Ubuntu

Ubuntu webcam security system

Have you ever wanted to spy see on what is going on in your home while you are away? Motion is a piece of open source software that acts as a motion detector. It enables you to set-up a webcam server that you can have all your cameras connected too, so you can view them remotely and also upload them to a remote server. Motion should run on most linux distributions but for this exercise I’m using the desktop version of Ubuntu linux.

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HowTo: Have Windows fonts in Mint (or Ubuntu)

A little known fact to non-Linux users is that Microsoft fonts are (surprise, surprise) proprietary, and hence are not installed in most Linux distros by default. Back in the day when Microsoft gave a crap about interoperability, they released a reusable package of fonts that could be integrated into most any operating system.

This process will install the Microsoft fonts into pretty much every app you have installed -- including OpenOffice. If you're looking for a more streamlined way of installing these fonts you can also install them using Automatix

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1. Run the following command in terminal

Code: sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
2. Download the following: http://localhostr.com/files/f1f6f300383aa38e236c.tbz
3. Extract all of the files in the .tbz into the folder "/etc/fonts"
4. Log off and log back on

Source : LinuxMint

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