Barry Stuart Cable

Tag: GNU/Linux

  • Record and share your terminal sessions

    Forget screen recording apps and blurry video. Enjoy a lightweight, purely text-based approach to terminal recording.

  • Command Line Magic

    Learn some cool stuff you can do from the command line – Command Line Magic. I follow the Mastodon account.

  • KeePassX – password manager

    In my opinion everyone should be using a password manager. I prefer a password manager that is cross platform and installed locally on your computer. Check out KeePassX. KeePass Cross-Platform Community Edition Official KeePassX On my phone I’ve installed KeePass2Android

  • Privacy Tools

    Good resource for tools and knowledge to protect your privacy against government surveillance. privacytools.io

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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