I’ve been using VirtualBox for months for several reasons and recently I’ve been forced to use only the free version of vbox (without the Extensions Pack), which doesn’t include the sweet bits of VRDP server among other things. I wanted to boot my virtual machines headless and access it using VNC which doesn’t come by [...]
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Macbook Pro External Display
I own a macbook for 2 years now and only a few months ago I needed to connect my Macbook to an external display “only”, meaning that I want to close the laptop lid and work on a huge external display with an external keyboard and mouse to save the screen and to enjoy everything [...]
Screen Tricks
If you are using the famous ‘screen‘ command and you are using ‘windows‘ in screen alot then you might find it pretty useful to add the following lines in either your /etc/screenrc or ~/.screenrc file. hardstatus alwayslastline hardstatus string ‘%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %d/%m %{W}%c %{g}]‘ shelltitle “$ |bash” This will add [...]
Linux Anti Netcut V0.2
The famous ARP Poisoning problem started to spread here in egypt and while we are putting the main problems an engineer or specifically an egyptian engineer may face, we found that Netcut problem is one of the major I’ve developed a small script to magically terminate this issue, this is an Intelligent Anti netcut script, [...]
Mplayer With Arabic Subtitles FIX
Well, this is my first contribution to “HackRoot” The CAT Distro – Based on Fedora. There is a very common problem regarding arabic subtitles in Linux video players, I’ve googled and found some old patches with ugly ideas (it was best at their time, because fribidi didn’t support arabic shaping), but now after fribidi2 (beta) [...]
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