Outdoor Technologist

How do I figure out what the randomly appearing command windows are doing on Windows 10????

The best way: In an admin PowerShell, execute this command: This shows a nice window: Alternative: provides text file for storing: Open a command window, type the command above, then open Notepad and paste it there to see the history of command. I learned this from this site: https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/find-unknown-program-open-and-close-immediately/

Universal Dream Machine Pro: Changing Network Address

Having heard about industrial malware and other security threats, I picked up a Ubuquiti Dream Machine Pro a couple months ago to increase the security of my network and to allow me to create isolated networks (VLANs) for different projects that I work on. You can also look for proactive network threat detection solutions to…

dd for Windows 10

Copying SD to SD card https://rufus.ie/ https://www.balena.io/etcher/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ Backup Image to File on Windows10 Use win32diskimager and these directions: https://beebom.com/how-clone-raspberry-pi-sd-card-windows-linux-macos/ General SD Card Formatting The SD Card group has put out their own formatter created by Tuxera. Link: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/ Direct links to the files are below: Windows: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/eula_windows/index.html Mac: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/eula_mac/index.html

Don’t sudo hungover

Twice now, since working with Linux again, I’ve managed to be a fool and delete my windows partition… This happens because I’m hungover, and because I take the extra steps of deleting the partitions on the SD Cards before I reimage them to ensure that I don’t mess up and test the wrong build, again!…

Linux default Programs

For text mimeopen -d file.txt Once it is open it gives you the choices – select the one you want. Info: https://superuser.com/questions/474079/how-do-i-set-notepad-as-the-default-editor

SCP – PuTTY or WinSCP

PSCP Transferring files between my linux and Windows10 machine for quicker transfer vs downloading larger files https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html Specific file: https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/pscp.exe WinSCP It has a GUI, so I’ll use it until I get comfortable with command line again. https://winscp.net/eng/download.php Direct Download: https://winscp.net/download/WinSCP-5.17.7-Setup.exe

WSL2 drive mount & dd

Mount a windows drive in WSL2. Check to see if the /mnt/ directory exists. If not, create it. Mine existed so I just mounted it: dd doesn’t work (yet) On to my linux machine…

View Google WiFi ARP table

Do this: http://192.168.86.1/api/v1/diagnostic-report File downloads and you can open in a terminal with ‘less’ Info Source: https://support.google.com/googlenest/thread/497675?hl=en&msgid=502464

RPi Camera (Part II)

Let’s stream video https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/use-raspberry-pi-as-pc-webcam IMPORTANT!!!! Tom’s Hardware left the “.so” off of the end of this command. I’m not sure if it was an accident or marketing to start the conversation, but don’t get caught up by it! On the receiver side:

RPi Camera (Part I)

Used these directions https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-picamera/3 I was able to take a picture and record a short video