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Security camera system with Ubuntu Linux and Motion

I needed to have somekind of video surveillance system to look after stuff that I have on my office.
I didn’t find any good but cheap enough product on the Internet but then I noticed that I have my desktop computer
running Ubuntu Linux and I have Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 Webcam on my desk so could [...]

January 10th, 2011 | Tags: camera, linux, logitech, motion, Security, ubuntu, webcam | Category: info, security, software | Leave a comment

Living in a cloud

I’m one of those people who used to carry more than one usb memory dongle with me that were full of programs and data.
Then I started to think things a little bit differently. Cloud based services are here today, and they are
easy to use that anyone can use them. It was a different thing [...]

December 27th, 2010 | Tags: android, desire, dropbox, firefox, gmail, google, htc, ios, iphone, ipod, keepass, linux, mac, macbook, rss, Security, sync, ubuntu one, windows | Category: info, software | Leave a comment

South Africa 2010 Photos

Just a quick note:
If you are looking my South Africa 2010 photos click here.

November 22nd, 2010 | Category: info | Leave a comment

Proxy and apt-get on Linux

I was trying to get updates to my Linux installation with apt-get but it didn’t work right away
because I was behind a proxy/firewall so I had to tell apt-get to use proxy but how? There is no parameter on apt-get
where you can tell it to use proxy server? So we just have to use environment [...]

November 3rd, 2010 | Tags: apt-get, http, https, linux, proxy | Category: info | 2 comments
 
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