add : echo "Current Weather in Nürnberg" ansiweather -l 2861650 to : /etc/update-motd.d/01-custom...

edit : sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf add a section like this : [sharename] path = /path/to/folder available = yes valid users = root read only = no browsable = yes public = yes writable = yes restart t...

To get an ethX and wlanX back, edit the grub file. sudo vim /etc/default/grub Look for : *GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and add the following net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0.* and change from: *GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""...

mount -t smbfs -o username='{your username}',password={yourpassword} //{serverip}/{shared directory name} /mnt/{folder where you want to mount the share}...

Boot from a live cd / USB drive, then in the terminal: mount / -n -o remount.rw passwd mount / -n -o remount.ro /sbin/reboot...

to batch resize images ... sudo apt install imagemagick then run ... for file in *.jpg; do convert $file -resize 1280 $file; done this will destructively resize all the jpgs in the current directory t...

note : P{8} Runs these conversions with 8 different processes ls *.NEF | sed 's#.NEF##' | xargs -P8 -I^ convert ^.NEF ^.jpg (from http://superuser.com/questions/577643/how-do-i-batch-convert-thousands...

Cloning a USB pendrive to another is easy ... in linux ... use blkid to find the two drives example output : origin = /dev/sdd destination = /dev /sde the command is : dd if=/dev/sdd of=/dev/sde bs=4M...

Can't find that windows PC in your network list because the IP doesn't match the hostname? Clear your DNS Cache in Linux ... sudo /etc/init.d/dns-clean restart or sudo /etc/init.d/networking force-rel...