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Entries for May, 2009

Safely destroy data

To safely destroy data we can use the following command: shred file Where file is the file you want to destroy. This command does not delete the file but it writes random data on it. By default the data overwrites with garbage 25 times what is more than enough to meet the standards of [...]

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Reports on our graph

The following command informs us what the graphics hardware of our system. lspci | grep VGA Y-C sudo lshw will display more detailed information on the graphics card installed in our system.

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VirtualBox Shared Folders in Windows guest

When the operating system we have running in a virtual machine is Windows you can also use the Shared Folders feature. Using shared folders to a folder you can access our des Ubuntu on the Windows guest. To use this feature we have installed the "host applications" on your machine [...]

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Encrypts a file using base64

If you want to encrypt a file with the base64 algorimo can use the following command cat file | base64> where file encryption will encrypt the file you want and the resulting encrypted file to decrypt base64 encoded with a command like cat will use encryption | base64-d where File Encryption is the encoding algorithm [...]

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Desktop themes for Jaunty Jackalope ZgegBlog

The truth is I do not normally the aesthetic passion is to have Ubuntu or any other operating system. I usually just the topic that comes by default, tend to be well designed and be aesthetically pleasing without being heavy or tiring to the eye. But I recognize that these issues [...]

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