl command when you enable the service, …
Linux Best Practices and Tips
2017/03/06
Linux is powerful, flexible, and can be adapted to a broad range of uses. While best practices for administrating Linux servers are not hard to find due the popularity of the operating system, there …
Kernel dropped packet analysis
2017/02/27
Found a simple method to check for all the packets dropped by kernel. First you need to install dropwatch with dnf install dropwatch and details of the package […] Once that is done, you will …
bash ansi codes to html for html reports from shell script
2017/02/20
How many times you have felt that there was some simple way to convert bash ansi escape sequences ( colors as well in terminal ) to html equivalent so that you can send the same as html report in …
Get kernel function name from kernel address.
2017/02/13
If you are using pmap or using strace and want to covert kernel address to function name then you can use the following technique. First you need to install elfutils, if not installed. dnf install …