today's howtos
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A nifty push notification system: ntfy
Ever since thinking “that’s quite nifty”, I have the devil of a time spelling ntfy without transposing the ‘t’ and the ‘f’, but it’s called notify so the ‘t’ comes before the ‘f’. :-)
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More Untappd data explorations with jq - my top ranking beer types (part 1)
I've been exploring my Untappd data a bit more since analysing my top brewery countries, this time to see if my average ratings indicated anything about my preferred beer types. Here's what I've done so far, in part 1 of this little series.
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How to Install LOMP Stack on Ubuntu
Are you looking for a complete LAMP stack guide? This tutorial will show you how to install a LEMP stack on an Ubuntu 22.04 server.
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How To Install Snort on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Snort on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Snort is an open-source, free and lightweight network intrusion detection system (NIDS) software for Linux and Windows operating system to detect emerging threats. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to syslog, a separate “alert” file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba.
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 Snort network intrusion detection system on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.
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How to set up an Nginx Server with the Google Cloud Platform – NextGenTips
Have you encountered a problem where you want to host a simple web server but you don’t know how to go about it, here is a very simple solution to host a simple web server on Google cloud using the free tier.
In this tutorial, I will take you through the setting up of a server on Google cloud and later install Nginx. From here you can run a simple hello world.
Here I am using a free tier. Make sure you destroy your instance when you are done experimenting to avoid incurring extra charges.
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How to Delete Partition in Linux Step-by-Step
Sometimes, you might want to delete some disk partitions on your Linux system to recover or regain some storage space. You can easily accomplish this on the command line with a few simple steps.
In this guide, we will demonstrate how you can delete a partition in Linux step-by-step. We will start off by deleting a standard partition and then deleting an LVM partition.
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How to Install Wine on Arch Linux
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How to use the nohup command in Linux
In general, the nohup command allows you to run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-type.
What does this mean? It allows you to keep the execution of a command independent of the terminal session. Making it continue to run despite closing the terminal.
As you can notice, the nohup command is quite useful in situations of configurations that we want to be done in the background and without affecting the user’s work.
Being a bit more technical, the nohup command ignores the HUP signal, which is the one sent to the process when the controlling terminal is closed, making it still alive.
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Install Python PIP Debian 11
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How to install Psych Engine 0.6.3 on a Chromebook
Today we are looking at how to install Psych Engine 0.6.3 on a Chromebook.
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