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What’s New in Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark”, Available Now

After quite a few unexciting releases, Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark” is full of huge changes. Ubuntu Phone is dead, and so is Ubuntu’s dream of a converged desktop. Ubuntu’s developers are no longer working on Unity 8, and U…

Chris Hoffman Oct 19th, 2017

Why Does ~ Represent the Home Folder on macOS and Linux?

Whether you’ve installed the Linux subsystem on Windows 10 or are getting started using the Linux Terminal, there are all kinds of shorthands you need to learn…none of which are intuitive.

Justin Pot Oct 17th, 2017

How to Create a Bootable USB Installer for macOS High Sierra

The Mac App Store is the default way to upgrade or install macOS, but it doesn’t work for everyone. Maybe you’ve got multiple Macs and a limited amount of bandwidth, and don’t want to download the entire operating system for …

Justin Pot Sep 27th, 2017

Stupid Geek Tricks: Convince Your Friends You’re a Hollywood-Style Hacker with These Tools

Hacking in the movies is crazy exciting: fingers fly across the keyboard, and the screen is an ever flashing array of cryptic characters. It’s all so…interesting. Real hacking, sadly, isn’t that intense. However illegal wha…

Justin Pot Sep 15th, 2017

How to Check a Video’s Bitrate In VLC

A video’s bitrate is a key piece of information in determining the quality of said video. Even if two videos have the same resolution, a lower bitrate is going to result in less detail and clarity. Here’s how to see the b…

Eric Ravenscraft Sep 13th, 2017

How to Fix Windows and Linux Showing Different Times When Dual Booting

Your computer stores the time in a hardware clock on its motherboard. The clock keeps track of time, even when the computer is off. By default, Windows assumes the time is stored in local time, while Linux assumes the time is…

Chris Hoffman Sep 12th, 2017

Four Simple Timers That Remind You to Take Breaks from Your Computer

Whether you work at your computer or just enjoy the occasional long gaming session, it’s important to take breaks regularly. Getting up to take a walk, grab a coffee, or do some stretches helps reduce eye strain, prevent repe…

Justin Pot Sep 9th, 2017

Instantly Search Your Terminal History With a Keyboard Shortcut

Everyone who regularly uses the command line has at least one long string they type regularly. Instead of entering all that again and again, quickly search your history to find the complete command.

Justin Pot Sep 7th, 2017

tldr Converts man Pages Into Concise, Plain-English Explanations

Command line users know to how read the manual: type “man” followed by the name of a command—you’ll see a detailed explanation. These manuals are useful but verbose, using hundreds of words to explain every detail of a comm…

Justin Pot Sep 6th, 2017

How to List or Search for Files in a .tar / .tar.gz Archive

If you have a huge tar backup file and you need to grab some files out of it, wouldn’t it be easier if you can look inside first? Luckily there’s an easy option to do so.

Lowell Heddings Aug 4th, 2017

How to Extract a Single File from a .tar / .tar.gz Archive

If you’ve ever run into a scenario where you have a huge tar backup file but you only need to extract a single file, you’re reading the right article today. Why bother extracting the whole thing just to grab that one file?…

Lowell Heddings Aug 3rd, 2017

How to Turn on Line Numbers in vim

Vim is an extremely powerful editor, but only if you know how to use it. When you first start out, it’s like getting dumped into Minecraft survival mode — you’re gonna have to punch some trees.

Lowell Heddings Jul 31st, 2017

How to Backup a Live MySQL DB Without Locking Tables Using mysqldump

Backing up MySQL is not very hard — you just run mysqldump and output to a file — but it’s also not really designed for production environments either.

Lowell Heddings Jul 28th, 2017

How to Exclude Tables from MySQL Exports Using mysqldump

While setting up a new testing environment to help development make slightly less bugs, I was looking at how to transfer the database without restoring a bunch of archive tables that we really didn’t need on QA….

Lowell Heddings Jul 27th, 2017

How to Backup / Export a Single Table from a MySQL Database

The other day I was testing a feature on my development box when I realized my local data was really out of date, and if I was going to get anywhere with my testing, I needed some recent data from production. The problem is t…

Lowell Heddings Jul 26th, 2017

How to See Which MySQL Tables are Taking the Most Space

Database backups are one of those things that just keep getting bigger and bigger until they consume all the matter in the world. Unlike reality TV, you can easily delete stuff in a database to make your backups smaller. But …

Lowell Heddings Jul 25th, 2017

How to Test Your Nginx Config File (and Why You Should)

If you’re making changes to your nginx configuration files, you are running a huge risk if you restart nginx and you made a mistake, a typo, or copied and pasted from Stackoverflow wrong. Luckily there’s an easy built-in way …

Lowell Heddings Jul 24th, 2017

How to Find or Delete Files Less Than X Minutes Old on Linux

Say you just ran some script that was supposed to move files around or download stuff, or anything else that involves files, and then you realize that you need to figure out what files just got created and where. And maybe yo…

Lowell Heddings Jul 23rd, 2017

How to Time a How Long a Terminal Command Takes

If you have a long running script that you are working on improving, it can be useful to figure out exactly how long the script or command takes to run so you’ll know for sure whether the next run was faster or slower than th…

Lowell Heddings Jul 22nd, 2017

How to Run a Cron Job Only on Sunday (or Any Other Day)

I needed to setup a cron job to perform some maintenance which I wanted to automatically run on Sunday night since that’s usually a low traffic period. After looking up the right syntax in the manual for the eleventy-hundredt…

Lowell Heddings Jul 21st, 2017

The Best Linux Distributions for Beginners

If you want to try Linux, you’ll need to choose a Linux distribution. There are hundreds of different distributions, but some are better to start with than others. These are the best Linux distributions that we recommend for …

Chris Hoffman Jul 2nd, 2017

How to See What Configure Options PHP Was Compiled With

PHP in the repositories comes with tons of modules that aren’t needed, and we’ve always custom-compiled our own version with only the things that we need. But when you’re switching from one server to another, or you want to c…

Lowell Heddings Jun 27th, 2017

How to Replace a String With a MySQL Query

This is a really stupid article, and the only reason I’m writing it is in the hopes that I’ll finally stop forgetting the syntax and having to google which order the MySQL REPLACE function’s arguments are supposed to go. And …

Lowell Heddings Jun 26th, 2017

How to See Nginx Version and Configure Arguments

While working on setting up a new QA environment, I realized that I needed to make sure the version and exact configuration matched our development environment. So how do you check that?

Lowell Heddings Jun 13th, 2017

How to Fix “client intended to send too large body” in Nginx

If you’re getting the obnoxious “client intended to send too large body” error like I am, you’re in luck because today we’re going to solve the article. In fact, I’m writing this paragraph before I’ve even solved the error in…

Lowell Heddings May 26th, 2017

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