Tuesday 26 February 2013

Linux : List files and directorys changes in last 30 days

 find . -mtime -30 -exec ls -ald {} \;

Friday 22 February 2013

Squeezebox : Reset config by running from command line

java -DdeletePreferences=true -jar SoftSqueeze.jar

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Dell Service tags from the command line

windows :
wmic csproduct get vendor,name,identifyingnumber
 wmic bios get serialnumber

linux :
/usr/sbin/dmidecode -s system-serial-number # As root

Thursday 14 February 2013

MacBook : Spoof Mac Address until reboot

ifconfig en1 ifconfig en1 lladdr 7c:d1:c3:72:c4:d7 ifconfig en1

Sunday 20 January 2013

Centos: Network proxy popup when X starts for VNC session

Gives this messages as a popup "Authentication is required to set the network proxy used for downloading packages" Fix - disable the start of gpk-update among the various gnome startup packages vi /etc/xdg/autostart/gpk-update-icon.desktop # Add to bottom of file X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

Mac - Hash key on UK keyboard

Alt + 3