Category Archives: Linux

The Aircrack-ng suite is a collection of useful tools aiding you in collecting wireless data and recovering wireless passwords. Perhaps it’s questionable to call it “password recovery”, since surely it’s easier logging into the wireless access point and read the password – but at least it has some legitimate uses. I wanted to dump all […]

If you want to control a LED from the command line, but you’re not comfortable using the GPIO (and perhaps soldering), then feel free to use the HDD Status LED on the Raspberry Pi chip. It’s a fun feature, but pretty useless. Most of Raspberry Pi’s LEDs are hardware-controlled, meaning you can’t control them from […]

You’re able to check the temperature of your Raspberry Pi easily. Simply run the command below /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp That should output the CPU temperature of the Raspberry Pi. Or at least the temperature of the sensor. Works for me on Raspbian “Wheezy” (image 2013-12-09).

I used a HDMI cable with a DVI adapter without issue, but I started having issues when I ditched the adapter. The resolution went down, and the smaller image was centered, leaving a big black border. So how did I fix it? Uncomment or add the following line to /boot/config.txt hdmi_drive=2 Value 2 means normal […]

If you install i3wm and i3status fail to detect your battery, here’s one solution: Open /etc/i3status.conf and look for “battery 0 {“. Add the following line inside the battery config: path = “/sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/uevent” The location might differ, so navigate to power_supply and find the BATX appropriate for you. I’ve seen someone use BAT%d in their […]