How to install network speed indicator on Ubuntu

Everybody use internet these days, whether it's wireless or wired, wouldn't be nice to have network speed indicator on your desktop? so you can see what's your current internet speed. In this short tutorial i will show you how to install network speed indicator on ubuntu.

How to monitor LAN traffic on Ubuntu

Monitoring network traffic on your own local area network (LAN) can be a difficult and frustrating task, luckily on ubuntu we have a special tool for monitoring network on LAN, called iptraf. In this article i will talk about iptraf, how to install and how to use this tool.

Show process list using htop on Ubuntu

Ubuntu comes with a tool named 'top' for showing process list on your computer, but sometimes 'top' is little bit too simple and uncustomizable, there is a better version of 'top' called 'htop' on ubuntu, this article i will talk little bit about 'htop'.

How to show Hardware temperature on Ubuntu

To show hardware temperature on ubuntu you can use program called 'psensor', this cool program allows you to see CPU cores temperature, CPU usage, GPU temperature, etc,  in a nice graphical interface.

How to show Hardware info on Ubuntu

There is a time when i want to know what kind of processors (CPU) i have, what is the speed, how much memory i have and so on. Unfortunately the built in software on ubuntu can't provide these kind of information.

How to playback video in ASCII art on Ubuntu

Playback videos on graphical mode is what people always do in their everyday life, however playback videos on command line in ASCII art mode is something most people don't do, in this article i will show you how to playback video on command line and in ASCII art mode.

How to disable and enable ethernet on Ubuntu

If you are using ethernet cable for your network connection and you want to disable it without unplug the cable, you can do it from the command line.

How to create command alias on Ubuntu

There is another cool trick that you can do on the command line of ubuntu, you can make an alias for calling other command, it's little bit hard to explain but i think it's easier to understand when you try out your self.

Create simple web server with Python on Ubuntu

There is a cool thing we can do with python command on ubuntu, we can create a simple HTTP server with python command, and you don't even have to wrote any code, simply execute the command.

How to use sudo without entering password

If you want, you can run anything that must run with 'sudo' command but without entering the password. This can be done by modifying the sudoers file on ubuntu.

Scan open port using netcat on Ubuntu

By default ubuntu comes with pre-installed tool called netcat (nc), using netcat we can scan for open port on other computer that connected to the same network.