This year's posts - Site Archive
- App for Migrating Away From Dead RHEL Clones Adds Scientific Linux Support
- Would Linux Have Helped to Avoid the CrowdStrike Catastrophe?
- Can’t Find a File You’ve Moved on Linux? The Culprit Might be Slash
2023
- Mechanical Pencil Solder Feeder Hack
- How to Delete HUGE (100-200GB) Files in Linux
- Using the Linux Cat Command to Manage Files and Directories
- The USAF (Almost) Declares War on Illinois Radio Amateurs
2021
- How to Check Battery Status Using Linux Command Line
- Fix Firefox Proton (Bring Back Photon)
- Download mp3 files linked in a RSS podcast feed
- Testssl.sh – Testing TLS/SSL Encryption Anywhere on Any Port
- ASCII Schematic Diagrams
- How to Discover, From Inside a Bash Script, the Path the Script Is In
- Run entire shell script as root
- How to identify potentially vulnerable network daemons on your Linux systems
- How to embed a binary file in a bash shell script
- Linux Fu: Serial Untethered
- helloSystem is a FreeBSD Distro Modelled on Mac OS X (Off Topic)
2020
- SolarWinds attack explained: And why it was so hard to detect
- Webboot Is Becoming Quite Useful For Quickly/Easily Booting ISOs From The Web
- 9 Linux directories you must back up and one you shouldn’t
- How to Add a Simple Progress Bar in Shell Script
- Secure NTP with NTS
- uBlock Origin: How to hide Google’s script blocking warning for websites using Funding Choices
- How To Find Exact Installation Date And Time Of Your Linux OS
- Linux-Fu: One at a Time, Please! Critical Sections in Bash Scripts
- You Are a Target
- A time capsule of computer code is buried deep in the Arctic
- Linux Fu: Keep In Sync
- Easily Retrieve Lost Data Using Linux's Data Recovery Process
- Tales From the Sysadmin: Impending Hard Drive Doom
- How to use the NanoVNA to sweep / measure an antenna system’s SWR and optimize its tuning
- Search Yourself Online
- An introduction to the Linux /etc/fstab file
- Use this script to find a Raspberry Pi on your network
- You Are a Target
- Transmit digital television signals over Qatar Oscar 100 satellite
- Why Data Is Important And How To Protect It
- Forget About Zoom — Here are 3 Open Source Zoom Alternatives
- 4 Git scripts I can't live without
- Turn Your Linux PC Into Bluetooth Speakers For Your Phone
- A Tidy Little OBD Display For Your Car
- Hams Cross the Atlantic on UHF
- How to Create Self-Extracting Archives with shar in Linux
- How to delete your Facebook account
- Transform your phone into a 90s-era PC with Progressbar95
- Amateur Radio
2019
- Well-Engineered RF Amplifier Powers Ham Radio Contacts
- Understanding system calls on Linux with strace
- A Miniature Radio Telescope in Every Backyard
- DNS-over-HTTPS Is the Wrong Partial Solution
- Bouncing Signals Off The Moon
- Secret Messages Could be Hiding in Your Server Logs
- Oops! Debugging Kernel Panics
- generate random mac-address using md5sum + sed
- Show your current network interface in use
- Without a GUI--How to Live Entirely in a Terminal
- unset all http proxy related environment variables in one go in the current shell
- Why Smart Cards Are Smart
- How To Verify NTP Setup (Sync) is Working or Not In Linux?
- Convert Markdown files to word processor docs using pandoc
- The magic of BASH string expansion
- Superpaper is an Advanced Multi-Monitor Wallpaper Tool for Linux
- How to Read a File Line By Line in Bash
- Signing Git Commits
- What The @#$%&! (Heck) is this
- Bash Heredoc
- Using the force at the Linux command line
- Push to all (different) remotes in git directory without having to combine them.
- jwhois – A Tool To Check Information About Ownership Of A Domain Name And IP Address In Linux
- Safely Creating Temporary Files and Directories for Shell Scripting
- Get Your IP Geographic Location with curl and jq
- Raspberry Pi Becomes The Encrypted Password Keeper You Need
- How to import your existing SSH keys into your GPG key
- Back in the Day: UNIX, Minix and Linux
- How to identify duplicate files on Linux
- Clean BASH command history from duplicates, but preserve the chronological command order
- Spy on your smart home with this open source research tool
- 10 Best Tiling Window Managers for Linux
- Scary Emails
- Weekend Reading: Scary Tales from the Server Room
- The trouble with Windows CRLF
- 3 Ways to Mount a Windows Share in Linux
- How to Generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) in Linux
- The Lost Worlds of Telnet
- Using Trap to Exit Bash Scripts Cleanly
- From A Dead Laptop To A Portable KVM And PiTop
- Programmatic way to find and set your timezone
- ReactOS inches toward becoming a viable open source Windows clone
- HTTP Vs. HTTPS
- What Is Credential Stuffing?
