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[one-liner]: Howto get your WAN IP Address

Background

I’ve seen this question asked MANY times over the years and thought I’d write up all the various ways I’m familiar with getting your WAN IP (ISP provided) address. But before we start here’s a quick overview of some of the terminology.

IP Address:a number that identifies your computer on a network from other computers on […]

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[one-liner]: Monitoring Network Traffic with Netstat on Linux

Background

This is a quick guide to some not so obvious command-line options available in the Linux netstat(8) command. I hope you enjoy it.

Solution

1. Plain old netstat

Without any command-line arguments, “netstat” shows a list of network connections in your system, including TCP, UDP and UNIX socket connections. If you want to speed up things a bit, […] Continue reading

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[one-liner]: GNOME & Nautilus Keyboard Shortcuts

Background

I’m always forgetting GNOME & Nautilus keyboard shortcuts so this is a list of some of the more common ones that I’ve used in the past.

Solution

Here’s the lists. I’ve tried to organize the shortcuts first by whether they’re GNOME related or Nautilus. I’ve also tried to break them down into a sub groups based on […] Continue reading

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[one-liner]: List of Linux Audio Tools

Background

Here’s a list of some linux audio tools that I’ve been compiling for a while. It isn’t meant to be complete, it’s just a list of audio tools that caught my eye and may be useful down the road.

Tools

qsynth

– http://qsynth.sourceforge.net/qsynth-index.html

songbird

– http://getsongbird.com/

banshee

– http://banshee.fm/

rythmbox

– http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/

exaile

– http://www.exaile.org/

mixxx

– http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/

amsynth

– http://amsynthe.sourceforge.net/amSynth/

rosegarden

– http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

ardour

– http://ardour.org/

hydrogen

– http://www.hydrogen-music.org/

bristol

– http://bristol.klik.atekon.de/

smurf

– http://smurf.sourceforge.net/

audacity

– http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

qarecord

– http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/

Jokosher

– http://www.jokosher.org/

jack

– http://jackaudio.org/

Fonts

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Late February 2012 Software Development Links of Interest

This post summarizes and provides links to some online resources related to software development that have recently captured my attention. Topics include Linux, DevOps, dynamic typing versus static typing, abstraction versus simplicity, and cloud compu… Continue reading

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[one-liner]: Changing a ISO File’s Volume ID via the Command Line on Linux

Background

Have you ever needed to change the Volume ID on a pre-existing ISO file? I thought for sure there had to be a command-line tool that would allow for this. But after googling for over an hour I could only find 2 methods to do this.

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[one-liner]: Script to Cleanly Start Dropbox During a boot sequence on Linux (Fedora & CentOS)

Background

I’m an avid user of Dropbox. I run it on all my Linux and Windows systems, and it simply just works. However, one annoying thing that I’ve just dealt with for a while now on Linux, is when I reboot my laptop, Dropbox, doesn’t come up correctly due to the wireless network not being up […] Continue reading

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[one-liner]: Howto get Firefox 10.x to Launch a BitTorrent Client via a Magnet Link on Linux

Background

If you’ve ever used BitTorrent you’re probably familiar with having to download a .torrent file and then opening it in a BitTorent client such as Vuze (previously known as Azureus). You may not however be that familiar with magnet links, so called trackerless torrents.

The difference? Where a .torrent is a file that includes among other […] Continue reading

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[one-liner]: Using the Command lsb_release to Determine Linux Distro Version Info

Background

If you need to determine which version of Linux you’re using you can use the command lsb_release. It’s part of the Linux Standards Base which is a specification that was created by the Linux Foundation.

Solution

Obviously there are other ways to do this, for example, on a Redhat based system you can look for the file […] Continue reading

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How to Analyze Network Performance using iperf on Fedora, CentOS & Windows

I’ve been experiencing some slow network connections between a couple of Linux systems (CentOS), Window systems (Server 2008R2), and a NAS device (Netgear ReadyNAS) and wanted to confirm that my network connections weren’t the source of the problem. To limit any variability due to different tools, I decided to use iperf, which can run on […] Continue reading

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