I recently needed to convert some mp3 audio files to ogg format so that the html5 audio tag could play them in mozilla firefox. Had to search a bit to find out how to do this easily and here are the results. There is an excellent application called soundconverter ( soundkonverter for kde users )…. Read More »
Open ports When doing a lot of socket programming, it often happens that a server program when recompiled/rerun fails to bind to a particular port number because that port number is already in use. To close the port number manually first the process name/id has to be found out that is holding the port open… Read More »
Nameservers are special servers running a DNS service to provide the ip address of a particular domain name. Different domains have different nameservers. Usually the nameservers are hosted and managed by the hosting server provider. If you are hosting your website on Bluehost for instance, the nameservers would be those of bluehost. Whereas if you… Read More »
Dropdown terminal is a very useful utility that shows a command line terminal in a dropdown popup on the screen just by pressing a button like F12. These provide easy access to the command line and enhance productivity on Linux Desktop. There are multiple packages available for Ubuntu and similar distros, that provide a dropdown… Read More »
Arp-scan Arp-scan is a commandline utility for linux that can be used to scan the network of a certain interface for alive hosts. It shows the ip address and mac addresses of all the hosts/nodes found. Project website Install on ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install arp-scan The documentation can be found at Usage Quick example… Read More »
The most common compressed archive file format in Linux is the tar.gz format. Tar file is an archive file format. Tar.gz is a compressed tar file. Create tar.gz archives The tar command can be used to create tar.gz archives. tar czf new-tar-file-name.tar.gz file-or-folder-to-archive Here is the command explanation: c – create new archive. z -… Read More »
SQLite Database Browser is a freeware, public domain, open source visual tool used to create, design and edit database files compatible with SQLite. It is meant to be used for users and developers that want to create databases, edit and search data using a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, without the need to learn complicated SQL commands…. Read More »
Here is a list of most popular puzzle games on Ubuntu Linux Marble Arena 2 Excellent graphics and colorful. This is a game where a marble is to be moved around and points to be collected. Project website http://www.marble-arena.com/ Install on ubuntu 1. Download Linux version from http://www.marble-arena.com/ 2. Install libwebkit1.1-cil from synaptic 3. Extract… Read More »
There are a lot of IDEs for ubuntu for doing php related web development. Lets see a few. Aptana Studio Supports PHP, Ruby, Python and more. Autosuggest dropdowns available, Integrated preview available. Project website http://www.aptana.com/ Install on ubuntu Download from http://www.aptana.com/ Quanta Quanta is the Dreamweaver of Linux. However it is not developed anymore. As… Read More »
How to setup a jailed shell on Ubuntu using jailkit.