I have Just completed an updated Bash (command line) codecademy course. This now includes exercises on bash scripting. Very useful. It is good to undertake new courses, but just check that previosly completed courses have not been updated, or that 100 percent may, as in my case, go down to 80 percent.
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Experimenting with irc bots
The November issue of Linux voice (soon to be integrated with Linux Magazine) had a tutorial on creating a simple IRC bot. (ircbot1.py) I have been experimenting with this and have put the code on github various irc chat botshttps://github.com/zleap/irc_bots1 forks.0 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: add function to allow bot to quit on user…
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Q : What does a play work assistant do on his day off ? ; A install debian Jessie on an old computer. This is what I spent most of today doing. My Old Duron 1600 has been sitting under my desk for ages, not doing much. It had a few technical issues which…
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I have been looking at the webpage for the Tails GNU / Linux distribution. Tails routes all traffic through the Tor network in order to protect the privacy of users. As I am using Linux Mint 17.2. Following the instructions for downloading and signing the Tails OpenGPG key needs the user to install Nautilus-seahorse…
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Now that I have my Raspberry Pi traffic light project auto running from start up. To do this I had to set it so that the Raspberry Pi auto logins. The process for doing this is described here. Then edit .bash_profile so the programs I want to start are started up from there. As I…
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