Andy Ferguson This could be run as a cron job on any Debian based system (tested on Debian, Ubuntu, Raspian). #!/bin/bash export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive yes ” | apt-get -y -o DPkg::options::=”–force-confdef” -o DPkg::options::=”–force-confold” dist-upgrade See http://slave27.local/debian-handbook/sect.automatic-upgrades.html for more details.
This assumes that the installer is already in /Applications, and that the USB drive is called HighSierra sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/HighSierra –applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app –nointeraction &&say Done This device can be used to upgrade existing installations, do clean installations, and various repair/admin tasks.
Things I use that are non/standard: FeeddlerRSS for feed reading. Serverauditor for SSH connections to my computers. It works well with Debian, Ubuntu and Raspian, and supports multiple connections. It also plays nicely when paired with a bluetooth keyboard for longer terminal sessions. RD Client (from Microsoft) for remote desktop to Windows/Linux computers. LimeChat for … Read more
This can be done by installing the package vrms (stands for virtual Richard Stallman). It will tell you if you have any non-free software installed (and tell you what it does).
To compare specific package versions between Debian and Ubuntu see http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/mdt/all.html. It’s also a good place to point people at who say that the two distributions are basically the same.
Instructions for creating a local HTML copy of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook. All work related to this project was done on a Raspberry Pi Zero running Raspian, so I suspect it will work on anything running any Debian derivative (although Ubuntu 16.04 is the only other system I’ve tested this on so far) Get hold … Read more
This assumes the source file is DRM free, and that the machine already has calibre installed. for book in *.epub; do echo “Converting $book”; ebook-convert “$book” “$(basename “$book” .epub).mobi”; done
The best graphical PDF merging tool for Linux is probably pdfmod. It’s in the Ubuntu repositories, and can do anything Preview can do as far as merging/exporting PDF files from multiple sources. For command line merging, pdftk does the job well. The syntax would be something like: pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf Which would merge … Read more
To get an interesting picture and quote each time you log in to a terminal session add the following to /etc/profile: echo;fortune | cowsay -f dragon;echo This requires fortune and cowsay to be installed first (through apt or homebrew depending on platform). The optput should look something like: _________________________________________ < Caution: Keep out of reach … Read more
Install motion: sudo apt-get install motion Enable motion to start at boot: sudo nano /etc/default/motion Find the line that says start_motion_daemon=no and change it to start_motion_daemon=yes. Enable the stream to be viewed from other computers on the local network, and also make the output a little bigger: sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf Change the following values: daemon … Read more