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October 8, 2025
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 Additional Server Functions
MQTT
Private Wiki
Blog
Vlog
Custom IoT Server(s) with a database backend and webpage
MisterHouse, Home Automation with Insteon and X10 ("Insteon is Dead, Long Live Insteon")
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status
https://check.spamhaus.org/listed/?searchterm=70.125.164.193
https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/23.251.102.74
 Making your Server Known
Search Engines, SEO
Blogrolls
Mailing lists
 Blogging Software
WordPress

 Build an RSS feed server for your articles, blogs and How-Tos

It appears most of the links are gone, looks like I'll have to write this up myself.

Dynamic R S S feeds using P H P, My S Q L and Apache tiffany b. brown http://www.tiffanybbrown.com/ article is gone, some interesting blogs remain
FeedCreator.class.php - bitfolge.de - Last Update v1.7.2 10-11-2004!
Parsing the News.com RSS feed with PHP http://builder.com.com/5100-6374-5109834.html com.com is dead
PHP Help RSS Feed http://www.phpfreaks.com/ Last updates were in 2018
PHPFreebies.com Resources About Php Rss Feed http://phpfreebies.com/resources/php-rss-feed.php take over by someone else
RSS Mix - rss2array http://www.rssmix.com/rss2array-parser/ Dead Domain
Zend Technologies - PHP 101
 Collecting Videos from YT, FB, X, etc.
From tecmint.com
Download 1080p or even 4K videos from youtube using only the linux command line
We'll look at yt-dlp, a community version fork of the deprecated youtube-dl

To get a pre-built yt-dlp release:
sudo yum install yt-dlp
To keep yt-dlp up to date after installation:
sudo yt-dlp -U
Read the yt-dlp Manual page:
man yt-dlp
Simple download command:
yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
This command will download a file to the current directory named using the title string as the filename prefix.

You can add additional videos to download at the same time by adding to the list, leaving a space between each URL.
yt-dlp  <video_url_1> <video_url_2> ...
Download an entire playlist:
yt-dlp -i --yes-playlist <playlist_url>
List available formats for a video:
yt-dlp -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
Download a high-quality format:
yt-dlp -f best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
Download a high-quality format, 1080:
yt-dlp -f 'bestvideo[height=1080]+bestaudio/best[height=1080]' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
Download a high-quality format, 4K:
yt-dlp -f 'bestvideo[height=2160]+bestaudio/best[height=2160]' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
Download a specific video format:
yt-dlp -f mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
Download only the audio track:
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
List the subtitles available:
yt-dlp --list-subs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
Download all subtitles along with the video:
yt-dlp -S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
Download specific subtitles along with the video:
yt-dlp -S en,es https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
Download subtitles only, like a transcript:
yt-dlp -S en --write-sub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2Oa298Kw
Optionally, to get the latest and greatest release from github:
sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

#If you don't have curl, use wget:
sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
 Running a Mailing List


 System-Level Ideas
IoT remote status monitoring and reporting:
     Temperature and Humidity
	 Ambient or directional light level
	 Door open/close status
	 Garage door open/close status
	 Motion detection
	 WireShark style network traffic capture for commercial security systems, logging activity to local database
IoT Database to log device, timestamp, function, value
IoT Direct to MQTT or MH systems (DTMQ? DTMH?)
Web Status page for current IoT status of all devices, functions and status
"AI-like" reporting pages for certain sensor activities, 
    probably just a template with blanks filled in based on the status or value
Reminders for garbage and recycling days
    RedHat      
RHEL - RHEL/CentOS9 - 8.1. Securing the rpcbind service
RHEL - RHEL/CentOS9 - Configuring and using database servers
RHEL - RHEL/CentOS9 - Chapter 5. Making systemd services start at boot time
RHEL - RHEL/CentOS9 - Managing systems using the RHEL 9 web console
RHEL - RHEL/CentOS9 - Chapter 1. Configuring printing
RHEL - RHEL/CentOS9 - Managing networking infrastructure services
RHEL - RHEL/CentOS9 - Chapter 1. Configuring and maintaining a Dovecot IMAP and POP3 server
RHEL - RHEL/CentOS9 - Setting up the Apache HTTP web server
RHEL - RHEL/CentOS9 - Searching for RHEL 9 content
RHEL - RHEL/CentOS9 -
    MySQL      
mysql date unknown - Examples of Common Queries
    Linux Operations      
phoenixnap date unknown - Linux Operations
server-world - 7/6/2022 - Apache httpd : Install
server-world - 7/6/2022 - MySQL 8.0 : Install
php.net - 7/6/2022 - PHP Manual
php.net - 7/6/2022 - Apache Functions in PHP
    IoT      
HTG - 05/06/2019 - What Is Windows 10 IoT, and When Would You Want to Use It?
    Windows 10      
HTG - 05/06/2019 - Windows 10 Is Getting a Built-in Linux Kernel
    Windows 7      
MUO - 06/06/2019 - How-To Make a USB Installation Disk for Windows 7 Without Extra Software
    File Sharing      
MUO - 06/28/2019 - How-To Transfer and Share Files Between Windows and Linux
    Windows      
HTG date unknown -
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- Burt Prelutsky
 
 
 
 
 
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