Tips and Tricks

SSH is sometimes the only mode of access you have to a server. So how do you instantly determine the distro in use?
The following would work for most popular distributions (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.):
cat /etc/*-release

“grep” is a useful Linux tool allowing the user to print lines matching a specific search pattern. Most popular uses is by “piping” the output of one command to “grep” (such as cat /path/to/file | grep findme...

It’s sometimes useful to be able to change a file’s modification date. Linux makes it easy by simply using the “touch” command. I found this rather useful in cases where files were transferred between servers, which unfortunately...

One of the neatest recent additions to Google search is the LIFE photo archive.
Basically, google images is now indexing a large photo archive owned by the famous Life magazine. Many of these images were also never published before. Talk about a jump back into some of the finest moment in history. Some of these photos date back...