Sometime all methods to adjust screen brightness failed to change the screen brightness properly, and the too bright screen may be very irritating. But don’t worry, even though your distro has failed to adjust your screen brightness, but you can do some hacking method to adjust the screen brightness yourself. Before we continue, it will be very good to understand some concepts about the relationship between linux and distro such as Ubuntu, Fedora. From now on, I will refer Distro like Ubuntu, Kubuntu or Fedora as Distro only.
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Howto Adjust Screen Brightness in Ubuntu Forcefully (when all methods fail)
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
How to configure kismet for Atheros Wireless Card.
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Kismet is Network Monitoring tools that can let you spy on any network within your wireless range. Sometime installing kismet is a pain. But once you have installed kismet on your computer, kismet will be your great side kick on war driving. You can reveal the hidden Wireless Network, Monitor all people inside the network including their MAC address and IP address. Nowadays, the usage of Kismet in war driving has become necessity.
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How to Take Screenshot from Remote Computer in Linux?
Friday, January 8th, 2010Once you have access to someone’s computer using ssh like what explained in this page Connect to remote computer, curiosity start coming to your head and you want to do something naughty to your friend. I just say, it’s okay as long as you don’t put your friend in to real trouble, I’ve ever done it too 
. We cannot use screen shot utilities to take screen shot from remote computer just like scrot, but linux has a tool that is able to take screen shot from remote computer; that is xwd.
How to Use XWD to Take Screenshot From Remote Computer
You can use xwd to take Screenshot from Remote Computer.
xwd -root -out result.xwd -display :0.0
Yet xwd file is too difficult to be seen, so better we change it to png file and open it with Eye of Gnome
convert result.xwd result.png
Tadaaaa.. Everything is done, you can spy your friend monitor with just these two lines of code.