TealScientific

Part of keeping systems safe and secure involves keeping them properly patched. This can be quite a chore when you need to manage many systems. One way of easing this burden is to let each system automatically apply some or all updates and patches.

This is easy to set up on Ubuntu systems.

Note: All . . . → Read More: Configuring automatic upgrades on Ubuntu

So, you need to create a short clip from a longer video. Sure, you could launch your favorite GUI video editor, like OpenShot or Kdenlive, and manipulate your video. But, why not use the command-line for such a simple edit?

This is where the Libav or FFmpeg project comes in handy. Both projects provide tools . . . → Read More: Clipping videos from the command-line

This article is not intended as a full treatment of this topic. There are far too many options and considerations to do it justice in one article.

First, we need some definitions …

Watermarks:

Originally, a watermark was a faint impression on paper. This idea is carried over to digital videos as a . . . → Read More: Watermarking a video from the command-line

SSH or Secure Shell is a cryptographic, network protocol for secure communications originally developed by Tatu Ylönen, a researcher at Helsinki University of Technology in 1995. He was motivated by a password-sniffing attack on the university network, where protocols like rlogin, telnet, and rsh failed to provide strong encryption. The original implementation was released as . . . → Read More: OpenSSH