coolest thing you've done in linux, part II

frieza · 06-25-2011, 12:52 PM

instead of digging up a really old, really long thread i figured it's time to start a new one here

i'll start off with a short list of cool things things i've done recently

WYSE terminal+old green screen attached to composite out of nvidia video card

Code:

$ export DISPLAY=:0.1 vlc {playlist}.pls

(run from WYSE terminal on /dev/ttyS0)

hamachi+sshfs+chroot :P

wintv PVR + mencoder + cron

replaced firmware of linksys router with dd-wrt

Knightron · 02-08-2012, 05:58 PM

well it may not be very advanced but I'm still noobing around. I have learnt about the flexibility of Linux and for my desktop environment i have settled on a hybrid xfce/gnome2 with kwin window manager.

frieza · 02-16-2012, 12:46 PM

Code:

cd `pwd | sed -e 's/{oldpathlement}/{newpathelement}/g' [-e's/{oldpathlement}/{newpathelement}/g' ...]`

especially useful when working on a server that hosts websites due to the similar but rather deep nature of the paths involved.

kuser:) · 02-16-2012, 01:25 PM

I resized my Windows XP NTFS partitions by using Ubuntu's disk manager (GParted?) from the Live CD.
Later, M$ stole this idea, and now it's built-in their newer products.

Knightron · 02-16-2012, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kuser:)

I resized my Windows XP NTFS partitions by using Ubuntu's disk manager (GParted?) from the Live CD.
Later, M$ stole this idea, and now it's built-in their newer products.

hello kuser. just wanted to let you know. I've used Microsoft's partition editor on windows 7 and it is inferier to gparted. it limits the amount you can shrink the windows partition. it will also refuse to remove some of windows hidden partitions.