In this tutorial I will hopefully teach you how to configure and build a custom kernel. We’ll be using the unmodified generic Linux source code available here. Many Linux distributions sometimes add custom code to their kernel but for this example we’ll be using a pure Linux kernel. Creating a custom kernel can not only [...]

TXZ compression seems to be starting to take off in the Linux community. Slackware 13.0 is a Linux distribution that is  activley using XZ compression. Slackware used to use gzip and the .tgz extension was used. Now that XZ compression is used the new Slackware packages use the .txz extension. In order to uncompress .TXZ [...]

DIRUSE
Display disk usage

Syntax
DIRUSE [options] Folders…
Options
/M Display in Mb
/K Display in Kb
/B Display in bytes (default)
/, Use thousand separator when displaying sizes.
/Q:# Quota limit, mark folders that exceed the [...]

cal
Display a calendar

Syntax
cal [-mjy] [[month] year]

Options:

-m Display monday as the first day of the week.

-j Display julian dates (days one-based, numbered from January 1).

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awk or gawk (gnu awk)
Find and Replace text, database sort/validate/index

Syntax

awk <options> ‘Program’ Input-File1 Input-File2 …

awk -f PROGRAM-FILE <options> Input-File1 Input-File2 …

Key
-F FS
–field-separator FS
Use FS for the input field separator (the value of the [...]

STChat is a simple telnet chat server that runs on Linux, Windows and MAC. I’ve only tested this on Linux so i can’t speak for the other OS’s. The chat system is really simple, supports colors, multiple terminal types (vt100 etc), usernames and admin mode. Putty, Linux telnet, and Windows telnet seem to work just fine when [...]

This code will show you how to search for Windows Services. The ServiceController class handles almost everything service related. You can also check if services are running by checking the service.Status property and you can search for installed services using the sample code below. The services we are talking about are the services that run [...]

Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open [...]

This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]

The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]

This code will check through a list of installed Windows Services for a specific service name in C# (returns boolean). The function allows you to pass a service name as a string and the function will check the Windows Service list for that name. It will also look for partial service names in case you [...]

This code shows you how to extract email addresses out of text and HTML documents. Some day you may need to strip email address from text, for what reason you would want to do this I leave to you, but hopefully not for spam. You can also find phone numbers, web addresses and other patterned [...]

Has Verizon been hacked? Google Chrome seems to think so. Just a few minutes ago I tried to log into Verizon to see why my phone isn’t making any calls and to also see why I can’t make any text messages. I’m going to have to probably assume they haven’t been hacked, but how does [...]

Today I received my first piece of spam in Google Voice. At first I was really PISSED-OFF but then a feeling of serenity passed over my whole body as I noticed the “block” button. Slowly and cautiously I clicked it, making my day THAT MUCH better. Just knowing that I will no longer be getting [...]

Here is a short video which shows you what the melee game play is like in Fallen Earth. It’s basically a slashing style game play with no special moves or anything. There are some animations with some of the buffs but nothing as far as your physical movement.

Last December I picked up (downloaded) a copy of Fallen Earth as I was on the lookout for a new MMORPG game to get into. Fallen Earth’s end world theme seemed to be a good choice for me as I like the “mad-max” time period. After a few days of playing I quit, thinking it [...]