Getting a VPN set up right on your Linux machine has a number of advantages, especially today when online privacy is a must and files are being shared remotely more extensively than ever. First off, securing your connection with a virtual private network will keep your online traffic encrypted and safe from hackers and other…
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Summer Smorgasboard published on August 11th 2016. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group post here. I am currently running a variety of distributions, primarily Linux Mint 18.Previously I was running KDE 4.3.3 on top of…
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Personal Information Manager Synchronization published on July 5th 2016. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group post here. I am currently running a variety of distributions, primarily Linux Mint 18.Previously I was running KDE 4.3.3 on…
Recently I decided to pick up a new Raspberry Pi 3 B from BuyaPi.ca. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to do with it but I figured with all of the neat little projects going on for the device I would find something. After doing some searching I stumbled upon a few candidate…
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Raspberry Pi Projects published on June 7th 2016. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group post here. I am currently running a variety of distributions, primarily Linux Mint 18.Previously I was running KDE 4.3.3 on top…
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Sound in Linux, Part 2 published on May 3rd 2016. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group post here. I am currently running a variety of distributions, primarily Linux Mint 18.Previously I was running KDE 4.3.3…
Regardless of why (and there a number of valid reasons), you might like to avoid using such a large project without so much as a specification or standard behind it. Fortunately there are still a number of options out there if you don’t want a systemdOS clone. I’ll present three options ranging from could do…
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop installation with Unity and wanted to try KDE, so I ran sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. apt failed with the following message: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service’, which is also in package account-plugin-google […] The original issue at Ask Ubuntu has several suggestions but none of them worked – any apt…
Recently I needed to extract the album art from an MP3 file and came across a really easy to use command line utility called eyeD3 to do just that (among other things). Here is how you can extract all of the album art from a file MyFile.mp3 into a directory called Output. 1) Install eyeD3…
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Docker published on April 5th 2016. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group post here. I am currently running a variety of distributions, primarily Linux Mint 18.Previously I was running KDE 4.3.3 on top of Fedora…
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Mastering Photo DVDs, KDEnlive published on March 8th 2016. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group post here. I am currently running a variety of distributions, primarily Linux Mint 18.Previously I was running KDE 4.3.3 on…
Have you ever had a window in Linux freeze on you and no matter how many times you tried to close it, it just wouldn’t go away? Then when you try and find the process in System Monitor (or the like) you can’t seem to identify it for whatever reason? Thankfully there is a really…
If you’ve ever wanted to run a bandwidth intensive command (for example downloading system updates) but limit how much of the available bandwidth it can actually use then trickle may be what you’re after. Simply install it using sudo apt-get install trickle and then you can use it with the following syntax trickle -d X -u Y command…
A little while back, I picked up an Arduino Starter Kit. It contains an Arduino Uno, a bunch of common components, and an instruction book that walks beginners through building circuits and using the Arduino to interact with hardware. One of the projects in the book is a basic synthesizer that lets you play tones…
If you want to run a command that you know is going to use quite a bit of CPU but you don’t want it to completely take over your system there is a really neat utility that can help you out. It’s called cpulimit and it does exactly what you think it would. The basic…
Syncthing is a file sharing application that lets you easily, and securely, share files between computers without having to store them on a third party server. It is most analogous to BitTorrent Sync (BTS) but whereas BTS is somewhat undocumented and closed source, Syncthing is open source and uses an open protocol that can be…
As a lover of technology, I tend to accumulate bits and pieces of interesting devices. Usually, these are purchased for use on unrelated projects, and on occasion, I have the opportunity to bring them together into a single project in a previously unanticipated way. Such is the case with my Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Both…
The next version of CoreGTK, version 3.10.2, has been tagged for release today. Highlights for this release: This is a bug fix release. Corrected issue with compiling CoreGTK on OS X. CoreGTK is an Objective-C language binding for the GTK+ widget toolkit. Like other “core” Objective-C libraries, CoreGTK is designed to be a thin wrapper….
Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority that provides free SSL certificates. It is intended to be automated, so that certificates are renewed automatically. We’re using Let’s Encrypt certificates for our set of free Calculus practice problems. Our front end is currently served by an Ubuntu server running nginx, and here’s how we have it…
Google Chromecasts are neat little devices that let you ‘cast’ (send) media from your phone or tablet to play on your TV. If however, you already have a computer hooked up to your TV you don’t need to go out and buy a new device simply to have the same functionality. Instead you can install…
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