Month: May 2010

  • Remote support and process manipulation

    Sometimes I help friends that make their first steps in Linux world/shell scripting/etc. I’ve found that the best way to give remote technical support is over a “shared” terminal window. It can be done with screen commnad (short tutorial here) or kibitz which is part of the standard expect package. The basic operation is similar:…

  • Sending mail from command line

    Recently I wanted to add mail sending functionality to one of my scripts. This script runs on my desktop computer, so no fancy company mail servers/fixed IP/DNS records for me. When I googled it up I saw many different methods in varying complexity. My need was the simplest you can think of- just to send…

  • USB Multibooting

    I recently wanted to add multiboot support to my usb disk-on-key. I mainly use it for casual file transfers/play music on my car, but I also got BackTrack installed on it. From time to time I get to use it on a frined’s computer. BackTrack is one of many “live cd” operating systems, meaning you…

  • Cool command line stuff

    I made this list of cool things you can do from shell especially for desktop users. They all work on my ubuntu and most of them generic (except maybe apt-get which works for debian based distrubtions). The list is not ordered or categorized. It’s really just a bunch of things a little different from the…

  • Faking the Green Robot – Part 2

    It has been long time since Part 1, but I’ve been busy with other stuff. In the previous part, I started analyzing how “Green Robot” feature can be faked, or more precisely, how Android is identified by google talk servers. Last thing I found out was that Android’s talk application securely connects to gtalk servers.…