Yahoo, it only took four to five tries over a span of four years to get Games Cheat successfully added to DMOZ. I last submitted my site to DMOZ about 5 months ago and forgot about it. I was pleasantly…
Using grep/egrep to find out which file contains a word or string in Unix or Linux
If you need to find out which file in a directory contains a specific word then the grep command is your friend. Here is an example, if you wanted to find out which file in the directory /home contains the…
Success, failure of the tar command recorded with time and date stamp
I needed to determine the amount of time it would take to archive large amount of data on my unix server. If I had infinite amount of free time I could sit in front of the screen with a stop…
How to delete a file or directory with special characters using the inode in Unix or Linux
My fat fingers inadvertently created a directory on my unix server with special characters. I could not access this directory nor could I delete it. When I listed the directory using the command ls –b, I could see all the…
Cheat Codes for Warcraft III
Tired of getting slaughtered by the computer, use the cheat codes. My favourite one is GreedIsGood (not case sensitive). To activate a code simply press the enter key, type in the code (and the option if avaiable), and hit enter…
How to change the hostname in Solaris 10
To change the hostname in Solaris 10 you need to edit 3 files and appply the new name. /etc/nodename /etc/hostname.*interface, e.g. hostname.bge0 /etc/inet/hosts this file is a hard link to /etc/inet/ipnodes. You will need to make /etc/inet/ipnodes writable before editing…