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ID Root ☛ How To Install Cacti on Fedora 43
Cacti is a powerful open-source network monitoring and graphing tool that provides comprehensive infrastructure visibility through intuitive graphs and dashboards. Built as a complete frontend to RRDTool, Cacti excels at collecting and visualizing time-series data from servers, switches, routers, and other network devices using SNMP protocols.
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TecMint ☛ How to Setup an L2TP/IPsec VPN Client on Linux
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TecMint ☛ How to Setup Your Own IPsec/L2TP VPN Server in Linux
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ID Root ☛ How To Install Fwupd on Fedora 43
Keeping your system firmware up to date is just as critical as updating your operating system and applications. Firmware updates patch security vulnerabilities, improve hardware stability, enhance device performance, and fix compatibility issues that can affect your entire computing experience.
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Ruben Schade ☛ Finding (digital) houndstooth
The background of my new theme has a repeating houndstooth pattern. I mentioned it’s my favourite tesselating pattern, but left it at that. Today I’m explaining why it’s my favourite, from its brilliantly clever design, to where I first experienced it.
(Or so I thought this would be about. Turns out this took me down a rabbit hole I wasn’t expecting).
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Filippo Valsorda ☛ Building a Transparent Keyserver
Today, we are going to build a keyserver to lookup age public keys. That part is boring. What’s interesting is that we’ll apply the same transparency log technology as the Go Checksum Database to keep the keyserver operator honest and unable to surreptitiously inject malicious keys, while still protecting user privacy and delivering a smooth UX. You can see the final result at keyserver.geomys.org. We’ll build it step-by-step, using modern tooling from the tlog ecosystem, integrating transparency in less than 500 lines.
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Markup from Hell ☛ Semantics beyond the tag name - HTMHell
To actually write semantic HTML, we need to know what elements mean beyond just what we infer from their tag names and how to use them. So, how do we find that out?
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Brad Taunt ☛ Hyperlinks Should Have Context
Let’s try that again but in a more natural, sentence based structure: [...]