The advent of internet enabled ever-connected smart devices in our everyday lives has led to a large-scale proliferation of the Internet of Things into every aspect of our modern lives. It has now become more important than ever to understand the security and privacy risks associated with connected devices. With…
My requirements for organizing a huge number of PDF e-books:- - An automated way of renaming all of these e-books to their actual titles. - Removing all duplicate files. My solution:- - git clone https://github.com/sayak-sarkar/pdf-title-rename - export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:$(pwd)/xmp.py - python pdf-title-rename/pdf-title-rename.py /* - ./remove_duplicate.sh
This is an interesting bit that I learnt about from an email in a mailing list by James Pryor. To generate html output for code within a shell script you can use: vim myscript.sh '+syntax on' '+ set nu' '+set background=light' +TOhtml '+w myscript.html' '+qall!' If you don’t want numbers…
To install Editor Config on Sublime Text all you need to do is to follow the following steps:- Go the Preferences tab -> Package Control. Select Install Package from the drop down menu. Wait for the list to load, once it loads it will show you a list of packages.…
Here’s another three step guide to installing Sublime Text 3 on RHEL 6,7 / Fedora 18, 19, 20:- Download the installation script from the following gist. https://gist.github.com/sayak-sarkar/11b039f398ddcae88139 Extract it to your home directory [or anywhere you like]. $tar -xvf gist11b039f398ddcae88139-e339084ef22e956ea6ef8d04f8279ca70772f534.tar.gz Open your terminal (preferably as super user), navigate to your…
Are you a Fedora user who wants to check out the new Australis Theme for Firefox scheduled for release with Firefox 28? However, you are a bit apprehensive of letting go that stable release of Firefox in bundled within your Fedora installation by default, just in case something goes wrong…
Here’s another three step guide to installing Sublime Text 2 on Fedora 19 – Schrodinger’s Cat:- Download the installation script from the following gist. https://gist.github.com/sayak-sarkar/5810101 Extract it to your home directory [or anywhere you like]. $tar -xvf gist5810101-3b0e9bb3ef5128760df9e3e06877fa4f7e5689ec.tar.gz Open your terminal (preferably as super user), navigate to your home directory…
Here’s a simple three step guide to installing VLC media player on Fedora 19 [Schrodinger’s Cat]:- Login as Super User: $su Setup rpmfusion: #rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm Install vlc using the default yum package manager: #yum install vlc mozilla-vlc Voila! You now have VLC media player installed on you computer! 🙂
Here’s the link to a really interesting article by Russel Bryant that I found on the web. Especially helpful for all my geeky gamer friends who keep on complaining about how they are not able to play Counter Strike or Team Fortress 2 on their Linux based systems. Enjoy! If…