{"id":1044,"date":"2007-11-25T20:23:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T20:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/25\/linux-terminal-fun\/"},"modified":"2007-11-25T20:23:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T20:23:38","slug":"linux-terminal-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/linux-terminal-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Terminal Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A handful of cool tricks you can do with the Linux Terminal. If you have a Linux Terminal. If you don’t, you should consider getting one.<\/p>\n

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Everything you always wanted to know about your hardware and for the most part did not even know you could know.<\/dt>\n
The command dmidecode<\/strong> is ” is a tool for dumping a computer’s DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system’s hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision.” (from the “man”).You need to be the Super User to run this command, for security reasons. And, so much crap comes out all at once that you need to pipe it through the “more” command to read it. In other words, type this into the command line:sudo dmidecode | more”sudo” means “super user do” … and will cause the system to ask for your password. The “|” thingie “pipes” the output of dmidecode to the command “more” which, in turn, fills one screen of your terminal at a time . Just hit the space bar to … read more.This command will be useful if you need to know how much memory you have, what kind of processor you have, etc. <\/dd>\n
Remote Desktop<\/dt>\n
If you want to hook up to a distant computer using your local computer (like accessing your home computer from your laptop), there are ways to do that in Windows that don’t work that well and may cost you money (for third party software), and maybe you can do it in a Mac. But in Linux, it is now and always has been easy, effective, secure, and free. And it’s not that hard to do. Here<\/a> is a pretty good post telling you how to do it. <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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