Fun – shell{&}co

Fake update screens

Funny site before the weekend about fake update screens: fakeupdate Prank your friends and colleagues with fake update screens! Press F11 to go fullscreen Press ENTER to cause a BSOD You have the choice between the following operating systems: Windows

Interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting

Here is a great tool (written in python): an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting called http-prompt The installation is quite simple : # pip install http-prompt Collecting http-prompt Downloading http-prompt-0.2.0.tar.gz Collecting click>=5.0 (from http-prompt) Downloading click-6.6.tar.gz

Unicode emojis from Powershell

Trevor has written a Powershell module that allows you to retrieve a Unicode emoji as a string. The cmdlet Get-Emoji has a -Name parameter with auto-completion to find easily the emoji names you want to use. The installation steps If

One-time secret

Very useful tool to share secret by providing a single-use URL : When you send people sensitive info like passwords and private links via email or chat, there are copies of that information stored in many places. If you use

Mount a Google drive under Linux

Useful tool if you want to mount your Google Drive on your favorite Linux distro. I have tested it on an Ubuntu workstation (latest stable release). Be sure Google Chrome or firefox are installed. The installation steps are quite simple:

Change your Android device ID

Change your Android device ID Simple and free, only one line can help you to change your Android device ID. No need to buy an app. One requirement : your device has to be rooted. The procedure is quite simple

MIT robot jumps autonomously

After the incredible robots created by Boston Dynamics, the MIT has posted the following video that shows the “cheetah” robot jumping autonomously: The robot can detect an obstacle up to 18 inches tall and jump over it while maintaining an

Create your own and free video surveillance system

This video surveillance system is based on this requirements: hardware a raspberry pi a network camera with MJPEG streaming software raspbian OS motion mutt msmtp I will show you in this tutorial how to create your own video surveillance with

Customize your Bash prompt

If you are like me sometimes, a lazy geek, you can now customize your bash prompt directly on a website. The author offers a way to generate the PS1 variable for your .bashrc file. You can drag and drop the

Download Pluzz videos with Python

I have written this script just “for fun”. The main prerequesite is to install the command-line program : youtube-dl. To do this, simply this the following command : pip install youtube-dl Youtube-dl is used to download the videos. My script

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