Category Archives for Linux
How to run scripts in Linux faster than Cron does
Cron is an amazing job scheduler. But, when it comes to running your scripts in less than every minute, it can’t help. With Cron, you can run your scripts every minute, but not in shorter period of time. This problem can … Continue reading
Linux gets frozen, what do you do?
Somehow, you crashed your Linux. It’s completely frozen. You try pressing Ctrl + Alt + Backspace, but doesn’t help. What to do? Someone would press the power button and restart or shut down the system. You shouldn’t do this. This … Continue reading
You’re in the front of a Linux computer, you need a root access. What do you do?
So, imagine that you are in front of some Linux computer to which you don’t have any access. How do you get a root access? Restart the computer, in Grub menu choose (recovery mode) and on the next screen select … Continue reading
Test Download Speed From Console
If you sometimes need to check download speed on a remote computer, to which you are connected through console, here is a nice tip how to do this: wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Yes, simple as that. Download a 100 MB test file using … Continue reading
3 Twitter Search Ideas You (Probably) Don’t Know About
Last few days I was working on developing simple Twitter console client in Perl, and I got some interesting results while playing with Twitter search. Have you ever thought that you can find some ideas for startup on Twitter? Well, … Continue reading