Before you let your imagination run wild, READ UP. No, we not going to make immoral citizens out of you?:-). Hacking is the art of mastering and modifying any activity for the sheer fun and challenges that pop up. Hacking is often misunderstood to be the act of breaking and entering computer networks for financial and destructive purposes. This is CRACKING. A hacker in a general sense could be anyone who takes immense interest in what he does and derives pleasure out of it. It could be your plumber, carpenter or even your postman. A hacker need not be a computer programmer although this article will refer to the computer hacker.
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Setup Samba As Primary Domain Controller
Setup SAMBA as Primary Domain Cotroller When configuring Samba to act as an NT Primary Domain Controller, we’ll need to make extensive edits to our…
know more about your network
Ever tried to know more about your networtk like what is your network address and your default gateway and routing rules etc try ifconfig and…
tac — Concatenate and Print files in reverse order.
Mr Anand Babu (FSF-India Member) has developed the BiosConfig tool,
which reads/writes fields in the CMOS non-volatile store, most of
which are associated with various functions of the BIOS.
URL: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/biosconfig
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tac — Concatenate and Print files in reverse order.
Summary:
`tac’ copies each file to standard output, reversing the records
(lines by default) in each separately. It is doing the reverse
function of the CAT command (TAC).
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Recover files from Linux filesystem
Recovering files from the Linux filesystem can be done using many software as well as inbuilt tools in Gnu/Linux R-Linux this is for recovering files…
umount — UnMount File System
BZip2 Translator Tool is developed by Venkataraman, Ankur and Shikka.
Using this translator, when mapped on a file, you can do bzip
compressed I/O (Like Read, Seek, Length).
URL: http://www.gnu-india.org/pipermail/gnu-india/20010307/000113.html
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umount — UnMount File System
Summary:
The umount command detaches the file system(s) mentioned from the file
hierarchy. A file system cannot be unmounted when it is `busy’, For
example, when there are open files on it, or when some process has its
working directory there, or when a swap file on it is in use.
How to build your own Gnu/Linux distribution
Go to the source to learn Gnu/Linux basics and build the right Linux for you. Linux From Scratch (LFS) and its descendants represent a new…
Gain of performance for harddisk by using 32bits transfers
Gain of performance for harddisk by using 32bits transfers
adding the line
hdparm -c3 /dev/hdX
to a bootup script. For SuSE and probably other SYS V based systems
/sbin/init.d/boot.local works fine.
This enable 32 bit X-fer for you harddisk. On some systems it boost xfer
performance by 75%.
To test how much you gained type:
hdparm -t -T /dev/hdX
fsck — Linux File System Check and Repair Tool.
Gipi, a console based jumble like puzzle game is developed by
Mr Dinker Charak. URL: http://sarovar.org/projects/gipi/
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fsck — Linux File System Check and Repair Tool.
Summary:
‘fsck’ is used to check and optionally repair one or more Linux file
systems. If no file-systems are specified on the command line, fsck
will default to checking file-systems in /etc/fstab file.
In actuality, fsck is simply a front-end for the various file system
checkers (fsck.cramfs, fsck.ext2, fsck.ext3, fsck.jfs, fsck.msdos,
fsck.reiserfs, fsck.vfat, …) available under GNU/Linux OS.
chkconfig — Update/Show runlevel information for system services.
ndiX (Indian Language support for GNU/Linux OS), A modified X server
to support Indian languages using OpenType Fonts. Uses Unicode.
URL: http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix (Thanks FUG-Bglr)
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chkconfig — Update/Show runlevel information for system services.
Summary:
‘chkconfig’ provides a simple command-line tool for maintaining the
/etc/rc[0-6].d directory hierarchy by relieving system administrators
of the task of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in
those directories.
A runlevel is a software configuration of the system which allows only
a selected group of processes to exist (man init).
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