Print from DOS app from any shared printer on Windows XP

The hard drive in my father’s computer (which was actually my old computer, an AMD K6-2 450 running Windows 98) just crashed late last week. Usually, in my experience, you […]

Understanding the Unix/Linux filesystem structure

I learned most of the file system of linux and freebsd by experience. For example, I learned that to modify your display resolution, you modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Other config files are […]

Batch copy files in Windows

Typically when I used to copy, backup, or move data, I would use Windows Explorer (the GUI interface). It is simple to use and very visual. However, whenever an error […]

Get properties of X11 windows

I use fvwm, a pretty configurable window manager. In order to set some styles, in order to make certain apps always appear a certain way or on a certain workspace, […]

Verizon HTC Incredible 2.3.4 OTA Update

Update: This procedure also worked fof the latest build update Verizon pushed out: Build Number: 4.08.605.2 The Verizon OTA update to gingerbread came out a few weeks ago for the […]

Access Dell Recovery Partion on older Dells

Many newer computers come with a built-in recovery partition. To access it, there is usually a message at immediate boot, during BIOS check that may something like “Press F12 to […]

Connect to or listen on a specific port with netcat

Server: nc -l Client: nc

Get your IP address without ads.

I was tired of using another site to get my IP, which was full of content I do no need, so I wrote my own. This one is easy to […]

grep for multiple words,for this OR that

I used to forget to escape the pipe sign when grepping for more than 1 word. grep “this|that” *

Use sed to quickly remove a line from a file

Our system admin seems to reinstall hosts quite often, and so the ssh host key changes often for various hosts. I’ll see something like this semi-often, resulting in me not […]

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