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scrcpy is a free and open source screen mirroring application that lets you control an Android device from your desktop computer.

Two common tasks that new programmers need to learn are how to read from and write to files stored on a computer. Some examples are when data and configuration files created in one application need to be read by another application, or when a third application needs to write info, warnings, and errors to a log file or to save its results for someone else to use. read more

When debugging code, you're often faced with figuring out when a variable changes. Without any advanced tools, you have the option of using print statements to announce the variables when you expect them to change. However, this is a very ineffective way because the variables could change in many places, and constantly printing them to a terminal is noisy, while printing them to a log file becomes unwieldy. read more

Main power of tcpdump packet sniffing tool comes from its flexible packet filtering rules and versatile protocol dissection capability. As you may know, only the sky is the limit when it comes to packet-level monitoring with tcpdump. This post provides a comprehensive tcpdump cheat sheet with detailed examples.

Diodes Delight has launched a $39 “Piunora” carrier for the Raspberry Pi CM4 with Arduino, ADC, and Qwiic expansion, and Mirko Electronics is prepping a “MirkoPC” carrier with dual HDMI and a DAC. Lately, it seems, most of the interesting embedded Linux news has been about carrier boards for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. […]

If you use Git every day, you probably make a lot of commits. If you're using Git every day in a project with other people, it's safe to assume that everyone is making lots of commits. Every day. And this means you're aware of how disorienting a Git log can become, with a seemingly eternal scroll of changes and no sign of what's been changed. So how do you find out what file changed in a specific commit? It's easier than you think.

The MX Linux 19.4 distribution is now available for download as the fourth maintenance update to the latest MX Linux 19 operating system series based on Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster.”

This article is Part 7 of the LFCA series, here in this part, you will acquaint yourself with the general system administration commands to manage software packages in the Linux system.

Net-filter as we all know it’s a firewall in Linux. Firewalld is a dynamic daemon to manage firewalls with support for network zones. In the earlier version, RHEL & CentOS 6 we have been using iptables as a daemon for packet filtering framework. In RHEL/CentOS 7/8 and Fedora iptables interface is being replaced by firewalld.

PHP is one of the most popular server scripting languages used for creating dynamic pages. Many popular CMS is written in PHP including, WordPress, Laravel, Magento, and many more. The PHP 7.4 version was officially released on November 28th, 2019 with a number of new features. It has also few incompatibilities so you should take care before upgrading from the previous version. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PHP7.4 with Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

The Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) operating system is now available for public beta testing ahead of the final release later this month on April 22nd, 2021.

I recently started writing a game where you build words using letter tiles. To create the game, I needed to know the frequency of letters across regular words in the English language, so I could present a useful set of letter tiles. Letter frequency is discussed in various places, including on Wikipedia, but I wanted to calculate the letter frequency myself.

Laravel is an open-source PHP web framework. It was first released in June 2011. With each new release, Laravel is making it easier to implement complicated features without wasting too much time.

Valve released today Proton 6.3-1 as the latest version of their compatibility tool for Steam Play to help you run Microsoft Windows games on your Linux-based operating system.

Main power of tcpdump packet sniffing tool comes from its flexible packet filtering rules and versatile protocol dissector. As you may know, only the sky is the limit when it comes to packet-level monitoring with tcpdump. This post provides a comprehensive tcpdump cheat sheet with detailed examples.

In the 21st century, we tend to take data storage for granted. We have lots of it, it's relatively affordable, and there are many different types of storage available. No matter how much cloud storage space you're given for free, there's nothing quite like having a physical hard drive for your really important (or really big, when you live on a slow network) data. However, few hard drives are sold right off the shelf, ready to use—in an ideal configuration, at least. read more

This article explains how to enable hardware acceleration in Chromium browser running on Raspberry Pi OS.

Linux Lite developer Jerry Bezencon announced today the release of Linux Lite 5.4, a modest update to this lightweight distro based on Ubuntu and using the Xfce desktop environment.

Search giant insists it's necessary, iTitan didn't have anything to say Android and iOS phones transmit telemetry back to Google and Apple, even when users have chosen not to send analytics data.…

Mosh, which stands for Mobile Shell is a command-line application which is used for connecting to the server from a client computer, over the Internet. It can be used as SSH and contains more feature than Secure Shell.