by Ron | Aug 29, 2008 | Linux, Uncategorized
I contributed to a Handbrake forum a while back. Thought you might find it useful too. This is my evolving script for transcoding DVDs from MacTheRipper. 1) Save the file in a logical place (I keep it in the Movies Folder… same place I rip movies to). It will...
by Ron | Aug 15, 2008 | Apple
I can never remember the path to the hosts file on my MacBook Pro. So, here it is: sudo nano /private/etc/hosts
by Ron | Aug 13, 2008 | Linux
To find what flavor of Linux you’re using: cat /etc/*-release To find the version, use: uname -a
by Ron | Aug 1, 2008 | Linux
This doesn’t work perfectly, but I often use it to start tracking down disk hogs: To return the 10 largest items in a given directory: du -cksh * |sort -rn |head -11 Some times it’s helpful to view all du -cksh * |sort -rn If someone has a better approach,...
by Ron | Aug 1, 2008 | Linux, Uncategorized
Looking for a log to show you failed login attempts to your Linux machine? Look in: /var/log/btmp You can access it by running: /usr/bin/lastb It’s similiar to the wtmp log of user login/logouts and the utmp log showing who is currently logged...
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