System & Network Admin

Aliases provide an easy way to reuse complicated or often-used commands.

Let's imagine your product didn't die and managed to gain some real traction (🎉 CONGRATULATIONS!). After a few years it stops being a small and nimble project and turns into something much bigger, involving dozens and hundreds of people. Project lifecycle: MVP - growth - maintenance What does a full-stack engineer

Our topic today is configuring desktop Linux DNS settings. It’s simple in principle and can yield privacy, security, and availability benefits. Yet despite how straightforward it is in theory and historically was in practice, customizing your device’s DNS is no longer an intuitive matter.

This installment will start by fleshing out how systemd-resolved routes queries. From there, I will outline how to configure DNS on a per-link basis. To close, I will reflect on why it’s so difficult to get simple, consistent, and actionable information on this subject.

In this post, we will see how we can use the history command effectively to extract the commands that were executed by users in the Bash shell.

Leap years are not quite as regular as we might have believed. A fairly simple Linux script can tell you whether a year will be a leap year or not.

Unlock the secrets of Python development on Windows with our comprehensive guide. Learn version control, package management, and streamline your projects effortlessly.

Requiring password changes is a common security practice, and Linux systems admins can use the chage command to view and change password expiration information.

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Scrutiny can monitor the SMART health of multiple disks in multiple servers and expose it through a web interface.

This guide will show you how to install Scrutiny, a hard drive health dashboard and monitoring solution, on Unraid.

For digitalizing your paper docs there is no alternative to scanners. Here are the best scanning tools for Linux that will get the job done.

VueScan is the easiest way to get your scanner working on macOS, Windows and more. VueScan includes a driver for your scanner even though it isn't support anymore.

This page explains how to install or compile GIMP filters/plugins/extensions on a Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS/RHEL and Fedora Linux to improve your productivity.

ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a command-line version of the du command, which is based on ncurses and offers the fastest way to analyze and track disk space.

Scalpel is a data recovery tool that is specifically crafted to scan storage devices to retrieve lost files that may have been accidentally deleted.

The creator of PostgreSQL has teamed with the creator of Apache Spark to build a cloud OS on top of a distributed database, aiming to offer better security and less management complexity than the Linux/K8s combo so widely-used today.

Combine machine learning, artificial intelligence, live migration and Kubernetes to enhance cloud and stateful application resilience.

An open-source distributed system for running WebSocket backends at scale

As computing power increases with each new iteration of processors, actual power consumption tends to increase as well. All that waste heat has to go somewhere, and while plenty of us are content t…

Trickle is a network bandwidth shaper tool that allows us to manage the upload and download speeds of applications in Linux systems.

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