CloudACM – Page 58 – Autonomous Computational Machines

Multimedia Meta-data – More than meets the eye

September 5, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

It is time to step back from system administrative tasks and move back into the subject of digitized multimedia data processing. The subject is a vast ever evolving beast. Multimedia basically consists of some combination of visual or auditory information. With digitized multimedia, additional data can be layered which provides any number of uses. In this post, I’ll be focusing on image file meta-data. There are several levels and flavors of meta-data which I won’t cover in detail here. However,…

RPi Network Packet Analysis Tooling

August 29, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

In this post, I’ll cover using the Rpi as a network analysis tool. The hardware of the Rpi and the open source software that runs on it is an extremely cost effective method to network diagnostics and troubleshooting. The hardware layout I’ll be using is fairly simple. The Rpi 3 has built in interfaces for both wired and wireless connections. I’ll be using the wired connection as my packet sniffing port. It will not have any IP bound to it….

Installing and configuring SmokePing on a Raspberry Pi

August 22, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

These instructions are based from the blogs at MyHomeBroadband.com and kugelfish.com. Install Smokeping onto the Pi The nice thing about these steps is they aren’t confined to the Raspberry Pi. You can apply this to any Linux distribution. Open a terminal session and run the following command. sudo apt-get install smokeping The downloader has Apache included, however this was setup earlier when Webmin was installed. This appears to be a factor with some settings not being changed. Once downloaded, and…