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Recovering Files From an Unmountable USB Key

The other night, myself and Rory managed to recover his friend’s thesis from a wonky USB thumb drive. We used PhotoRec on Ubuntu Linux. PhotoRec comes with the TestDisk utility. You can install TestDisk via: $apt-get update $apt-get install testdisk The first thing we did was run dmesg in a terminal to get a bit [...]

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Webcam Motion Detection in Ubuntu Linux

I bought a cheap usb webcam to add to the list of devices for my fyp. The idea is to push presence updates when motion is detected. I’ll be using Motion to handle motion detection. Detailed installation and configuration instructions can be found at InfectedProject. You can set motion to run commands when certain events [...]

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