These are just 5 helpful Linux tricks I’ve picked up in my career and thought would be nice to share, in case there are others that don’t know about them! Did you know that you can use cd without any arguments to go back to your home directory? You can continue reading…
Chromebooks are fun, light, and have a long battery life, which is why I use one. It’s an awesome companion for travelling, studies, and other cases that require long battery life and mobility more than they do computing power. ChromeOS lacks some of the capabilities you find on Windows OS’s continue reading…
I recently wanted to back up my LUKS-encrypted disk. However, clonezilla only offered the ability to clone with dd, rather than the faster partclone tool, which is understandable. It is, however, possible to clone the (decrypted) underlying extfs filesystem. Note: if you make a backup of your decrypted data, it continue reading…
Yesterday I made my Raspberry Pi function as a router! It took me a long time, mostly because I was using my own custom compiled kernel (don’t worry, you don’t have to do that). There’s probably already enough blogs on the subject, but I thought I’d make one, too! Prerequisites continue reading…
Need to copy files from an old home encrypted with ecryptfs? Whether you’re doing it off a livecd or a new installation, at least in Ubuntu 14.04 it’s simple. First, install ecryptfs-recover-private $ sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-recover-private Now, ensure the device you want to recover from is mounted: /dev/sdXY is continue reading…
IRC is a great medium for communities to get together, answer users’ questions and collaborate. Although it may seem primitive, its low-bandwidth consumption and wide variety of ways to access it make it an ideal way for people to connect from any location or background. There are virtually unlimited clients continue reading…
A couple days ago (as of writing this, at least!) (on the 26th of June, 2014), I went out to a school with a staff member from University and supported a session on Raspberry pi. The session was part of a club taking place during a week where the students continue reading…
Note: This is a (late) April fool’s post. It’s not to be taken seriously. Hi, So I’m a member of freenode‘s volunteer staff. I mostly deal with user support tasks and development, but I sometimes volunteer on other tasks as well. In this case, I took on the task of continue reading…
Hi, This is a bit of a more personal post (in that it talks about how I approached a project rather than being a tutorial) but I thought it’d be interesting to share anyway. Our year 2 project in University is actually really open — we can work on pretty continue reading…
Note: You may want to make sure this is legal in your country, first… I absolutely love free and open source software and use it as much as possible, sometimes even contribute to it! So, when my dad brought me a DVD today I wanted to be able to play continue reading…