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Fix corrupted console font on Kali Linux 2021.1

Fix corrupted console font on Kali Linux 2021.1 I have installed Kali Linux on a VM with 512 MB memory and 2 vCPU using network installer . The installation was uneventful but my first login shows the following: It is not pretty, so to fix it do: $: sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup Then select: UTF-8 Guess optimal character set Terminus 8x16 Select different font type as appropriate. It should now look much better Keywords: Kali, Linux, Console, garbled, corrupted, text

Piping pslist or tslist to findstr

If you are are a console junkie and you frequently play around or look around what is running in your system you may find that using TaskManager can be time consuming and limiting. So I looked around and found a way to use pslist (from Windows Sysinternals) or tslist ( a built in command line ). The command below means to show information about a process running on "remote_machine" with process name of python.exe D:\><path_to_pslist>pslist.exe \\remote_machine | findstr python.exe This one is using the built in tslist command. Same as before, we want to query for a process named python.exe on "remote_machine." D:\> tslist /S remote_machine | findstr python ~ts