Category: Linux

As I was going through my Xbox Game Pass today looking for something to play, I noticed Quake. Now we all know it’s an old game first released mid to…

We have been testing some various chat sub-systems, clients, servers as well as WordPress native chat sub-systems and have settled on one for the moment for our https://azure.zettabytes.org blog and…

You’re going to like this one. So do you just want the damn command so you can move on without having to read more than this sentence? M’Kay, here ya…

The version of Ubuntu that I use is 20.04 LTS however most of these instructions will pertain to just about all Ubuntu Linux versions. Yes, there are thousands of these…

So you wanna install MySQL server on your Ubuntu Linux 20.04 box right? No problem, another super duper easy install: apt install mysql-server That will install the latest version in the Ubuntu repositories, that being 8.0.2. IIRC…

Reprinted from https://linux.linuxconnector.com, another one of my sites. One of the computers I have on my desk is an older MacBook Pro. To be specific, it’s a 2011 MacBook Pro…

Let me spell out the problem real quick. So your on your Linux box and you’ve been coding for years in Perl and now you need to interact with some obscure piece…

If you read my article about fortune, I mention cowsay and lolcat towards the end of that article. I decided to write another article that expands on cowsay and lolcat…

"You are WRONG, you ol' brass-breasted fascist poop!" -- Bloom County (fortune) fortune is a little program that I install on just about every single Unix/Linux box I administrate. It’s…

In day to day administration we as system administrators have literally thousands of commands to choose from to keep our servers running in tip top condition. I’ve seen top 10…