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[...] in user-friendly guides. I suggest hitting up vim as your editor to edit files from the command line. Don’t run as root Use good practices and use sudo instead of running as root. If you [...]

[...] version and all is well in the world with other dependencies. 3. Now run frescobaldi from the command line or from your menu. Frescobaldi is an awesome LilyPond editor. Frescobaldi has a score setup [...]

[...] It is possible to check a fingerprint of an SSL cert from the command line with openssl. In light of recent SHA1 deprecation in the news, this tip should be handy! The [...]

[...] It is pretty easy to get started with bitcoin all via the command line, including creating your bitcoin wallet. Here is a quick how-to! Note: Before proceeding, note [...]

[...] For the paranoid, it is possible to compile TrueCrypt from source on Debian Linux. Here is how to do it! 1. First download the TrueCrypt source from truecrypt.org: http://www. [...]

There is no need for apt-fast or other wrappers. apt.conf has a feature to enable parallel downloads and make your apt-get work much faster. Here is t [...]

Adobe Flash is not being maintained anymore for the Linux desktop. However, the Pepper Flash plugin is an alternative that is maintained by Google Chr [...]

[...] Here is a way to receive and read root mail locally with alpine on Debian Linux. Check it out! 1. Edit the file /etc/aliases and set root mail to go to your personal user [...]

[...] : This will test the bandwidth of your internet connection as one possible test. Here is an example output: iperf.stmiller.org is located in a San Francisco data center. Enjoy, [...]

[...] terms, you can just give sqlmap a url that contains a parameter via tack u: Here is an example output by just giving sqlmap a url and no other options: Database detection sqlmap will try to [...]

[...] tack x for a command line version: At the very end, recommended DNS servers are suggested: Example output: Note the cool use of google’s chart api in the results! Hack on, [...]

[...] ): 2. Next, upgrade packages on your system (equivalent of sudo apt-get upgrade): Below is an example output from one of my random servers: More on pkgng: https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng [...]

[...] such as blocking China. This is easy to do with one spiffy website and ufw in Ubuntu or other Linux distros. I’ll show you how! 1. First, get a list of IP address of a region you wish to block. [...]

[...] For Linux distros without systemd, supervisor can be used to run your node.js app. I’ll show you how to set this [...]

[...] namebench is an open source DNS benchmark app. It is available in most repos of Linux distros. Here is a quick how-to! 1. On Debian or Ubuntu, install namebench: 2. Then run with tack x [...]