Switching away from Google
Check out what else Nick is doing over on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UAwBUum7CPN5buc-_N1Fw. These videos, re-posted here with permission, was originally published on Nick’s YouTube […]
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A URL Shortener at the BASH/ZSH Prompt
URL shortening is nothing new, it was originally made popular due to the 140 character limit of Twitter and the 160 character limit of SMS […]
Switching to elementary OS
Well after many years of confusion we’re finally happy to be able to showcase the entirely unaffiliated – but still awesome! – YouTube channel The […]
Setup a Raspberry Pi as a NAS in two minutes!
How to setup a Raspberry Pi as Network attached storage in two minutes! SMB Conf: http://pastebin.com/kz9DBTCk Check out what else James is doing over on […]
Persistent Ramdisk on Debain/Ubuntu
The performance of a RAM drive is in general orders of magnitude faster than other forms of storage media, such as an SSD, hard drive, […]
Trying out .NET Core on Linux
Ever since the announcement of .NET Core I’ve been interesting in writing some C# code on my Linux desktop. Recently I found some time to […]
Using rsync via the Windows Subsystem for Linux to backup a Windows computer
From the world of “why would anyone ever bother to do this?” comes a new approach to backing up your favourite Windows 10 computer! OK […]
Enabling remote desktop sharing (VNC) on Linux Mint 19
As of Linux Mint 19 there is no longer a menu option for the old vino-preference screen which allowed you to enable remote desktop at […]
The caret is mightier than the up arrow
I learned a fun bash trick about a week ago that I thought I would share. In a bash shell you can use the caret […]
Working with logical Volumes (part 3)
Following this tutorial assumes that you have followed along with the other two parts in this series. However, if you already have some familiarity with […]
Working with logical volumes (part 2)
In this post I want to cover one of the most commonly used features of lvm, extending a logical volume. If you were following along […]
Linux Server won’t restart
Not too long ago I ran into a problem where a server with systemd would not shutdown or reboot through normal means. When executing sudo shutdown […]
Open multiple files with vim
There are many instances when it’s useful to have multiple files open in vim, but if you aren’t familiar with this tool you can find […]
How to RTFM (Read the *#&@ Manual)
Finding help with Linux If you hang out in enough Linux forums asking questions sooner or later someone will tell you to read the manual […]
RPM package queries
This post is just a quick walk-through of some basic commands to help you find information about rpm packages. These commands will work for any […]
Opera – Can’t open user profile directory
I got the following ominous sounding message as I was about to fire up my Opera browser at the office today: I don’t believe I’ve […]
OpenSUSE patch vs update
If you dig into the man pages for zypper, you will notice that zypper provides three distinct options for keeping your OpenSUSE system up-to-date; update […]
How to install Gnome Web (Epiphany) on Red Hat Linux
Accessing internal services on paranoidpenguin.net using self-signed certificates does no longer work in my preferred browser due to HSTS preloading. Instead of actually fixing the issue […]
Satellite 6 Duplicate Host Names with Puppet
Satellite 6, Red Hat’s patch, configuration, and deployment management one stop shop solution is a powerful tool. It is also a formidable and complicated piece […]
Working with Linux Files – Access Control Lists
In the last post, we looked at basic file permissions. The ideas covered in that post are probably enough to get you through a large portion […]