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Link: How to make a DIY home alarm system with a raspberry pi and a webcam

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How to make a DIY home alarm system with a raspberry pi and a webcam

Convert a simple webcam to a fancy digital peephole viewer with motion detection features

Traditional wireless CCTV cameras are cheap but anyone with a wireless receiver can view your signal. On the other hand, IP cameras are secure but they can be quite expensive and usually the video quality is poor — unless you go for a really expensive model.

Lately I wanted to install a home surveillance system so I chose to use a cheap Logitech webcam with Raspberry Pi and motion, an excellent linux program that monitors video signal for changes and triggers events.

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How to make a DIY home alarm system with a raspberry pi and a webcam (medium.com)

Link: A Guide to Kill, Pkill and Killall Commands to Terminate a Process in Linux

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This is nothing more or less than a selection of Kill, Pkill and Killall command examples, that show you how to terminate a process without the need of reboot.

A Guide to Kill, Pkill and Killall Commands to Terminate a Process in Linux (Tecmint)

Link: Repair Scanned Documents With gscan2pdf

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I had the pleasure last week of tracking down an article locked behind a digital paywall. It arrived through inter-library loan in the form of a book, all issues of the journal that year bound together. I felt a little disappointed as it meant I’d be left with lower quality scans. (You know what I’m talking about if you’ve ever placed a book on a copy machine.) I turned to the internet for a solution and discovered the tool gscan2pdf.

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Repair Scanned Documents With gscan2pdf (AMS Math Grad Student Blog)

Link: How to convert Apache rewrites for nginx

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Apache is still by far the most widely deployed HTTP server, according to the latest Netcraft web server survey, but nginx has been slowly, steadily gaining market share, thanks to its blazing speed. If you want to try a faster web server and move from Apache to nginx, you’ll probably have to change some of your websites’ configurations, starting with rewrite directives. To migrate rewrite rules from Apache to nginx, start with these tips and tricks.

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How to convert Apache rewrites for nginx (Linuxaria)

Link: How to clean up disk space on Linux

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BleachBit is an open-source disk space cleaner software, available on Linux and Windows platforms. Besides cleaning up disk space, BleachBit can also shred files securely, and wipe out unallocated disk space for your privacy.

In this tutorial, I will describe how to clean up disk space on Linux by using BleachBit.

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How to clean up disk space on Linux (Xmodulo)

Link: 5 Free Manuals On Ubuntu Distributions

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Ubuntu is one community that will always lend you help for your problems and is extremely helpful but it is even better with Ubuntu documentation – you will find a user guide for each release. So here we will list other interesting books available for download.

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5 Free Manuals On Ubuntu Distributions (EFYTimes.com)

Article series: CommandLineFu, BASH, AWK, Perl, SED One-Liners Explained

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We must confess that we are not as fond of the Linux command line as some Linux users — we’ll take a good GUI, and a mouse over a keyboard any time we can. But for those that love working at the Linux command prompt (and that probably don’t make nearly as many typos as we do), we thought you might appreciate this series from the catonmat blog:

Or perhaps you’d prefer this series:

Or maybe you’d like to see one-liners covering Awk, Sed, or Perl:

 

 

Author Peteris Krumins used these articles as the starting points for his e-books. In addition to the e-books listed there, it appears that he has authored this paperback edition that can be purchased from Amazon (this is an affiliate link, so if you buy it from here we’ll get a small commission):

Perl One-Liners: 130 Programs That Get Things Done

Link: Port knocking: Enhance Security Using knockd and/or Iptables From Basics

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Before moving into the article, let me tell you how this article has been written. This article starts with the introduction to knockd, and proceeds with the implementation of port knocking by using iptables. Note that the same port knocking can be achieved using knockd, as well, which will be discussed in the upcoming article.

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Port knocking: Enhance Security Using knockd and/or Iptables From Basics (Unixmen)

Link: How to Flash an SD Card for Raspberry Pi

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The Raspberry Pi is an incredible little computer made up of a components and connectors on an unfeasibly small printed circuit board that is approximately the dimensions of a credit card. Depending upon your intended use, your Rasberry Pi may have a keyboard, monitor and mouse added. Regardless of your intended use, you are going to need an SD (Secure Digital) card on which to install an operating system.

This tutorial describes how to install an operating system onto an SD card for use in your Raspberry Pi.

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How to Flash an SD Card for Raspberry Pi (Mactuts+)

Link: How to Clone Your Raspberry Pi SD Card for Super Easy Reinstallations

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If you’ve ever turned a Raspberry Pi into a media center or retro gaming station, you know how frustrating it can be when it crashes and corrupts your SD card. Here’s a little trick to making that a little less painful.

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How to Clone Your Raspberry Pi SD Card for Super Easy Reinstallations (Lifehacker)

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