Checksums and deduplicating on QNAP / Linux I have a QNAP NAS where I copy over the content of my phone every now and then as a backup. The problem is that you end up with a ton of directories called ‘Phone_2025_09_24″ and so on but with basically the same files. So how do we […]
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Subtitles using ffmpeg New in ffmpeg 8.0 has been the inclusion of Whisper (a project by Open AI) that allows you to transcribe audio (in video files) to subtitle files. But how does it work? First we should note that your flavor of Linux might not have the latest version off ffmpeg in its repository.
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Adding GeoIP alerting to your SSH logins If you ever look in your server logs, I’m sure you’ve seen the steady stream of failed SSH login attempts. Most of these come from the more lawless parts of the world like China and Russia. But what if they happen to guess your password? Or a password
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JDBC to MaxDB on the Linux commandline ODBC is Microsofts effort into creating a unified way of talking to databases. Sure, you don’t get all of the bells and whistles that that particular database offers, but it does give you the option of talking to a database and getting the basics like reading and writing
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Finding software alternatives Sometimes you find a piece of software that’s not a complete fit for your problem. But what other similar software packages are there? A good place to check is https://alternativeto.net/ Here you can enter the name of what you found so far and see if there are any alternatives for you to
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