System & Network Admin

With Cron, you can schedule just about any type of job on Linux, such as backing up specific directories to an external drive.

An often overlooked dimension of data collection is flow data from hosts. This is not a new concept, there have been tools built for this for a very long time, but in many cases, and especially over the last 8-10 years, many system engineers have gravitated toward tooling like grafana and prometheus. While these are fine tools and if done well provide an excellent view of host health, they aren’t really a full picture of host behavior.

The EFF has issued a warning to online service providers, including ISPs, web site publishers, and bloggers, to start deleting their log files ASAP. The EFF has also created a free tool called logfinder that makes it easier to find and delete those log...

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Open source macro application that is easy to use, powerful and low on pc resources. Available for Windows and Linux.

Why Unix time is not exactly what it is often described to be, and a proposal for fixing it.

How to look inside the protocol workings of the Stream Deck Plus, the flexible and versatile button box that can do almost anything.

Learn how to use Grafana to monitor SNMP devices using InfluxDB and Telegraf in 10 minutes or less, by using our step by step approach.

Regular expression tester with syntax highlighting, explanation, cheat sheet for PHP/PCRE, Python, GO, JavaScript, Java, C#/.NET, Rust.

What do you do when a crowdfunded product you really liked gets cancelled? Naturally, you take the idea and build your own version of it. That’s what [Salim Benbouziyane] did when the Focus D…

Everyone likes something cheap, and when that cheap thing is a router that’s supported by OpenWRT, it sounds like a win. [Hennung Paul] ordered a Wavlink WL-WN586X3 for the princely sum of 39…

Create recognizable GUIDs from Hex-l33t words. Use this to generate constant GUIDs when needed. Guaranteed not to be unique.

Docker Compose Manager - Manage Docker Compose environments efficiently with ease.

In scenarios like changing the swap size, you should disable the swap first. This quick tutorial shows the steps for disabling swap in Linux.

Are you familiar with Huffman encoding? That’s where you pick shorter codes for more frequent letters. Morse code is the same way, in that the most-used letters are the shortest. [Matheus Ric…

Make your shell workflow as smooth as possible by creating helpers designed just for you.

Stream games at up to 4K at 60 fps from your gaming PC to your big TV.

World's simplest collection of useful PNG utilities. Resize PNG, rotate PNG, crop PNG, convert PNG to JPG, GIF, BMP, Webp, base64, and more.

The BUKMARK.CLUB directory.

This tutorial will you how to install and use etckeeper so you can keep tabs on the comings and goings of your /etc/ directory.

It might come as a surprise to some that IEEE, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, does more than send out mailers asking people to renew their memberships. In fact, they also m…

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