gphoto2 allows you to directly connect a digital camera over USB and transfer the saved images and videos to your computer. This is very helpful when you don’t have access to a media card reader.
Install the gphoto2 package on your system.
In Gentoo:

# emerge media-gfx/gphoto2

In Ubuntu:

# aptitude install gphoto2

Start off by connecting your digital camera to [...]

You can find the MAC address of your system at the command line by using the ifconfig command. The ifconfig command will show you information on all your network interfaces. If no arguments are given ifconfig displays the status of the currently active interfaces.
You have to run this command as root or use sudo.

# [...]

You can find the IP address of your system at the command line by using the ifconfig command. The ifconfig command will show you information on all your network interfaces. If no arguments are given ifconfig displays the status of the currently active interfaces.
You have to run this command as root or use [...]