Cool Stuff To Try Out in Linux

You know one of those instances where you need to stroll about to clear your head or get some fresh air. Well, let's make things interesting in a Linux system to avoid the physical strolling and get on the digital strolling. 

Here are some cool stuff to do in pretty much any Linux distro. They'll come in handy to buzz of arrogant guys, baffle some dudes, earn for yourself some bragging rights. Sometimes just for show off, and also as a great epic riposte to some noobies (mostly windows dudes), or a comeback to some challenge.

Much of what is done here is bash scripting, one of the major reasons why the terminal is so powerful. We can also have perl and python scripting, two of the most common and popular hacker's programming languages.

Linux's Most Lethal Commands to Never Execute

With the elegant Linux Terminal comes great power and with such great power comes great responsibility, and caution obviously. 

A great resource on the terminal is the use of Bash. Bash is the language of the Linux terminal and it’s powerful. Not only can it run commands but it can also run functions, which makes it easy to write scripts that can automate system tasks. Unfortunately, functions don’t come without their own set of risks.

I am the kind of guy who will tell you to visit the dark net if you know what you are looking for. Likewise, in the terminal, only execute commands which you are certain you know what they do and you are certain about what you want them to do.

Restoring Sublime Text Editor by Downgrading

Kali Linux as we know does come with wonderful built-in text editors such as leafpad, vim and nano (my favorite) e.t.c. However, i have a particular obsessive compulsion to use sublime text especially in web development using languages such as HTML (i don't like considering it a language), css, php and javascript.

You can download Sublime-Text into your Kali Linux, by executing:
        apt install sublime-text

That is after running apt update first.

Fixing Operating System Boot Problems

We all at one time experience booting up issues with our computers.

Your computer may fail to boot an operating system when you perform on of the following actions:
    • Delete a Partition
    • Move a Partition
    • Install another operating system and overwrite the Master Boot Record

Luckily, we can always solve boot up failure. If your computer does not use GRUB then you are advised to consult documentation for your boot loader to learn how to fix the problem. In this article I'll deal with the case of a computer that uses a GRUB boot loader.

Kali Linux 2018.4 Release Comes With New Tools and Tool Upgrades

We now already have the fourth and final release of Kali Linux 2018, the Kali Linux 2018.4. You can download it here. This release has brought us up to kernel version 4.18.0. It has numerous bug fixes and package updates. 

On a personal level, i remember release 2018.2, or was it 2018.3, the terminal was just dark with no control for opaqueness but the new 2018.4 comes with opaqueness control of the terminal.

I love a translucent terminal.

How To Fix A System Freeze In Kali Linux

A system freeze is a common problem in most operating systems. We all experience it along the way and we sometimes do know what caused it and even how to solve it e.g. when i run so many resource draining processes or applications on my system than it can handle.

There may occur a system freeze that causes a window or an application to freeze while it was still running. Many will have observed this commonly in Microsoft Windows where an application tells you "Not Responding". In Windows you can either decide to wait for it to respond - can take forever sometimes - or you decide to open the task manager and forcibly make its processes to end by clicking on the End Task button.

Resetting Kali Linux Root Password

Kali Linux Change Root Password From The Grub Boot Loader

I have come across several cases in which people actually forget their login passwords. It can be very frustrating if that was the login password to your root account on a Linux system. But luckily there is a way of changing the login password. If you are using Virtual Machine, VMWare Virtual Box and ARM images, then 'toor' is usually the default password for Kali Linux.

It should come to your attention that the possibility of changing your root password when not logged in, comes both as a hacking opportunity,loophole of sorts, as well as a security issue.