- How to Password Protect and Encrypt a File on Linux Command Line
- What's the right amount of swap space for a modern Linux system?
- Outlaw Shellbot Infects Linux Servers to Mine for Monero
- Top 5 Linux Distributions for New Users
- Writing Secure Shell Scripts
- Capture SMTP / POP3 Email
- Extract HTTP Passwords in POST Requests
- Capture FTP Credentials and Commands
- Capture all plaintext passwords
- Tamper-Evident Boot with Heads
- Linux Fu - Easier File Watching
- Never Try to Fix the Problem When Hacked
- How To Administer User Accounts In Mysql
- Tips and tricks for using CUPS for printing with Linux
- How To Delete a Local and Remote Git Branch
- Add keybindings for cycling through completions (or for inserting the last or first completion) in Bash
- Solving the Year 2038 problem in the Linux kernel
- "Pretty print" $PATH, show directories in $PATH, one per line with replacement pattern using shell parameter expansion
- Protect Your Websites with Let's Encrypt
- (Don't) Return to Sender: How to Protect Yourself From Email Tracking
- 9 Cheat Sheets for Linux and Open Source
- Linux Fu - The Kitchen Sync
- Non-Child Process Exit Notification Support
- Create your own video streaming server with Linux
- How ASLR protects Linux systems from buffer overflow attacks
- 7 CI/CD Tools for Sysadmins
- Using the SSH Config File
- Tiger – The Unix Security Audit and Intrusion Detection Tool
- dmesg follow/wait for new kernel messages
- How to Encrypt Your DNS With DNSCrypt on Ubuntu and Debian
- Tilix 1.8.7 Released, Here’s How to Install it on Ubuntu
- The top 5 Linux and open-source stories of 2018
- Tmate – Securely Share SSH Terminal Session with Linux Users
- 5 open source resolutions for 2019
- Wordpress to Jekyll Migration Success!!
2018
- Maximize your Ansible skills with these 7 how-tos
- Make Linux Boot Faster by Disabling Unnecessary Services
- Introduction To Ansible
- Another Year Closer, Linux 4.21 Getting More Preparations For Y2038 Problem
- A NASA Hack, a PewDiePie Fan, and More Security News
- Most home routers lack simple Linux OS hardening security
- The LibreRouter project aims to make mesh networks simple and affordable
- How to Configure and Maintain High Availability/Clustering in Linux
- Check SSL expiry from commandline
- Logitech flaw fixed after Project Zero disclosure
- 10 Best Native Linux Games
- How to Install and Configure Basic OpnSense Firewall
- Confirmed VPN wants to bring transparency to the VPN industry
- The creator of 'Doom' is releasing nine new levels for free in 2019
- Weekend Reading: Sysadmin 101
- Save $50 on the Fire TV Recast at Amazon ahead of Black Friday
- What Is Screen Tearing and How to Get Rid of It on Linux
- An introduction to Udev: The Linux subsystem for managing device events
- sysget – A Front-end for Every Package Manager in Linux
- Why Your Server Monitoring (Still) Sucks
- Yubikey Full Disk Encryption with LUKS
- Hack My House: ZoneMinder’s Keeping an Eye on the Place
- How to use arrays in bash script
- Have a Plan for Netplan
- Encrypted Evernote Alternative Turtl v0.7 Includes Rewritten Server, New Spaces Feature
- How to Flush the DNS Cache on Ubuntu
- How to Use Fail2ban to Secure Your Linux Server
- Free eBook from Packt - Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
- Revised Schrödinger's cat experiment challenges reality
- Edit PDFs with Xournal
- Find your systems easily on a LAN with mDNS
- Linux Kernel Vs. Mac Kernel
- Easy way to integrate Apache with modsecurity on Ubuntu
- Copy and Paste in Screen
- Check if your desired password is already available in haveibeenpwnd database.
- Process command output line by line in a while loop
- 5 Tools to Scan a Linux Server for Malware and Rootkits
- How to create a custom Ubuntu ISO with Cubic
- There’s A Computer In This Hard Drive
- Generate Random Text based on Length
- Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs
- HackUp is a Desktop Hacker News Client for Linux
- Why is it so hard to 'root' a smartphone?
