System & Network Admin

Dear Backers, We apologize for the long pause since our last update. However, we think the best update anyone can get is a tracking number for their order. To date, we've managed to fill all the mainboards, desktops, and about 25% of the laptop orders. We're currently cranking laptops out at a rate of about 30 per week, which means we'll be finished with the bulk of the campaign orders in about 4­...

Now that we've had some time to become familiar with Novena, we've seen new and interesting bugs crop up. We've spent time fixing these bugs, and the result is a system that is much more stable.

NUT will be installed on Debian (Proxmox) and will be linked to a single APC UPS. When there is a power failure, NUT will send an email…

How to set up a NUT server in Proxmox, to work with your APC UPS. We also include monitoring using Docker (Portainer) and Home-Assistant.

Prevent pushing to “main” locally with this git config snippet. It doesn’t rely on setting up the remote branch protections, though you should also do that.

Thanks to UCTRONICS for sending me this to test.official linkhttps://www.uctronics.com/uctronics-pi-5-rack-pro-1u-rack-mount-with-4-m-2-nvme-ssd-base-pcie-to...

I will explain how to identify hard drive bottlenecks on Linux using various tools and commands, and what to look for when troubleshooting disk-related issues.

By default, bash is the most popular command language simply because it’s included in most *nix operating systems. Additionally, people don’t tend to spend a lot of time thinking about …

Life was simpler when everything your computer did was text-based. It is easy enough to shove data into one end of a pipe and take it out of the other. Sure, if the pipe extends across the network,…

A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.

TextExpander is the most popular text replacement and shortcut app. Generate custom word, sentence, and paragraph text with keyboard shortcuts.

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Who doesn’t like dial-up internet? Even if those who survived the dial-up years are happy to be on broadband, and those who are still on dial-up wish that they weren’t, there’s de…

Open source query caching for PostgreSQL

ChatTCP is an TCP analysis application dedicated to simplifying the analysis of TCP, making it as easy as reading chat logs!

Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse

Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

There are plenty of commands to choose from when you want to know how hard your disks are working or identify potential slowdowns.

Resolving a problem when the find utility produces binary output when you expect text

Learn how to use CNCF incubating project Buildpacks, an application definition, and image build to skip the Dockerfile step and increase developer productivity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWjUN8ZiQUI&t=0s In this video, you will learn how to connect Zoom and OBS together. Connecting OBS to Zoom allows you to

A couple of simple scripts inspired by Dan Sturm.

You may want to launch a script or program on boot, but you don't see an option for it on Raspberry Pi OS. It's a question I often hear about, and the methods are not