Why would you want to run a file server off a Raspberry Pi? Maybe you want a small server that is always on and low voltage. If you need something that you can send and recieve files to and from than this might be your solution. The Raspberry Pi is low voltage running at just 5.0V ±5%. This means that your server will end up costing you around $5 a year.
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Raspberry Pi NAS (CMDann.ca)
When using ssh -D to setup a socks proxy, DNS queries and DNS traffic are not sent through the ssh tunnel. However, with Firefox a config change can be made to send DNS traffic through the ssh tunnel. Here’s how it works!
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Tunnel DNS through ssh -D socks proxy (scottlinux.com)
Voice control of our home electronics was promised long ago, but it’s still one of those things that most of us don’t have. If you want to add little voice control to your home on the cheap, blogger Chipos81 shows off how to do it with a Raspberry Pi.
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Add Voice Control to Your Home with LightwaveRF and a Raspberry Pi (Lifehacker)
Take control of your Raspberry Pi from your smartphone, tablet or PC, from anywhere in the world
People are starting to do all kinds of things with their Raspberry Pi, like having it open and close a garage door, automate lighting and heating in the home, and so on. Even if you don’t yet have a project like this, this tutorial will still serve as a useful introduction to writing web applications with Python.
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Remotely control your Raspberry Pi (Linux User & Developer)
In Ubuntu (and any other Ubuntu-based distro), when you use a “sudo” command, the system will prompt you for your password. After the first “sudo” command, the system will remember your password for the next 15 minutes so you don’t have to enter any more password for subsequent “sudo” command. If, however, you feel that the 15 minutes is a bit too long/short, here is how you can change it.
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Change the sudo Password Timeout in Ubuntu (Make Tech Easier)
There’s something exciting about crossing the boundary between the abstract world of software and the physical ‘real world’, and a relay driven from a GPIO pin seemed like a good example of this. Although a simple project, I still learned some new things about the Raspberry Pi while doing it.
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Link: Raspberry Pi – Driving a Relay using GPIO (SusaNET)
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Tutorial: How to use your Raspberry Pi like an Arduino (Limina.Log)
Whether you’re new to the Linux command-line or you’re a seasoned veteran, these tricks will help turn your text-based meanderings into full-blown marathons. Save time, speed up your productivity, and enhance your Linux-Fu, all at once!
How To Use Bash History to Improve Your Command-Line Productivity (How-To Geek)
Google’s latest hardware offering, Chromecast was an instant hit as it promised a better way of beaming/ controlling multimedia content from your mobile phone on to a TV than the current choices we have right now. Now when a popular company like Google is trying to solve an age old problem that haunted Android, with a less expensive ($35) hardware, we should expect it to run out of stock. That is what exactly happened to Chromecast as it ran out of stock on all popular online stores including Google’s own Play store. Now if you have already pre-ordered a Chromecast or is in queue, here is something for you impatient folks, ready to play with few command lines.
Github user (dz0ny) has developed a Python package called Leapcast that can emulate the Chromecast hardware in Chromium environment running on your Mac, Windows and Linux. In order to achieve this hack on your computer all you have to do is carefully follow the steps below.
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How to Emulate Google Chromecast on Windows, Mac and Linux Desktop (Compixels)
Use Any IR Remote In The House
This tutorial will show you how to use ANY IR remote in your house to control XBMC.
I have used this method with COMPLETE success on many remotes. I have yet to find one that wont work.To demonstrate this technique I will download and install the latest XBMCbuntu Live CD (Frodo 12.2) to verify it works “out of the box”
If you deviate from the Live CD XBMCbuntu install you are on your own installing and configuring LIRC.
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Linux How-To: Use ANY IR Remote In The House to Control XBMC
autossh is a program to start a copy of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic.
Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels Using Autossh (Ubuntu Geek)
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