Remastering shell

Here you will find basic and more advanced shell (console) usage and some tips to make your work more effective and to save you some time.

IP Validator

This is a simple script, which validates IP addresses, converts them into binary form and assign to an IP class.

KDE 4.6 - kmix eating up CPU

It happened to me few times, the CPU load was high because kmix was pretty hungry. It also stopped responding. The problem was in the corrupted profile file.

SSH Login (long delay problem)

If you wait a few second before the password prompt appears read this simple tip to fix it.

VIM tips

Vim is a shortcut for Vi IMproved and  it is a powerful console-based text editor.
This article briefly describes some useful operations and tips you can do in vim editor.

Unmounting removable drives

This script is for safe removal of devices such as USB flash drives, portable HDDs etc. It's written in bash and uses notifications for KDE about the devices state when unmounting.

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

Do you want to share your internet connection from one PC to other devices? ICS is the solution for you.
Setting up ICS is pretty simple...

TODO list for console (bash, python, perl)

Another script from my console-based scripts. It is very useful and simple. I use it with conky. Basicaly it is a very simple list of tasks, notes, TODOs, etc.

Unable to turn off touchpad on Ubuntu 10.10?

I ran into a situation, that the touchpad on Ubuntu 10.10 always enables itself after a while. If this has happened to you either, here's a solution for you.

KDE 4.6: desktop switching with mouse wheel

The fastest way to switch desktops in system is with the mouse wheel. In compiz, you could assign shortcuts for mouse switching, but in KDE (kwin) this is not possible. I really liked the mouse switching, so I created a small script to handle this...

Controlling mpd with notifications for Gnome 3 and KDE

If you're using media player daemon, this script might be useful for you. It can start the daemon, controll the playback, delete actual playing song and create notifications of the player state with gdbus.

Change the login screen background and icon on Ubuntu 10.10

In the newer versions of Ubuntu there is no option to directly set backgroud for the login screen. After a bit of googling I found an working technique.

Installing Windows XP on a Netbook

Netbooks are very popular these days. They are very portable and handy, but if you need to install  Windows on them, it can be a pain. Here I'll describe how to install Windows (XP) on a netbook.

Clonezilla - system backup tool

Creating backup of files is very important. It's handy to create from time too time backup of the operating system, in case that it will get broken for some reasons in the future.