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.
Quick guide on how to compile and install jailkit on Ubuntu/Debian based linux systems.
I upgraded my ubuntu few hours back from 11.04 to 11.10 ; it all went fine. After the upgrade I noticed that Quanta – my favorite php development tool had vanished. Doing few searches on google lead to the information that its now deprecated and not maintained in the repos anymore. So I got it… Read More »
The traceroute utility can be installed from synaptic : $ sudo apt-get install traceroute Some Information : $ traceroute -V Modern traceroute for Linux, version 2.0.15, Oct 17 2010 Copyright (c) 2008 Dmitry Butskoy, License: GPL v2 or any later Doing some test runs $ traceroute www.google.com traceroute to www.google.com (74.125.235.20), 30 hops max, 60… Read More »
Suphp Suphp php handler is an apache module (mod_suphp) that runs php scripts with ownership and permission of a specific user. This is seen as a security enhancement since the system can keep track of which user’s php script is running (and causing problems if any). In shared hosting environments suphp is very popular since… Read More »
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing or in simple terms its ‘Remote Desktop’. It allows a system to access the desktop of another system. Now lets see how vnc can be done on ubuntu. Install Packages $ sudo apt-get install vnc4server xvnc4viewer 1. vnc4server – This is the vnc server application. It is run on… Read More »
Here is a list of port scanners that work on Ubuntu/Linux. 1. Angry IP Scanner Download and Install from http://www.angryip.org/ Fast and easy to use network scanner and port scanner. To scan ports got to Tools > Preferences > Ports > Port Selection Enter the ports you want to scan Start the scan. 4. Nmap… Read More »
VCDs that are played on vcd players often contain the video in dat format. The dat format is internally mpeg only but has some additional header information attached. So the mpeg portion has to be ripped off to get the mpeg format. Once converted to mpeg format, it can be processed inside any video editor…. Read More »
As you all know Ruby is one of the most popular programming language on the web. It is recommended to install ruby 1.9.2 instead of 1.8.x I tried to install ruby from the package manager on Ubuntu, but ruby 1.9.2 is not there in the repo. So, I am going to show you how to… Read More »
Apache mod expires mod expires is an Apache module that can send additional expiry information about a server file to a browser. If the expiry date is set to a far future date, then the browser will fetch the file from its cache on next request and will not contact the server. This will speed… Read More »
Install Xdebug Install the packages from synaptic package manager sudo apt-get install php5-dev php5-xdebug Configure php to use xdebug extension Locate the path to xdebug.so file martin@martin-dev:/$ find / -name 'xdebug.so' 2> /dev/null /usr/lib/php5/20060613/xdebug.so An alternative command to find the xdebug.so file is using dpkg and grep as follows $ dpkg -L php5-xdebug | grep… Read More »
This page http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/cgi.html describes how to give each user his own cg-bin directory. The following lines should be added to the Apache configuration file http.conf : <Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin> Options ExecCGI SetHandler cgi-script </Directory> Along with this there are some more points to be kept in mind. If you .htaccess file has a section like this… Read More »
Gnome MDB viewer is a simple tool to open and view mdb (microsoft access database) files on Ubuntu or Linux Mint. It shows the database structure and the data in it
Many software applications for linux are available in the form of source code which needs to be compiled. The general process to compile such software is by running the configure, make and make install commands. After the install process the files get installed in the system directories and the software can be run from the… Read More »
We have compiled a list of the most popular, free and open source games that you can play on your ubuntu or any linux system.