today's howtos
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How to undo a git merge – NextGenTips
In this tutorial, we will learn how to undo a merge in git.
Have you been in a position where you pushed your code production codebase without realizing you were not working on your branch. This sometimes happens if you don’t have restrictions on the production branch.
Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed mostly for developers. If you have developers from all over the world and you want to collaborate on some projects git will come to the rescue.
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How to Install MATLAB on Ubuntu 22.04 - Linux Nightly
MATLAB is a computing and programming language platform used to create and develop algorithms and analyze data. In this article, we will learn how to install MATLAB on Ubuntu 22.04.
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Install WoeUSB on Ubuntu to Create Bootable Windows USB
Want to create a bootable Windows USB on Linux? Ventoy is a pretty good option.
But before Ventoy, WoeUSB used to be the go-to tool for this purpose. The original WoeUSB project got discontinued around 2014.
Owing to its popularity, a new developer took the task of bringing the project back from the dead. And hence WoeUSB-ng was born. “ng” here stands for “new generation”. In other words, WoeUSB-ng is the new generation WoeUSB. But since the original tool doesn’t exist anymore, I’ll be referring WoeUSB-ng as WoeUSB.
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Make the DNF package manager faster and more efficient. - Darryl Dias
Here is how to speed up the DNF package manager on your Rocky, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, or any other Linux distribution that uses Dnf as its package manager.
The default configuration of DNF is not optimized for speed. We can add a few tweaks to the dnf.conf and make it faster.
The tweak we can do is to set the maximum parallel download to 20. By default, it is set to 3.
To do this, we need to edit the dnf.conf file. Let’s use nano and edit the file.
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How to Install DeaDBeeF Player on Manjaro Linux
DeaDBeeF is a music player for Linux, Android, and other UNIX-like operating systems. Released under the GNU General Public License, it is free software anyone can download and use. DeaDBeeF has many features that make it an excellent choice for music playback on Linux, as it supports various audio formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and WAV. The following tutorial will show you how to install the player on Manjaro using the Arch Linux user repository.
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Stealth Scans With Nmap
This tutorial describes different techniques to execute stealth scans with Nmap.
Stealth scan techniques are implemented to bypass firewalls or discover hosts alive while remaining undetected.
Nmap offers a variety of flags and options to execute different stealth scan types, most of which are explained in this article. They are easy to implement and constitute a nice learning process on IP packets.
After reading this content, the reader will enjoy a better understanding of network packets and communications while acquiring deep practical knowledge on stealth scans with Nmap.
All instructions in this tutorial contain screenshots, making it easy for all readers to understand how they are executed and their outputs or results.
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Nmap Xmas Scan
This tutorial explains how to execute the Xmas stealth scan technique using Nmap.
Nmap Xmas scan was considered a stealthy scan that analyzes responses to Xmas packets to determine the nature of the replying device.
Each operating system or network device replies in a different way to Xmas packets revealing local information, such as OS (Operating System), port state, and more.
Currently, many firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems can detect Xmas packets, and it is not the best technique to carry out a stealth scan. Yet it is extremely useful to understand how it works.
After reading this tutorial, the user will understand how Xmas, NULL, and FIN scans work. All instructions below contain screenshots, making it easy for readers to understand how Nmap commands are executed.
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How To Install WineHQ on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WineHQ on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a program that can be used to run Windows software on Linux. If you want to use graphical Microsoft Windows applications on your AlmaLinux system, you can install Wine.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Tor Browser on AlmaLinux 9. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux or RHEL-based.