How To: Monitor NetCat File Upload Progress using PV
Using NetCat to upload files can sometimes be handy, however it would be awesome if you could track the upload ETA and not just stare patiently for a prompt. PV, or “Pipe Viewer”, is a handy little command that allows you to track the progress of any Unix pipe. Using it as an replacement for…
How to: Piece together Port and PID using Netstat, In Linux
Linux and networking go hand in hand, whether running on the fancy desktop or noisy server. Regardless of which packages you choose to install, chances are, that they require networking for some functionality. A desktop may have some dns-cache, filtering proxy, anonymous socks or ssh-tunnel listening in the background. The server equally busy with its…
How To: Avoid password theft, Faceraping, Email hijacks etc. On public networks
Has your email been blacklisted? Does your forum-posts suddenly contain nothing but kittens? Did your relationship status become same-sex over night? Well, physical access to your box may be the answer to most of these scenarios. But everything you send on public wire, in plain-text that is, has the potential to be sniffed out or…
Axel, the Accelerated Wget
When downloading large files in Linux, wget gets the job done but isn’t very fast. When speed is of the issue, a multi-connection tool is needed. That is where axel, a simple command-line based download accelerator, comes in. Axel is as easy to use as wget, it may not have the advanced features such as…