today's howtos and technical posts
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Cliff L Biffle ☛ Planning to redirect traffic to HTTPS
It’s been just about four years since I finally got HTTPS and HTTP/2 working for this site. During that time, I’ve seen most incoming traffic from humans transition over to encrypted connections. (HTTP/2 connections are also significantly faster for both my server, and your user experience, than earlier editions.)
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Wouter Groeneveld ☛ Network Intrusion Detection Through Packet Image Classifications
We humans are gifted with the ability to quickly spot visual patterns. That’s exactly what a convolutional neural network does to segment and classify images: you feed it an image, and it’ll say it’s a car, a dog, or a tree, with a surprisingly high accuracy, given the initial training set is big enough. That works because cars, dogs, and trees all look alike. Our daughter is nine months, but will soon too learn that our cats look a lot like the cat of our neighbor.
But how can we apply that to network packets? Simple: if you map a packet to a pixelated version, you’ll immediately see that they too show striking visual resemblances. For example, take a look at the visualization analysis of Wang’s team of different network-related sessions, from mail checking using outlook to World of Warcraft gaming or FTP server browsing: [...]
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HowTo Forge ☛ How to Install Cockpit Web Console on Debian 12
Cockpit is a web-based Linux administration tool that allows you to manage multiple Linux servers from a single dashboard, especially for day-to-day operations. The Cockpit project mainly backed by RedHat provides a user-friendly interface that is good for people with less experience in a Linux environment.
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Medium ☛ How To Deploy & Self-Host Your Own Blog w/ NGINX.
If you have been considering creating your own personal website, like a personal blog or a documentation site, this is the guide for you. In this guide, I will be creating an IT documentation website. A place for you to save and share your projects and learning.
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XDA ☛ How to install Ubuntu on your Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi lineup consists of incredible little devices capable of running fully-functional operating systems. In my review of the latest iteration of the palm-sized ARM computer (pun intended), I praised the official Raspberry Pi OS for being optimized enough to power almost all my computing needs except gaming. That said, there’s no reason to stick with just one OS: one of the biggest advantages of using a Raspberry Pi is that you can switch between different operating systems by just swapping your microSD cards.
So, if you’ve grown tired of Raspberry Pi OS, you can spice things up by installing Ubuntu on another microSD card. To help you with that, we've created a step-by-step guide that goes over everything you need to know to install the most popular Linux distribution on your Raspberry Pi.
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Mastering the ‘cd’ Command: Tips and Tricks for Efficient Directory Navigation
Navigating through directories is a fundamental aspect of working in a command-line interface, and the ‘cd’ command plays a crucial role in this process. In this blog post, we’ll explore various tips and tricks to enhance your efficiency when using the ‘cd’ command. If no path is provided, ‘cd’ takes you to the home directory.
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Mastering the Linux CLI: Unleashing the Power of Commands [Ed: Some revisionism in there, pretending GNU/Linux as UNIX clone was created in 1991 and not in 1983/4]
Today, over 47% of developers prefer Linux, and it runs on a staggering 49% of the top 100,000 websites and 40% of all websites.
In this comprehensive blog post, we will explore the essence of Linux, focusing on its command line interface (CLI) – a powerful and efficient tool that sets Linux apart.
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The Anarcat ☛ Last year on this blog
2022 was the official 20th anniversary in any case, and that was one of my best years on record, with 46 posts, surpassed only by the noisy 2005 (62) and matching 2006 (46). 2023, in comparison, was underwhelming: a feeble 11 posts! What happened!
Well, I was busy with other things, mostly away from keyboard, that I will not bore you with here...
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OSTechNix ☛ How To Change Bash Prompt For Specific User Group In Linux
We already looked at how to customize the default BASH prompt in Linux. In this tutorial, we will learn how to change the Bash prompt for specific user group in Linux and Unix-like systems.