Ever since I started using DeVeDe I quite missed a feature of Nero DVD creation software - ‘Shutdown when complete’ as I usually keep for convertion from XVid/DivX to DVD during the night. The process usually takes 4 hours, hence it would waste of electricity to keep the computer on for another 3 hours. So I searched for various options to shutdown the computer after predetermined time, the most popular one being use of cron....
In Gnome the show desktop is by default mapped to Ctrl + Alt + d, if you would like to change it to something else the easiest way out is using the System –> Preferences –> Keyboard shortcuts. Though this is the easiest way those of you who are like me, would like to use the Windows Key + d. This is not possible using the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ window as it shows ‘Windows Key’ as ‘Super L’ and does not allow to enter any additional key, so to acheive the ‘Windows Key + d’ for ‘Show Desktop’ you would have to run the following command in the terminal to get that done:...
Lately I have been looking at improving my command line skills in Linux, and here is a quick tip to truncate a file to zero byte file, helpful to empty huge log files quickly. :>filename or you can also use the common method which make more sense: cat /dev/null > filename So enjoy and let me know any command line tricks if you know.
vnStat is a simple console based network traffic monitoring software. It is light weight and provides detailed statistics of the network traffic. The statistics can be hourly, daily, monthly, yearly etc. One important feature of vnStat is that it runs as a daemon and monitors the interface, so it does not matter if the interface is not up when you start vnStat, it will start collecting statistics once the interface is up....