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From VHS to H.264 video format
This is the setup I use to convert VHS tapes to H.264 video files. I’m using a Panasonic DMR-EZ48V DVD Recorder + VHS VCR to play back my VHS tapes. For this exercise I obviously don’t need the DVD drive but this was the only device available to me and it works pretty well.
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Create Kali Linux live USB
This isn’t particularly hard but just thought I’d share it because my usual method of creating a GNU/Linux live USB using the program UNetbootin didn’t work with Kali Linux. I used the GNU/Linux command dd. My iso file was named kali-linux-1.0.8-i386.iso and it was in my home folder i.e. ~/ and my USB device name […]
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My home server
Rather than throw out an old computer I’ve decided to put it to some good use. I’ve turned it into a server. I’m primarily using it to play around with ownCloud (http://owncloud.org). The specs of the computer are as follows: Compaq Presario SR1915AN AMD Sempron Processor 3400+ 1.8GHZ 80GB 7200 RPM Hard Disk 1GB RAM […]
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LibreOffice
Use a free (free as in freedom) office suite i.e. word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database etc. Create documents using an open standard, the OpenDocument Format (ODF). Works on multiple operating systems, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, MS Windows. My entire family is using LibreOffice – no MS Office in this house. LibreOffice website Compare LibreOffice […]
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Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users. Website: https://www.fsf.org/ Favourite links Free GNU/Linux distributions PRISM collection We Can Put an End to Word Attachments
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Tor Challenge
Join the Tor Challenge I’m using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run my Tor relay. I’m using an Amazon EC2 instance. The instance type is a t1.micro and the OS is Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty), amd64 version. These are the instructions I followed. SSH into your AWS EC2 instance. Figure out the name of your distribution. […]
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Screenshot of my desktop
This is a screenshot from one of my home computers. Can you guess which GNU/Linux distro I’m using. After speaking with my friend Michael I have decided to publish another screenshot showing off the “Drives Desklet”.
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Tails – live operating system
Latest version 1.4 (2015-05-12) Tails version 1.0 has been released. Make sure you check it out – https://tails.boum.org/ Tails subreddit