How to connect to WiFi using command line Ubuntu, Debian etc.

Tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 15.10 Beta 2, rebooted  and my system was broken. Could not connect to LAN, so my only option was to connect to W...

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How To Extract Page(s) From A Single PDF File Using Command Line

PDFtk allows users to perform common pdf tasks from the command line such as merging or splitting PDF files and pages. To insta...

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How To Install sqlmap on Debian (or Ubuntu)

sqlmap is an open-source pentesting tool that automates the exploitation of SQL injection flaws. The tool makes it pretty easy for anyo...

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Building Wireshark from Source - Linux (Debian 7.6)

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 7.6 (wheezy) Latest releases can be found here: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html wget https://1.eu...

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Banana Pi - Raspberry Pi Upgraded

Given that I finally received my Banana Pi, it is time for a little review of the Chinese Raspberry Pi "competitor". Before I te...

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How To Install i2p On Debian Wheezy

Steps should be performed with root access: i.e. sudo su Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/i2p.list nano /etc/ap...

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How To Install Mate On Debian Wheezy

Mate is forked from the unmaintained code base of GNOME 2 and has become quite popular. To install it on your debian wheezy, the following...

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How To Disable Window Animation In Gnome Classic

This is a rather annoying "feature". Simply disable it by typing the following in a terminal. gsettings set org.gnome.deskt...

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[FIX] Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5289

Couldn't get my SD card reader to work. This is what I had to do. wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971876/+attachment/2991730/+fi...

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Automatically Check The Raspberry Pi's Temperature (+Prevent Overheating)

No need to install anything. Just open a terminal and execute the following command to get the temperature of your RasPi. /opt/vc/bin/vcge...

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Streaming Video From Your Raspberry Pi Camera Module with VLC

If you want to build a surveillance cam you might want to have a look at motion, but for simple video streaming I 'd go for vlc. Enab...

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How to Setup Wi-Fi On Your Raspberry Pi via the Command Line

Configure Your AP Details sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf Make sure the file reads like this ctrl_interface=DIR=/va...

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How To Find A Website's IP via command line

The command we will be using is nslookup . For example: nslookup www.cryptsy.com This will return Non-authoritative answer: www.cry...

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How To Create A Bootable USB In Debian

Yes, Unetbootin is a great tool, but for some reason I can't get it to work in Debian. Fortunately you can achieve the same by using the...

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Automatically Reconnect WIFI (Debian, Ubuntu etc.)

The Problem For several reason I do not have access to LAN and thus have to rely on WIFI for my mining rigs. It is fine for most of the ti...

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Adding a Watermark To a Video Via Shell

Recently I wanted to add a watermark to one of my videos. Obviously there are two possible ways of achieving this in Linux.   Sample Wat...

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Public Key Authentication SSH (Debian, Ubuntu)

Generate RSA keys on Client mkdir ~/.ssh  chmod 700 ~/.ssh  ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 Transfer Client Key to Host ssh-copy-id usern...

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How To Monitor Failed SSH Attempts

Disable Password Authentication for better Security More about SSH can be found here. You might be astonished how many people try to b...

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WPScan Tutorial (Debian, Ubuntu etc..)

WPScan is a tool to automatically scan Wordpress-Blogs for vulnerabilities. Furthermore it can enumerate user names and carry out brutef...

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Locking The Screen In Openbox

I guess most of you (including me) would like to lock their screens.  You  accomplish this  in Openbox by installing and using XscreenSaver...

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