Andy Paton's most Technical Adventure

As fan of serial port consoles on my Sun SPARC servers, I do get fedup with slow console baud speeds. Setting console to 19200,8,n,1 on Solaris 10 Change console speed in the eeprom $ eeprom ttya-mode=baud-rate,8,n,1,- Set the console for ttymon $ vi /etc/ttydefs console:19200 hupcl opost onlcr:19200::console Repace /kernel/drv/options.conf with the following # 19200 :be: ttymodes="2502:1805:be:8a3b:3:1c:7f:15:4:0:0:0:11:13:1a:19:12:f:17:16";

Graphics configuration generated by SAX2 would only allow 640x480, due to miss identifing the RSAII capabilities. IBM RSAII is remote managment inbuild on IBM x346 and others. Edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, under Section "Device", as follows: Section "Device" Option "nodri" Identifier "ATI Radeon (generic)" Driver "vesa" VendorName "ATI Radeon (generic)" BoardName "ATI Radeon (generic)" EndSection Monitor Section add/change Option "dpms" "off" Section "Screen" ... ... DefaultDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Anaconda Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "USB_Mouse" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse0" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection

There are two ways to find which service pack is installed on Novell Enterprise Linux 9 $ cat /etc/SUSE-release | grep -i patchlevel $ SPident

I offen mount /usr as read only for small increase in security, but offen need to remount the /usr for patching. $ mount -n -o remount /usr

I like to watch system logs of Swatch and Apache 2 on the background. The command line is long and option rich! $ kstart --skiptaskbar --skippager --alldesktops --onbottom Eterm -x -O --buttonbar no --scrollbar no --no-cursor yes --geometry 80x25+5+20 -e tail -f /var/log/messages

Do you like me want all the power for that windows application, latest game or crack a password with cain . Kill all thoes services in the toolbar. Download PSKill from Sysinternals and save in the system path. Create a batch file (.bat) with your favourite editor (I use VIM ). This is mine below. c: type pskill-all.bat rem Kill batch File rem option -t needed when process has children! pskill.exe -t GoogleDesktop.e pskill.exe nettime.exe pskill.exe eraser.exe pskill.exe pageant.exe pskill.exe firefox.exe pskill.exe soffice.exe pskill.exe ClamTray.exe pskill.exe justshed.exe pskill.exe realsched.exe pskill.exe PccNTMon.exe

Build some documentation for a customer and required some screenshots, KDE has Ksnaphot . But I wanted many screen shots and need a simple cli command to capture various screens. ImageMagik provides the " import " command which does just the job from the command line. To capture the whole desktop as a JPEG use the following. $ import -window root screen.jpg To save in a diffrent grapics format change the extention of the output file. (gif,pnm,pmm,tiff etc..) To capture single window ie firefox You need to find the window name, two methods of getting the "window name" 1. use xwininfo, which will then ask you to click target window and display information. 2. xlsclients -l display list of windows Note you can use a window title or the DECIMAL window ID, xwininfo and xlsclients output in HEX. $ import -window WINDOW ID DECIMAL > screen1.jpg $ import -window " WINDOWS TITLE >" screen2.jpg

Ive been unable to get a SSH2 connection with compression on my WindowsXP/2003 boxes using SSH clients Putty and WinSCP to my Gentoo development machine (gendesk). The changes I had made recently update to OpenSSH_4.2p1 (OpenSSL 0.9.7e). OpenSSH 4.2 has a "Compression delayed" option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config which protects the zlib (compression) library until authentification has been achived. Putty doesn't support "Compression delayed" option and ssh clients that use Putty code such as WinSCP will have teh same problem. Workaround Change "Compression delayed" option to "Compression yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.