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The truth about Linux today is that one may never have to actually <a class="zem_slink" title="Spice Girls" rel="homepage" href="http://www.thespicegirls.com">touch a terminal or issue a single Linux command in order to run some versions of this flexible alternative <a class="zem_slink" title="Operating system" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system">operating system. While there are times when using the Linux <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/an-introduction-to-the-linux-command-line/">command line could be expeditious and the benefits of possessing the ability to use it are numerous, many users can be intimidated by the prospect.

Damn Vulnerable Linux – DVL review

Today morning I got a chance to look at one of the other less commonly known Linux Distribution and out of the line distribution, very good for Learning purposes. The distribution is known as DVL (Damn Vulnerable Linux). As the name suggest this is for people looking at developing their skills in Security and Penetration testing. Quite a lot of good and interesting tools are included. More is left for users to experiment but I definately liked the distribution. Here is the <a href="http://www.damnvulnerablelinux.org/" target="_blank">homepage.

chfn – Change finger information

Finger is a nifty nice utility to get the information on the user. A sample output of the command is as below:

-0-(ak) ~ > finger ak
Login: ak                     Name: Amit Agarwal
Directory: /home/amitag                 Shell: /bin/bash
Office: MGL
On since Sun Oct 19 13:50 (IST) on tty7 from :0
On since Sun Oct 19 13:50 (IST) on pts/0 from :0.0
No mail.
No Plan.
All this information can be changed with the command chfn. No hassles, just type in the command it does the rest, asking you for the information whatever required. You can also specify the details in the command itself with the below mentioned parmateres:

Web Thumbnails, create your account to upload your files.

So, since I got one more address, I thought of some social service too ;). Just kidding. Got my gallery site up. You can use it too to upload your photos. For stopping social abuse I would personally be montoring the accounts thus created and you would need to send a mail to gallery@amit-agarwal.co.in for creation of the account. Right now there is no quota on the size of the space.

Color output from ls – based on file type

Threre are certain default variables which control the color of the output from the ls command, so we will talk about them today.

The first one is to get the color output from the &#8221;ls&#8221; command. We will look at the various ways to do this:

First is to use this with default colors:

ls –color=auto

Now this will use the default colors which might not go with your liking 🙂 So if you want to change the colors you can use the variable called LS_COLORS.

Crossfire game server.. free connection.

I have setup a Free to use Crossfire game server. If you want to play the game, you can connect to amit.themafia.info

For playing the game you would need the client to connect to it which you can install with

yum install crossfire-client

then you can run the game with &#8221;cfclient&#8221; and then connect to amit.themafia.info.

Setting the title of PuTTY window.

Setting the title for PuTTY window is quite a simple trick. The trick is to set the PS1 with a escape sequence. When the PS1 is set with the escape sequence the variable will set the title window also. And not only can this trick be used in PuTTY but even on gnome-terminal to set the title dynamically. You can use this in the .bashrc or .bash_profile file to do it whenever you are starting the terminal.