One element that is often not know, or that should be measured after a problem statement or after a change in the infrastructure is the network . But how do you accurately measure the speed between two servers? Someone use ftp, scp or other file transfer protocols, these can give some indication, but probably you’ll […]
6 Tricks with awk
Awk has always been for me a source of great hatred and love, isan incredibly powerful command with which it is possible to build real programs. In this article I will give you 6 examples ready for use with your preferred terminal. AWK is a data driven programming language designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. It is an example of a programming language that extensively uses the string datatype, associative arrays (that is, arrays […]
Keystore management in Linux
Many Java application server use a keystore as a repository of their certificates and in general all Java applications use the one supplied with the JDK itself, Let’s see what is it and how to work with it. A keystore is a repository of security certificates, that can hold your keys and certificates and encrypt […]
Mono it’s good or bad for Linux ?
As first thing i want to say that i’m not so well informed about the background of the Mono project, his licenses model and possible implications, and I’m trying to get an idea after reading a few posts on techrights.org. In fact I read on techrights very strong words against this project, and so I’m […]
The best way to move data
Or scp VS tar+ssh VS rsync+ssh VS tar+netcat In a previous article in which i’ve show some uses of tar, I made an example of how to use it to move large amounts of data between two computers, but many people have said that it is better, or at least they prefer to use rsync, […]