In an earlier tutorial, I showed you how to obfuscate Tor bridges with obfs4proxy which required editing the Tor service files. The official Torproject documentation stated, that you needed to edit the systemd service files and change a variable in each, to allow the usage of privileged ports. So, I [...]
If you are using a system that's not based on Debian/Ubuntu and want to play Minecraft Java these days, you don't install a Minecraft.jar file anymore. Instead, you use the new "Minecraft Launcher" that is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. While this launcher is nicely packaged into a .deb [...]
Some games have "cloud sync" which means it will upload your save to the cloud and download and sync that save to all your computers so that you can continue to play where you left off, on any machine. Some games don't offer this or only partially. Terraria is a [...]
Today I will show you where to get TV channel icons and how to configure them in Tvheadend. Getting the icons First step is to download icons from here (download SRP full and SNP full) and save them on your Linux box under /home/hts/icons which can be done as follows [...]
If you ever used a Mac and had to install an application, you probably noticed that often there's no installer unlike on Windows. You just drag and drop the application to your /Applications folder. The downside is, there's often also no uninstaller for those applications. Now, you might say "just [...]
This is a quick guide on how to install the official printer drivers by Epson on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint) and other distros (Fedora/OpenSUSE). If you're like me, you like things to "just work", and fully too. While many modern printers including printers by Epson provide modern printing protocols which require no [...]
As it turns out, you can assign a pseudo tty when using docker run and still put it into the background and I'll show you how and why you might want to do so! You probably know the following docker run parameters: -t : Allocate a pseudo-tty-i : Keep STDIN [...]
If you're on a first generation Raspberry Pi you don't have much RAM, so it makes sense to increase the swapfile size to be able to do more with your Pi. I'll show you how! First, edit the file /etc/dphys-swapfile sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile Change the line: CONF_SWAPSIZE=100 To something like: [...]
In the previous post I told you about the different modes a Huawei USB "internet stick" may have and what for. And since we want to make an SMS-Email gateway, we'll want to put our USB stick into modem mode so that it will act as USB serial device that [...]
I just wanted to share an interesting detail about those Huawei USB "internet sticks" you can buy to surf with your laptop on the go. They're quite versatile! You probably know the old school USB modems, that you plug in and your OS will ask for the SIM pin (if [...]