Category: cool tested GNU Linux Apps

the hardware: a webcam that is supported out of the box with most linux distros is the Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 it has also HD resolution and stereo microphone. worth the investment if you do a lot of online […]

Debian Ubuntu Mint: for the deb based distributions hostnamectrl; # tested on Armbian (Debian for ARM Bullseye) su – root; # become root apt update; # always good apt install console-data # select a new keymap # for languages others […]

Update: as of 2019-01 and CentOS 7.6 the below setup may fail by now, for those reasons… BUT you CAN compile the latest kernel and all modules yourself (DON’T BE SHOCKED! YOU CAN DO IT! IT’S NOT ROCKET SIENCE!… just […]

hostnamectl; # tested with Static hostname: debian9 Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Kernel: Linux 4.12.0cuztom Architecture: x86-64 su – root apt update apt install genisoimage genisoimage –help genisoimage -r -J -l -ldots -o etc.iso /etc; # turn folder /etc […]

update: extundelete works well on ext3 but not on ext4. update: WHILE STILL POWERED ON IMMEDIATELY backup the ext4 journal to file on usb stick: debugfs -R “dump <8> /mount/usb-stick/sda.journal” /dev/sda (assuming sda is the drive where the deletion happened) […]

i tried to get GOK working… no chance outdated. then i thought i look into caribou… i don’t get it how that works… so i went on to: florence and it just did what i expected it to do install […]

interesting but untested app under CentOS MATE Gnome2 it was successfully tested with a Brother 9460 CDN under Debian 8. Brother is shipping it’s own brsane config tool. this should work for Ubuntu as well. https://launchpad.net/simple-scan epson via usb: if […]

it’s amazing… try this: open up a text file Hit ESC (command mode) :X now vim / vi will ask you for a password if you know save and quit and reopen the file it detects that the file was […]

if ssh server is up and secured, it is possible to do so much more with ssh like secure file-transfer of large files (SFTP via FileZilla) or even forward the graphical output of a server-application locally (only that window, not […]

firessh FireSSH is a free, cross-platform SSH terminal client for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Written entirely in Javascript! holy cow! I knew JavaScript was powerful 😀 you will have to type into firefox like this: ssh://login@IP example: ssh://user@172.20.0.25/ … […]

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Update: FOSS Alternatives Video Conferencing: https://itsfoss.com/jami/ Google Project Zero security examination of WebRTC: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/adventures-in-video-conferencing-part-1.html WebRTC is the “new web browser based video conferencing kid on the block” and it is pretty cool: in theory possible to run one’s own server […]

Dylan Beattie ?? ‏@dylanbeattie Feb 16 Learning to code is an essential skill in the modern world. Here’s a handy diagram showing you how to get started. that’s what i really liked about Adobe Flex Builder… it was based on […]

this is a little contradicting… https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html yeah okay… basically what Mr Stallman wants is that all JS-script comes with a free license…  so he is not against JS in general. But never the less JS stays a security concern. but […]

Hardware Assembly: (i think 512MByte should be enough, 1GByte probably pretty good) Software Installation: including squid-proxy and web advertisement-filtering in the next part: OpenVPN 🙂 Thanks man! Amazing tutorials! by https://internetz.me Related Links: https://www.howtoforge.com/pfsense-squid-squidguard-traffic-shaping-tutorial http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz

replicant.us: Samsung Galaxy Qualcomm Modem Backdoor in Software (FSF) “We are also having tough times with GPS: all the GPS chips found in the Android phones we support implement a secret and non-documented protocol that we just cannot figure out.” […]

AMAZING! TRY THIS IN WINDOWS! 😀 <code> stat -c %s largefilelike.iso; # count bytes (1Byte = 8Bits) in this file 4700372991 truncate –size=-1 largefilelike.iso; # cut off last byte of this file stat -c %s largefilelike.iso; # count again bytes […]

Manchmal wenn man eine Festplatte einfach von einem System (Laptop) in ein anderes System (Desktop/Workstation) plugged and played – läuft Linux meist reibungslos… aber Windows nicht, welches man evtl. für Spiele (was sonst) “braucht” 😀 Also muss man Windows reinstallieren… […]

http://tinycorelinux.net/6.x/ 15MBYTE ISO! 🙂 THIS IS AS TINY AS IT CAN GET! 😀 it is said to support more hardware than the latest version (7.x)…  

http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/zeroshell/ZeroShell-3.6.0.iso -> fire this up in a VirtualBox machine… using “Generic Linux” settings. explanation later. as seen on: http://www.pcwelt.de/ratgeber/DSL-Optimierung_-_So_tunen_Sie_Ihr_Netzwerk-Multi-WAN_und_Co.-8913906.html Firewall Router Zeroshell is a Linux distribution for servers and embedded devices aimed at providing the main network services a LAN […]

Gnome2 MATE Desktop comes with pretty cool Cosmos background slideshow. in theory it should be possible to put more pictures into it… just search for “cosmos” on yandex.ru or any other search engine. space grounds: MATE Gnome2 comes with nice space […]

there is no menu-manager installed per default. it was named “alacarte” now it is named “mozo” easy MATE menu editing tool mozo is an easy-to-use menu editor for MATE that can add and edit new entries and menus. It works […]

ps while being only two letters is a massively complex, complicated and powerful tool. per default it outputs all running processes sorted for Process ID (PID) but you can change that sorting. here are the “ps info page/man” ps.info.txt (2011) […]

The really great thing about open source there is always a hacker stripping out the bad stuff, leaving in the good stuff and releasing it to the public. thank you! there is even a mobile version of it. BE AWARE! […]

All GUI programs are based/use streamripper. no gui/bash/terminal version: hostnamectl; # tested with Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 su – root; # become root apt update; apt install streamripper; Ctrl+D; # logoff root # […]

UPDATE! Debian 9 supports Compiz super fancy 3D Accelerated Desktop!? UNTESTED! (it will probably only work with limit amounts of GPU, like 1 out of 3 laptops will support it, this was true for compiz under Knoppix 7.2) https://youtu.be/Z34aQ_xH7ac how […]

[cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] apt-get update; apt-get install –only-upgrade ; # update only this package [/cc]

please see: https://dwaves.de/2017/04/24/linux-batch-rename-multiple-files-at-once-remove-chars-in-the-middle-of-filename-how-to-mass-rename-disable-wordpress-xmlrpc-php/

usually iphones/smartphones take pictures with 2-3-4-5MByte which can fill your harddisk/webserver pretty fast. It is wiser to shrink them down before upload. While under Windows i would recommend you http://www.irfanview.com/ Under Linux you can do that with ease 😀 [cc […]

[cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] echo “deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free” >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update && apt-get install rar rar RAR 4.00 beta 3 Copyright (c) 1993-2010 Alexander Roshal 17 Dec 2010 Shareware version Type RAR -? for help Usage: rar […]