Before sharing your images on the Internet, you should remove the GPS data from it, unless your intend is to share the location where the […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Extract images from MP4
Extracting individual images from your MP4 files is quite easy with the FFmpeg utility. You may already have it installed on your Linux or MacOS […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux, Virtualization
Increase vmdk disk in VirtualBox
The steps below are specific to increase a VMDK disk in VirtualBox 6.1.40 for a CentOS 7 guest VM and on a MacOS host. The […]
Firmware, Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Alternative to Wget and cURL
If you are working on a Linux device that does not have Wget and cURL, or a limited version of either commands, for instance Busybox, […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Generate Memory Usage on Linux
For testing some monitoring software on my Linux system I needed to use up most of the RAM using basic Linux commands. The following worked […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Generate CPU Usage on Linux
In order to test some monitoring software on a Linux system I wanted to generate CPU Spikes to test some alarms and metrics. There are […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Remove file on Full Disk
If one of your Linux volumes is 100% full you may end up having to deal with a scenario where you can’t even remove files […]
Scripting, Windows
How to tail a log file in Windows
Tailing a log file in Linux is very easy with the tail command, for instance: However, Windows does not have a tail command. Luckily it […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Open up firewalld port on Linux
It seems to be a task that I often perform when setting up new Linux VMs or servers; opening up a port so that it […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux, Virtualization
Installing VICE (Commodore Emulator) on MacOS
Before doing anything else, make sure that you have Xcode installed. Install the xa (xa65) open-source 6502 cross compiler. Download the source code. Then extract […]