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I suppose I’ve been doing this for too long. What comes as second nature, and common-sense, to me, seems to be exceedingly complicated for some other people to understand. Or, maybe, as I sometimes think, they just cannot ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has been released for several months now, with the first point release update 18.04.1 arriving in late July. Users wanting to use the prescribed upgrade mechanism from an older Ubuntu LTS release had to wait till ...
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DigitalOcean has been busy in 2017 launching a handful of new services. For people who just want to run simple virtual machines, those developments are nice, but perhaps not terribly relevant. Today, however, DigitalOcean has ...
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There was recently this cute comic that was makings its rounds on my newsfeed, about how you should use SIGTERM instead of SIGKILL. It seems to come from Daniel Stori on DZone, posted on 1st April this year. Well, I’ve got ...
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I’ve been running my WordPress blog for about 9 years. During this time, there have been many changes, both front-facing ones as well as the underlying technical bits. As a techie, I like to build and tweak ...
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A few days I shared this story, as did many others on the Internet, about how a man accidentally deleted his company. It’s quite unbelievable, not not altogether impossible. Indeed, some had speculated it to be not legit. ...
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It’s every system administrator’s nightmare. The Unix command rm is powerful and wielded properly can be a very useful tool. But used improperly, it can devour you. That is what has happened at a web hosting ...
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Some of us Mac users who are also Linux users might have a Linux box server sitting at home. I have one that has mostly been relegated to the role of a network attached storage, although I still do various other odds and ends ...
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This is a short tutorial on setting up file sharing services on CentOS 7. I primarily wanted to document the steps on setting up Apple Filing Protocol (AFP). However, Windows file sharing, aka Server Message Block (SMB), is ...
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Installing one server isn’t difficult. It’s not really time consuming either. But it’s a whole lot different when you have to setup a huge number of servers. The ideal state of affairs, for me, is that once the ...
