In a previous post i’ve presented you 3 space games, today i add one to that list: Oolite Oolite is a space sim game, inspired by Elite, powered by Objective-C and OpenGL, and designed as a small game that is easy for users to pick up, modify and expand upon. Almost every aspect of the […]
readlink – Follow links for you
Sometimes happen that you find a sequence of links, and so you should start to follow them to see exactly what command are you about to run, or the directory used in that symbolic link, or you can use readlink. readlink it’s contained in the package coreutils, so you should already have it. The basic […]
Logcheck – Scan your logs and warns you.
On our server we have (or you should have) tons of logs generated, logs from various daemons (ssh, iptables, monit, fail2ban), services (apache. nginx, bind, ftp, etc.) and system logs (syslog, messages, kernel). So i’m sure that every day you check these logs and look if something bad has happened, right ? Well, perhaps i’m […]
Doudoulinux 1.0 Released
I’ve received some information from Jean-Michel regarding DoudouLinux a project he’s leading, you can read an interview with him and more info on Doudou in a former article. I’ve browsed a bit their site and i’ve also noticed a new and better graphic and much more info on how to setup and use this distribution, but now […]
Detecting and changing the encoding of text files.
Today post is by Juan Valencia, originally posted on his blog (available also in spanish there), i’ve found it really interesting with in deep articles regarding rsync,ssh and other commands. When you receive and need to handle multiple text files that use characters that are not natural to the English language, you may run into […]