- Linux Fu: Watch That Filesystem
- Tor Hidden Services
- Grafana – An Open Source Software for Analytics and Monitoring
- Breach detection with Linux filesystem forensics
- Exodus – Safely Copy Linux Binaries From One Linux System to Another
- Secure WordPress Against Fake and Disposable Email Spam
- Use Glances to Monitor Remote Linux in Web Server Mode
- How to trigger commands on File/Directory changes with Incron on Debian
- Terry Pratchett
2017
- Command-line russian roulette
- Wake up and Shut Down Linux Automatically
- A Shell Script to Send Email Alert When Memory Gets Low
- IBM Release Open Source Font, Here’s How To Use it on Ubuntu
- Linux totally dominates supercomputers
- Latest DOJ WTFness: Encryption Is Like A Locked House That Won't Let Its Owners Back Inside
- Notes Up is a Markdown Editor for Linux
- Install Debian 9 (Stretch) via PXE Network Boot Server
- Install a Centralized Log Server with Rsyslog in Debian 9
- How to Configure PAM to Audit Logging Shell User Activity
- How to Monitor Linux Commands Executed by System Users in Real-time
- What to Bring
- Still in Use
- Use the Warp Core to charge your devices, ‘Star Trek’-style
- Fully modular desk is every computer geek's dream come true
- MConnect, the Android GNOME Shell Extension, Has Been Updated
- Integrate KDE Connect with GNOME Shell
- Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
- Debian vs Ubuntu: Compared as a Desktop and as a Server
- How to work flexible hours and make $80,000 a year as a coder
- Why you should always do documentation before development
- Apt-Fast To Speed Up Your Package Downloads In Ubuntu/Debian
- Apt-Fast To Speed Up Your Package Downloads In Ubuntu/Debian
- Linux socket-to-socket tunnel (MySQL example)
- Automatically Record/Capture All Users Terminal Sessions Activity In Linux
- 3 MPD clients for an Armbian music server
- Steve Suehring's CompTIA Linux+ and LPIC Practice Tests (Sybex)
- Steghide – An Easy way to Hide Confidential Data Inside Images and Sound Objects in Linux
- Guide To Finding a Home-Based Linux Job
- This electric skateboard will change your commute forever
- Make Linux Look Like OSX With OSX Arc Collection
- rdiff-backup – A Remote Incremental Backup Tool for Linux
- Linux-Fu: Applications on the Web
- Remote ssh connection via sshuttle to Overcloud TripleO QuickStart VMs (Master branch)
- Linux-Fu: Keeping Things Running
- Do you trust your hard drive indication light?
- 'Big Bang Theory's' Stuart wears Ubuntu T-shirt
- What Does a Hacker Do With A Photocopier?
- Editor's Soapbox: The Billable Hour
- The FBI Can Engage In All Sorts Of Surveillance And Snooping Without Actually Placing Someone Under Investigation
- Komorebi is an Animated/Parallax Wallpaper App for Ubuntu (Updated)
- How to Build the Ultimate Movie and Music Server
- I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
- One More Time With Feeling: 'Anonymized' User Data Not Really Anonymous
- Keep your texts private in Trump's America (and everywhere else, too)
- Delete all but the last 1000 lines of file
- [one-liners] Find Reverse Depends of a Package
- How To Install KDE Connect on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Updated)
2016
- NethServer: Linux without All That Linux Stuff
- Apt-cacher-ng Toggle Proxy on Hosts
- Locking Down Your Linux Server
- Unsafe at any clock speed: Linux kernel security needs a rethink
- Raspberry Pi Scanner Server
- Linus Torvalds Reflects on 25 Years of Linux
- Microsoft Powershell Is Now Available For Linux
- Edward Snowden says Russians probably hacked the NSA
- Writing systemd Units
- NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden collaborates on ultra-secure iPhone case
- Andromium’s $99 Superbook turns your Android phone into a laptop (crowdfunding)
- Triple Monitor Gaming with Nvidia Graphics on Linux
- Best Universal Package Manager for Linux?
- Nirvana Like You’ve Never Heard Them Before
- Is 32-bit Nearing End-of-Life at Some Linux Distros?
- Who needs a GUI? How to live in a Linux terminal.
- Get Weather Information From A Terminal Using Nothing But cURL
- Algorithms
- Official Reddit app for Android is finally here, ready for public download
- Is Your Computer Stable?
2015
- Woman dumps rare Apple I worth $200,000 at recycling center
- I Just Installed Windows Mint.... Wait What?!
- Command fu: a function to find the fastest free DNS server
- Runs Linux: Scientists Use Ubuntu to Interpret Hubble Telescope Data - Softpedia
- Security Audit Of TrueCrypt Doesn't Find Any Backdoors -- But What Will Happen To TrueCrypt?
- HTTPS EVERYWHERE!!!
- Install and Run Android Apps on Linux
- 10 Truly Amusing Easter Eggs in Linux
- [Scripts for Lazy People] ssh-copy-id {id} {host}
- Hardening Ubuntu Security
- Bash tip: Extracting content from compressed files without the hassle
- Russo's Gnome15 Files Pulled From Working Install
- New Arch Linux Convert Here
- More Internet Privacy with OpenNIC - An Alternative Root DNS Provider
2014
- New Hosting Provider
- Logitech G510s Keyboard and Gnome15 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Update Ubuntu Precise to 12.04.5 with Trusty HWE
- Linux Kernel Spring Cleaning
- How Linux is Built
- Completey Remove Ubuntu One
- Getting PFSense Loaded to Watchguard Firebox x-CORE-e UTM (Part 2 - LCD)
- Getting PFSense Loaded to Watchguard Firebox x-CORE-e UTM (Part 1)
- I Void Warranties
- It's The End of The Line For Windows XP... and I feel fine!