Viewing a webcam with MPlayer in Linux
MPlayer has tons of other uses besides viewing video files. For example, you can view your webcam with it: mplayer -cache 128 -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://
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Show package sizes in Ubuntu
If you ever want to find out how much space your packages are using, do a simple dpkg-query -Wf ‘${Package}\t${Installed-Size}\n’
Recover lost RAR passwords with Linux
Ever lost the password to an archive file? You can recover it from the CLI with rarcrack. Just be sure you have the unrar-free and NOT the unrar-nonfree package installed. It tries a bruteforce method on the archive file and also works with other archive filetypes: INFO: detected file type: rarINFO: cracking test_archive.rar, status file:… Read More »
Find files larger than a given size in Linux
Using the command line, you can search for files larger than a given filesize using find /path/to/dir-containing-files -type f -size +1024k This will search for files larger than 1MB (1024k). Use multiples of 8 to change the filesize number.