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Creating an UEFI bootable Linux USB stick

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:48:18 +0000

This article explains how to create a bootable USB stick with Linux that can be used to boot UEFI-systems.

Time conversion using Bash

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:52:07 +0000

This article show how you can obtain the UNIX epoch time (number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC) using the Linux bash “date” command. It also shows how you can convert a UNIX epoch time to a human readable time.

Configure static IP Debian Linux

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:28:36 +0000

The purpose of this small message is to show how you can configure a static IP address in Debian Linux. I know that other sites have more detailed explanations on this (and the man page too), but I put it here mostly as a reminder to myself.

Concatenating lines with sed

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:11:58 +0000

An example of how you can concatenate lines from an input file using the sed command line tool.

Nagios plugin to check the currently used bandwidth

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:51:09 +0000

This page shows you how you can create a Nagios plugin to check how much bandwidth the server is currently using. In order to do this, we will use the tool vnstat. This tools offers the functionality to check how much bandwidth you use over the last 5 seconds.

Automatically redirect non-existing pages to the home page in Apache

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:39:29 +0000

How to configure Apache so that requests for non-existing pages are redirected to the home page.

Finding SGID files

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:32:14 +0000

How to find SGID files.

Finding SUID files

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:46:56 +0000

How to find SUID files.

Using openssh without a password

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:17:47 +0000

How to configure OpenSSH to use SSH keys for authentication instead of a password.

Using sed

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:05:21 +0000

Some more advanced examples of how to use the sed command in Linux.

POSIX character classes

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:19:42 +0000

Some of the character classes to use in regular expressions.

CD Burning using the shell

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:05:05 +0000

How to burn CD’s using only bash.