At work we setup Asterisk PBX phone systems along with our own Perl scripts for various purposes. Asterisk is an open source PBX phone system that works with Soft Phones and Hard Phones. I installed and setup Asterisk on my work laptop with a software VoixPhone (SIP/IAX). The one thing with Asterisk is that each [...]

From: http://wiki.debian.org/DateTime Set the time manually via the terminal cli When setting the time manually, the time string may be confusing. The command date –set … accepts the date and time in many formats. You can read the ShUtils info document, or use the example below to figure out one possible format. The date is [...]

So you’ve just installed Ubuntu or PcLinuxOS and you’ve decided that all those GUI’s and point ‘n’ click applications are just like Windows. You’ve had Linux for a week or so and you’ve caught the Über-Geek-Hacker bug and have decided to see what you can do via the terminal like the real Geeks do. How [...]

Here is a list of Cli commands which provide valuable information when trying to configure    your wireless connection sudo iwlist scanning – shows wireless networks that are available in the area with basic encryption information sudo lshw -C network – Shows Details of Interface card and drivers of each networking device sudo lspci -nn – [...]

Here is a list of Cli commands which provide valuable information when trying to configure your wireless connection sudo iwlist scanning – shows wireless networks that are available in the area with basic encryption information sudo lshw -C network – Shows Details of Interface card and drivers of each networking device sudo lspci -nn – [...]