Category Archives: Quick Tip

Nokia E71 and E63 tips – shell or command line access using ssh (secure shell)

The Nokia E71 & E63 is a versatile phone for people that needs the business suite of application, e.g. email, messenger, documents & spreadsheet, camera and most importantly, the symbian platform. The symbian platform is widely used on mobile phones. Symbian’s platform also have a wide variety of applications.

For *NIX system administration, shell access to [...]

Wordpress – missing tool bar from visual editor after upgrading wordpress

WordPress 2.8 is available for upgrade from either the Dashboard (by 1 click upgrade) or manually download it from wordpress.org and install it through command line. If you are using the first option, which upgrade through the Dashboard, you might noticed that after the upgrade, the Visual Editor might stop working or the tool bar [...]

ssh – error “Host key verification failed” when trying to connect or copy a file to ssh server

The below error was display while trying to ssh or scp to a ssh server :

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@ WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED! @
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The RSA host key for domain-name.com has changed,
and the key for the according IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
is unknown. This could [...]

Nokia E71 and E63 tips and short cut keys

Nokia E71 and E63 are great phones, operating on Symbian S60 series operating systems. Its keyboard is easy to type, the LCD is sharp, the keys position are great and most importantly, the battery last long enough, approximately 5-7 days for an average user like me. The phone also comes with a lot of practical [...]

How to check user’s information and profile

Other then digging /etc/passwd, there are other ways to check a user’s profile on the server. “finger” can also do the same job.
e.g.
finger username
Arrivederci !!!

mkdir – make a whole set of directory, automatically if it does not exists

When organizing files, we often need to make a whole set of directories in order organize the files properly into directories. Most of the time, we will need to make a bunch of sub directories.

e.g.
“cd /directory” then “mkdir leve1“, then “cd /directory/level1” then “mkdir level2“, then “cd /directory/level1/level2” then “mkdir level3” and etc… In fact, [...]

How to cd back to the previous directory

In Linux & FreeBSD, often we need to cd to a directory then ls to find out the files in that directory. Then only to find out we need to go back to the previous directory and do something else, and we will need to type “cd /very/long/directory/name/and/it/is/just/so/not/cool/to/do/“.

How to print date suitable for file name assignment

In bash script, it is common to name files with date part of it.
e.g.
system-20080808.zip, mysql-20070707.tar.gz, somelog-20090101.tar.bz2 and etc …

Reason to name it in such a ways is easier to clean up the backup later, using bash script. If you have not notice, when listing of the files and sort it by name, it is automatically [...]

How to clear or reset screen font

After accidentally cat a tar or zip file or left out some pipe and echo the whole file of random string, on to the screen; it can mess up the font of the screen and result in missing of characters or blinking characters or ever the cursor is missing from the screen. No worries, just [...]

How to search in compressed file

This is the third post talking about compressed files. This time, we will look into how to search within the compressed file, without decompressing it.

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