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Transferring Files between Computers and Phones using Wi-Fi

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Phones are essentially miniaturized computers. If you connect your phone to a monitor, keyboard and mouse, it essentially becomes a computer. In this article, let us discuss about how to use an Android phone or a computer as a server and transfer the data into another phone or computer. Doing this procedure on an Android device, you just need to install the app named Termux, which provides you with a Linux Terminal on Android. If you don't have python installed already, install it using apt-get or apt  using the respective commands listed below on your Linux Terminal or Termux. Note that admin privileges may be required to do so. apt install python apt-get install python After you are done installing, before you create the server, you need to know what your IP address is so that other devices can access it. To obtain the IP address, simply type in the following command: ifconfig  In this case, the highlighted portion in the image above is the IP Address, 192.16...

Creating awesome text banners in Linux Terminal

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In several opensource projects that we see around in the web, certain developers prefer to add banners like the following at the top of the source code. These do look cool, but I have often wondered why anyone would waste so much time making things like these. As I have been surfing around the web, I happened to see Linux Terminal apps that generates these for you. I have used them to generate such banners for the BuddyGo . Figlet: To install Figlet, use the following command (if you have apt-get): sudo apt-get install figlet Toilet To install Toilet, type the following in your linux command line: sudo apt-get install toilet Banner: To install Banner, type the following in your linux command line: sudo apt-get install sysvbanner Now, you can also contribute to the Open Source community in style. Make contributions on GitHub, BitBucket, or whichever platform you are using.