I use ssh everyday and it’s my main tool to connect and manage servers, so I’m always interested in articles about ssh. Today I present an interesting article on this subject, written by Corey Quinn and posted on the sysadvent blog Every year or two, I like to look back over my client’s SSH configuration file […]
APT 4 Newbies
An interesting and detailed howto on apt, first posted on linux mint community tutorials Intro by Wikipedia: The Advanced Packaging Tool, or APT, is a free user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and its variants. APT simplifies the process of managing […]
How to Download Youtube Video or Audio Tracks from the Linux Terminal
In the past I’ve published some articles regarding how to download music from youtube with the program YouTube to MP3, or videos with the programs xVideoServiceThief and flareget, they all accomplish the work with graphical interfaces, and this can be a great plus for many users, but others could prefer a simple command line program […]
Hard Disks: Bad Block HowTo
Today I present an interesting aritcle on Bad Blocks, first published on http://virtualprivateserver.castlegem.co.uk/ Hardware fails, that is a fact. Nowadays, hard drives are rather reliable, but nevertheless every now and then we will see drives failing or at least having hiccups. Using smartcl/smartd to monitor disks is a good thing, below we will discuss how […]
Linux Terminal: How to do fuzzy search with tre-agrep
Probably everyone that use a terminal know the command grep, from its man page: grep searches the named input FILEs (or standard input if no files are named, or if a single hyphen-minus (-) is given as file name) for lines containing a match to the given PATTERN. By default, grep prints the matching lines. […]