Setting the GPU fan speed on Linux is very important if a user wants to participate in gaming and not have a burning smell come from their GPU. I have found a way to get this working and it is very simple. Run this command to create a basic Xorg…
Read MoreThis is a sample command, I used this to record TV with MPV from a stream. This is quite problematic, but I managed to get this working on the example stream. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ mpv https://c.mjh.nz/101002210221/ –stream-record=tv1.ts –demuxer-lavf-probe-info=yes [ffmpeg] hls demuxer: Can’t support the subtitle(uri: hdntl=exp=1607128378~acl=%2f*~data=hdntl~hmac=a731c5d7a64c0589edb0290b2e2f44e9c48f2dbb1cf2f564d3d0914ee3341922/index_7_0.m3u8) Video –vid=1 ‘bitrate…
Read MoreGetting information about an ISO image is very easy on Linux. You do not need to mount one to view the contents with ls. There is a simple utility for viewing the contents of ISO images. I created an ISO image like this. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ mkisofs -A "Solyanka…
Read MoreThis is my current Linux shell prompt. This will show the current Github branch if you are in the folder containing a Git project. But I have added something cool. git_branch() { git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e ‘/^[^*]/d’ -e ‘s/* \(.*\)/(\1)/’ } PS1=’┌──[\[\033[38;5;160m\]\u\[$(tput sgr0)\]@\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;75m\]\H\[$(tput sgr0)\]]─[\w]\n└──╼ $(git_branch)…
Read MoreThe strings utility for Linux is very useful for finding all text strings in a binary file. I am using a swapfile image as an example. It can easily be searched for various strings that can reveal various information. Below is an example, I am looking for instances of the…
Read MoreSaving music from Youtube is fun. I am going to show how to save in good quality using youtube-dl by itself. This command will do it in one go. youtube-dl -f 140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb-2ljQDYFU –embed-thumbnail –extract-audio –audio-format mp3youtube-dl -f 140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb-2ljQDYFU –embed-thumbnail –extract-audio –audio-format mp3 This is the command in action….
Read MoreCommon Open Research Emulator is a very good networking emulator for Linux machines. This allows a user to create a network layout with IP addresses and see it working. This is very interesting software. Download the source code from Github. ┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Documents/core] └──╼ $git clone https://github.com/coreemu/core.git┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Documents/core] └──╼ $git clone https://github.com/coreemu/core.git Then…
Read MoreThe Linux command line is very useful and it can even generate you a nice wallpaper image using just the shell and ImageMagick. The example below will generate a 3440×1440 pixels wallpaper image using just the random data from /dev/urandom. ┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Documents] └──╼ $mx=320;my=256;head -c "$((3*mx*my))" /dev/urandom | convert -depth 8…
Read MoreI had a folder full of music files from a Stalker mod. But I needed to merge them together into stereo files as they were separate left and right files. Ending in _l.ogg and _r.ogg. But I managed to get this working wth help from Stackoverflow. for f in *_l.ogg;…
Read MoreUsing Midnight Commander to move files from one machine to another is very easy. The SFTP link option allows a secure FTP link to copy files over a secure SSH connection. Use the SFTP link option as shown in the screenshot above and enter your machine name, for example, [email protected]:/home/jason,…
Read MoreThe updates for youtube-dl do not work anymore on Ubuntu, but it can be updated manually. Download the script here: https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl. Then copy the script over the top of the existing one in /usr/bin and then make sure it has the executable flags 755. This is very easy. Download it…
Read MoreXplanet is a very good little program that allows a user to view the Earth from space and see what it looks like at a certain time. You can set the latitude and longitude as well as the timewarp. It is also possible to create maps with this application. This…
Read MoreTo read a file from the Internet using wget and print it in the terminal, use this command. ┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Documents] └──╼ $wget -qO – https://i.mjh.nz/au/Brisbane/raw-tv.m3u8┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Documents] └──╼ $wget -qO – https://i.mjh.nz/au/Brisbane/raw-tv.m3u8 View an image from the Internet with wget and the ImageMagik display utility. ┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Documents] └──╼ $wget -qO – https://i.4cdn.org/g/1603231784644.png | display┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Documents]…
Read MoreCreating a tiled image on Linux with the command line is very easy to do. This command will take the pyramid.bmp file and tile it as a 3440×1440 widescreen image. ┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Pictures/Windows/bitmaps] └──╼ $convert -size 3440×1440 tile:pyramid.bmp Tiles.jpg┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Pictures/Windows/bitmaps] └──╼ $convert -size 3440×1440 tile:pyramid.bmp Tiles.jpg This example will create a massive 7680×2160…
Read MoreSaving a Youtube video as audio and not video is very easy. This command below will save Youtube audio as an MP3 file. You need youtube-dl as well. Then select a Youtube video and use this one-liner to download it as an MP3 audio file. jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~/Videos$ youtube-dl -f 140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neEXAoYfcRo…
Read MoreThere is a nice alternative to Windirstat for Linux available. The Graphical Disk Map utility for Linux allows a user to open a folder in the program and then see which files are taking up the most space. This is a great way to clean up your hard drive and…
Read MoreThe Ubuntu Linux distribution is very good for working with multimedia files. I insert a flash drive with an AVCHD file on it and it is automatically opened as a folder. This makes it very easy to extract the video files inside. This is even more convenient than on Mac…
Read MoreDownloading a thumbnail of a Youtube video on Linux is very easy. This can be done using the youtube-dl script. Use this youtube-dl command to list all thumbnails for this video. ┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Pictures] └──╼ $youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ttKUEI3rtM –list-thumbnails [youtube] 0ttKUEI3rtM: Downloading webpage [info] Thumbnails for 0ttKUEI3rtM: ID width height URL 0 168…
Read MoreThis program allows the user to search an array and then return any matches. Give the program two letters and it will search the array and try to find the matches. compare.cpp1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19…
Read MoreThe ClamAV virus scanner is very useful for scanning files for malicious code. This is good if you download files from the Internet that are going to be used on a Windows computer. This is very easy to install. ┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Downloads/Dark Path/S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Dark Path] └──╼ $sudo apt install clamav┌─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Downloads/Dark Path/S.T.A.L.K.E.R….
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