Timezone in linux command line

Timezone: PHP, Shell and Crontab

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/05/crontab-server-timezone-php-date.html to set the Timezone in the code written.date_default_timezone_set(Timezone)is the PHP function to set the Timezone in PHP. This can take care of most of the timezone anomalies that can occur in your script when using PHP's Date Function.Timezone is a string, for example for Indian Standard Time it is "Asia/Calcutta", for LA it is "America/Los_Angeles" etc. Checkout PHP Timezone list for a complete list of timezones.ShellIn a shell the date command gives you the localtime ...

Linux style command line for Windows, Drag to Select, Right click to paste

http://digitalpbk.com/windows/linux-style-command-line-quick-edit-right-click-paste Linux style command line for Windows, Drag to Select, Right click to paste Ever wondered if you could want more out of the windows command line ? Usually on windows command line in order to select a piece of text, you have to right click the command line title and select mark and then mark the piece of text selected and press enter. And to paste we have to right click on the title and in the Edit menu select paste, which is a painful way of doing it. On linux on the other hand, command line ...

IMTools - Linux command line tool convert images from one format to another

http://digitalpbk.com/projects/imtools-linux-command-line-tool-convert-images-one-format-another-jpeg-bmp-png IMTools - Linux command line tool convert images from one format to another This is a tool, I wrote for my Main Project a while back so I thought of putting it up here. The suite imtool was written to convert JPEG file to a RAW format for use with FPGA. The imtool utility can do much more than just JPEG to RAW, it can handle the following file format changes. JPEG to RAW, BMPBMP to RAW,JPEGPNG to RAW,BMP,JPG It can also render an image preview to a window using OpenGL. OS: Linux Linux ...

Installing Google Go on Linux Ubuntu

http://digitalpbk.com/google-go/installing-google-go-linux-ubuntu ://go.googlecode.com/hg/ $GOROOT cd $GOROOT/src ./all.bash Installing Google Go in Steps The following packages are required for installing Google Go : bison, make, gcc, libc6-dev, ed, mercurial. To install run the command sudo apt-get install bison make gcc libc6-dev ed mercurial Edit the .bashrc file to set up the environment variables, .bashrc file resides in your home folder (/home/username/). Add the following lines if you are using ubuntu x86 (or unsure) export GOROOT=$HOME/go export GOARCH=386 export GOOS=linux ...

Reset the root password on a linux box

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/03/reset-root-password-linux-fedora-debian.html .Edit Choose the OS you want to boot into and press "e" to edit.Edit Find the line that corresponds to kernel, and again press "e". Add the following line to the end of the line. single init=/bin/bashThen press enter, and then "b" to boot the OS. After booting you will get a root shell.Mounting the filesystem in readwrite mode: Type in the following command to remount the filesystem in read write mode.mount -o remount,rw / Not doing this step might give the following error ...

Cygwin: Clear screen command, How to clear the screen ?

http://digitalpbk.com/cygwin/how-clear-screen-cls-command-not-found Cygwin: Clear screen command, How to clear the screen ? Some one may be wondering where is the clear command on cygwin. If we type either cls or clear we would be shown bash: clear: command not found. So there are many fancy ways to clear the command line prompt, but the one I liked the best is Ctrl + L Simple, just press Control + L on the keyboard and your command line prompt cleans up. :) Cygwin Software ...

Remove old kernels in Ubuntu

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2008/11/ubuntu-remove-old-kernel-grub-list-long.html and a second one just prior to the new one, just in case your system doesn't do well with the new kernel.UpdatePlease be sure to type the command exactly as such, dont miss any of the hyphens (-) and dots (.)Missing something would end up uninstalling all of your kernels and hence making the system not bootable. Correct commands :sudo apt-get remove --purge 2.6.27-7-*sudo apt-get remove --purge 2.6.27-9-*etcCommand Line Output:arun@server4:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge 2.6.27-9-*Reading package lists ...

ANSI Escape Sequences

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/05/ansi-escape-sequences.html 3 for 80 x 25 color 4 for 320 x 200 color graphics 5 for 320 x 200 b & w graphics 6 for 640 x 200 b & w graphics 7 to wrap at end of line ESC[=#;7l or ESC[=l or Resets mode # set with above command ESC[=0l or ESC[?7lKeyboard Reassignments: ESC[#;#;...p Keyboard reassignment. The first ASCII ...

Auto mounting File Systems in Linux

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/03/auto-mounting-file-systems-in-linux.html Auto mounting File Systems in Linux Some Linux Distros (like Fedora Core 6 FC6) do not automatically mount the local file systems such as FAT/FAT32 systems that belong to the windows drive. To mount and unmount file systems you must be logged on as a root user or must have root privilegesMounting ManuallyFirst change to root@localhost ~]$ suPassword: Passwordroot@localhost ]# mount -t Filesystem Device DirectoryMounting the file system manually is done by the mount command.Filesystem is vfat ...

Opening/Closing of CD Drive from VB

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/11/openingclosing-of-cd-drive-from-vb.html open", strReturn, 127, 0)End SubPublic Sub CloseCDDrive() 'Call me to close the CD Drive Call mciSendString("set CDAudio door closed", strReturn, 127, 0)End SubmciSendString is an alias of function mciSendStringA in winmm.dllI guess the code speaks for itself. (Tested on XP, VB6).Related: In Linux, from the command line:To open the drive:eject DriveNameHereTo close the drive:eject -t DriveNameHereIf your not sure what the drive name is, just look in /etc/fstab:cat /etc/fstabIn my ...