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Remove DRM from Amazon Kindle’s ebooks using Linux

When you buy an ebook using your Kindle, there’s a 99% chance it’s a DRM file. That means you won’t be able to read it anywhere else but on your Kindle. And we won’t accept that. To be able to con[...]


Convert eBooks in Linux

Say you just bought an Amazon Kindle or a Barnes and Noble Nook. You want to convert your eBook collection to .EPUB or .MOBI format. For this, install Calibre. The application not only provides you with a graphical way t[...]


Batch resize images using the command line in Linux

If you have a ton of images that need resizing, you can do it all with the imagemagick package:cd /home/user/imagesmkdir resized_imagescp /home/user/images/* /home/user/images/resized_images Now that you have a copy of t[...]


Find out active IPs in a Linux LAN

If you are on a LAN and wish to find out which computers in it currently have access to that certain LAN, you can use the following command: for ip in $(seq 1 254); do ping -c 1 192.168.1.$ip>/dev/null; [ $? -eq 0 ] &[...]