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Add New Disk to Linux: CLI and GUI Guide

16 December 2025 by Lubos Rendek

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Rayhunter Installation Tutorial: Convert Verizon Orbic Speed RC400L into a "Stingray" Detector

Rayhunter Tutorial: Convert a Verizon Orbic Speed RC400L into a Stingray Detector

16 December 2025 by Robbie Cummins (libr34all)

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Rayhunter on a Verizon Orbic Speed RC400L mobile hotspot using Kali GNU/Linux on a x86_64 architecture computer. This article will also detail accessing the Rayhunter web interface, maintaining your Rayhunter, and [optionally] reporting Cell Site Simulator (also known as IMSI-catcher or “Stingray”) detection data to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for further analyzation. Rayhunter setup is cheap (~$20) and user-friendly – a project for technical and less-technical users alike!

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Although not covered in this tutorial, Rayhunter is also able to be installed using Operating Systems other than GNU/Linux such as MacOS and Windows, and computer architectures other than x86_64, such as ARM64, and ARMv7/v8 32-bit.

Burn ISO to USB on Linux: Write & Flash CLI/GUI Guide

5 November 2025 by Luke Reynolds

The purpose of this tutorial is to show how to burn an ISO file to a USB drive. USB drives have recently overtaken CDs and DVDs as the primary media of physically distributed software. It is now a common task for system administrators and normal users to install operating systems and software via USB.

How to Use OpenAI Whisper Voice-to-Text with NVIDIA GPU on Debian/Ubuntu

21 October 2025 by Lubos Rendek

OpenAI Whisper is a powerful speech recognition system that can transcribe audio files with impressive accuracy. When combined with NVIDIA GPU acceleration through CUDA, Whisper can process audio files significantly faster than CPU-only processing. This guide demonstrates how to install and use Whisper with GPU support on Debian and Ubuntu Linux systems.

Debian 13 Nvidia Driver Installation

27 September 2025 by Lubos Rendek

The NVIDIA GPU drivers are essential for utilizing the full capabilities of NVIDIA graphics cards on Linux systems. Whether you’re setting up a bare metal Debian installation or configuring GPU passthrough in a virtualized environment, the driver installation process remains consistent. This guide will walk you through installing the proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Debian 13 (Trixie), ensuring your graphics card is properly recognized and functional for gaming, CUDA computing, or professional workloads.

How to repair and clone disk with ddrescue

22 September 2025 by Korbin Brown

ddrescue is a tool that can be used to repair and clone disks on a Linux system. This includes hard drives, partitions, DVD discs, flash drives, or really any storage device. It performs data recovery by copying data as blocks.

How to install Void Linux with LVM on LUKS encryption

22 September 2025 by Egidio Docile

Since all the major linux distributions adopted Systemd as their init system, they progressively became more and more similar to each other. Void Linux is an exception: it was written from scratch entirely by volunteers, uses Runit as its init system and service manager, and, as its name may suggest, it was designed with simplicity in mind.

Linux hardware monitoring tools

22 September 2025 by Luke Reynolds

Whether you’re a home user or a system/network administrator at a large site, monitoring your Linux system helps you in many ways – possibly more than you currently know.

How to mount partition with ntfs file system and read write access

22 September 2025 by Luke Reynolds

NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is developed by Microsoft for use on their Windows operating systems. NTFS is not normally used on Linux systems, but has been the default file system on Windows for many years. Linux users are probably used to seeing drives with the ext4 file system, which is ordinarily the default and certainly the most widespread in the Linux realm.

Apt proxy configuration on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux

22 September 2025 by Lubos Rendek

You are reading a quick tutorial on how to configure apt proxy server and client on Ubuntu 20.04 focal fossa Linux

In this tutorial you will learn:

How to install and configure apt proxy server
How to start apt proxy server
How to open firewall port for apt proxy incoming traffic
How to configure apt proxy client

Data recovery of deleted files from the FAT filesystem

22 September 2025 by Luke Reynolds

Although FAT32 or FAT16 are very old file systems, which is reflected in their poor performance in comparison to other file system alternatives, they are still widely used by many electronic devices. Usually, these devices include USB sticks, digital cameras, camcorders and other peripheral storage devices.

There’s a good chance that you own and store personal data on a device with the FAT filesystem. If you accidentally delete important data from the device, we’ve got good news for you: it can be recovered on Linux.

In this guide, we’ll go over the step by step instructions to recover deleted data from the FAT filesystem on Linux. Read on as we use the testdisk command to perform file recovery.

In this tutorial you will learn:

How to create a low level backup of FAT filesystem
How to install testdisk tool on major linux distros
How to use testdisk to recover deleted files from FAT

USB Drive benchmark test on Linux

22 September 2025 by Korbin Brown

If you want to perform a benchmark test on a USB thumb drive or other external USB hard drive, the procedure is quite similar to doing a benchmark test on an ordinary, internal storage device. All that we need to do is measure the read and write speed of the USB drive. In this tutorial, you will see how to benchmark test a USB drive via command line and GUI on a Linux system.