xfce 4.8pre1 released
here is a link to the article. i had a chance to browse through the changelog and noticed a significant amount of changes. i will have to set up and try this out in slackware.
they also had a nice “tour” of xfce 4.6 a lot of the highlights in this article are improved upon in 4.8.
you can get the source for 4.8 here.
adobe with wine in slackware
i already had flash and photoshop installed on a windows vm and i wanted to see how it ran using wine in slackware. (i was getting sick of the marginal delay using vnc)
1) copy adobe over to linux
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Program FilesAdobeinto$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataAdobeinto$HOME/.wine/drive_c/users/Public/Application Data
2) export the adobe registry branch from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Adobe
3) install additional windows libraries using winetricks – sh winetricks vcrun2008 msxml3 atmlib gdiplus
4) import the registry file into wines registry
i managed to get photoshop working this way and i am having difficulty with flash. i will post more once i solve the problem.
windows xp port range
add a range of ports to the windows firewall (change the words start and end to your corresponding ports)
open up the command line and enter the following:
for /L %i in (start,1,end) do netsh firewall add portopening TCP %i "Port-range %i"
for example: (using wow’s port range as an example)
for /L %i in (6881,1,6999) do netsh firewall add portopening TCP %i "Port-range %i"
poll growing directory stats
# poll growing directory stats
for i in $(tree); do du -hs; tree|grep files; sleep 10; clock;done
freegeeksquad.com
a good place to go for free tech support. ask a question and typically within 24 – 48 hours it will be answered!
nmap
# syn scan: does not complete tcp connection
nmap -sS -T4
# ack scan: used to map out firewall rulesets
nmap -sA -T4
# tcp window scan
nmap -sW -T4
from the nmap man page: -T4 does the equivalent of --max-rtt-timeout 1250 --initial-rtt-timeout 500 --max-retries 6 and sets the maximum TCP scan delay to 10 milliseconds
burning an iso via the command line
# using dd
# dd does not have any statistics, so in order to know how long the process is going to take, do the following:
dd if=/path/to/input of=/path/to/output& pid=$!
while true; do kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; done
# dvd iso using growisofs
growisofs --dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdrw=/path/to/file.iso
# cd iso using cdrecord
cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=/dev/hda src.iso
# to mount an iso
mount -o loop /path/to/iso /where/you/want
photoshop cs4 help
i have decided i need to learn how to better use photoshop. i have googled all sorts of diiferent how-tos and seen that many people have written on the subject.
this site trumps them all and its from adobe.
zip a folder in the command line
# zip a folder in the command line
zip -9 -r filename.zip foldername/
netstat
# to see what connections are open, use
netstat -aln
# you can also grep this command for specific ports (i.e. – 21, 22 etc)
# to check active connections
netstat -p --inet
