Archlinux: Can’t find ifconfig

Archlinux dropped support for ifconfig “net-tools” sometime back. [announcement] To get the ip address use “ip” tool instead. ip addr show dev [device name] ip addr show dev enp2s0 If you really want ifconfig back then grab the “net-tools from the AUR.

2013-06-10 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Malaysiakini mirrors

Malaysia’s independent news provider Malaysia accessible through http://www.malaysiakini.com and http://m.malaysiakini.com/en might be down (.i.e blocked by our ISP) for many of you. Try these alternatives. Alternatives; http://www.mkini.co/ - Mirror https://twitter.com/malaysiakini - Twitter @malaysiakini https://www.facebook.com/MalaysiaKini - Facebook You can’t block the internet!! Get that through your thick skulls … This list will be updated as more mirrors show up so check back often. Update: http://www.malaysiakini.com/ https://www.malaysiakini.com/ http://m.malaysiakini.com/ http://www.mkini.co/ ...

2013-05-02 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

How To Install Spotify In Ubuntu

Follow this guide and you’ll get to enjoy Spotify’s Linux client. Note that it’s a preview release and is unsupported. Create a new source file for the Spotify repository. # sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list<br /> Add the following line into the source file. Add Spotify’s public key so that you can verify Spotify’s packages. sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59 deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free<br /> Update your sources ...

2013-04-05 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Log all Putty sessions by default

Putty has a feature to log your sessions to log files. This is a handy and I use it a lot. Comes in handy when you want to roll back what you did or to simply remember a command you ran. Session logging is not enabled by default but if you want logging enabled by default for all your sessions then here’s how. Fire up Putty and go to the “Logging” tab. Check “Printable output” option and insert your desired log file name and location into the location field. ...

2013-03-05 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Google voice and video installer error 1603

For some stupid reason my Google hangout and voice calls stopped working on my Windows machine. Removed the Google voice plugin and tried reinstalling it and got hit with a new error “Installer error 1603”. After some digging around the issue was narrowed down to either permissions or the windows installer service having some hangover files or registry entries from previous installs. The fix was to run Window’s FixIt to clean up the installer. This is what it does; ...

2013-03-04 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan