Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Very Secure FTP server

Folder sharing with FTP is fast and simple way how to exchange and share data between computers. Find out how to setup vsftp daemon.

Monday, May 30, 2011

DHCP server

Do you have small network or you are just lazy to setup IP addresses? You can run your own DHCP server to do this for you.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

GRUB2 howto

GRUB2 has a lot of new functions. His configuration has changed compared to the earlier version.
Here is described how to set up few basic things.

Installing Windows over the network (LAN)

This howto demonstrates steps to install Windows XP, Vista and Seven over the network.

Moving on...

I am continuing with posts translation and I'd like to rewrite some of my scripts (maybe all of them) into perl and python language.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Friday, May 20, 2011

New mail count

This script is for showing new/unread email count in your INBOX.
You can use with conky or as a standalone script.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Conky - monitoring your system

Conky is a high customizable tool, which displays various system information and has a lot of option.

How to boot linux from USB flash drive

If you need to install or just to try out some linux distribution and you don't have free CD/DVD or you don't want to burn it, this article is for you.

Creating SWAP space from a file

If you don't have SWAP on your system and you need it, you can create it from a file.

Using sudo command without password

Is it annoying for you always entering the password when using sudo command?
Or you just need certain program/script to run with sudo without prompting for password?
If you've answered yes to one of the above questions, then this article is for you.

kosd - on screen notifications for KDE

If you don't like default KDEs notification for volume and brightness adjusting, try kosd.

Weather script (for Slovakia) (bash, perl, python)

This script displays weather for cities: BA, KE and PO.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Nameday (with Slovak names) (bash, perl, python)

This is a simple script to show whos nameday is today...

x11vnc VNC Server

Do you need remote connection to your desktop and you don't have time for complicated VNC server setup?

MAC address change


I suppose that not everyone knows how to change MAC address on Linux system, so this howto may come handy.

Splitting large files

Simple howto split large file into several parts.

Regular temp cleaning

If the temp directory gets pretty big, it can slow down your system or you can have insufficient space on your harddisk. Therefore is good to clean temporary files from time to time.

Midnight Commander settings/theme change

If MC is not saving your settings or you want to change its appearance, this howto is for you.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Removing password/copy protection from PDF documents

If you're working with several PDF documents and each one is protected with a different password, it can be pretty annoying to always enter the passwords.

Do you need to copy something from a PDF document, but it's copy-protected?
With this few simple steps you can get rid of these problems.

First post and translation bar

I had some time so I posted my first article to this blog. You can find it in the section openSuSE.

Also you can translate my blog page by selecting your language in the Translate this page widget.

openSuSE bootsplash, theme change

Here you can find instructions how to change openSuSE's bootsplash screen.


Saturday, May 14, 2011

Preparing for migration...

As you can see, the design of the page has changed, probably to his final appearance.

In the upcoming time I will start with migrating and translating articles from my old blog page http://krisko.xf.cz

You can follow me on my twitter page https://twitter.com/#!/krisko210

Saturday, May 7, 2011

What this will be...

I'm going to create blog mainly for my personal use.
It will contain information, scripts and howto's for Linux operating system.
Based on this you can make customizations to your own system.