Category : Linux

Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “Terminal” from dash. When it opens, run command: xrandr It outputs current screen resolution as well as all available solutions. ALL I need here is the display device name, in my case, it’s eDP-1. 2. Run command to calculate VESA CVT mode lines by given resolution: cvt 1600 900 Replace 1600 900 (1600X900 ..

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Just to explain the format of /etc/shadow again, and the command above. sudo is needed because getent accesses ‘shadow’ which is root read only, others no access. The variable $USER is you, the currently logged in user. The output is the line from /etc/shadow related to your account: <Username>:<encpwd>:….(other data). where <encpwd> is your encrypted password. the format of <encpwd> ..

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# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4096 # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=4096 $ wipe -r -q /path/to/wipe   shred shred (from the coreutils package) is a Unix command that can be used to securely delete individual files or full devices so that they can be recovered only with great difficulty with specialised hardware, if at all. By default shred uses three passes, ..

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For Command Line Lovers For command line lovers like me the best utility to burn a .iso to USB drive is „dd”. Insert the USB drive and open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) better be a root (sudo -i), don’t be afraid believe in yourself use „fdisk -l”  to find the USB device     So in our case ..

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