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how to mount usb drive in linux

How To Mount USB Drive In Linux Members Public

Mounting a USB drive is easy these days on most Linux distros. But you may encounter some weird quirky distros that demand your terminal knowledge for mounting a USB drive successfully without it doing the work for you. For instance, if you’ve tried installing a Linux server or Slackware

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Rclone Rsync alternative to sync file with online cloud storage

Rclone - An Rsync Alternative To Sync File With Online Cloud Storage Members Public

Backup and Sync are have become essential today and this brings tools like rsync. Rsync is an amazing tool to sync files between 2 computers. But wouldn’t it be cooler if we could sync files from a computer to cloud storage. This is where rclone – a mod of rsync

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How to Find PID and Kill a Process in Linux

How to Find PID and Kill a Process in Linux: A Step by Step Guide Members Public

There comes a time where you need to find information about a certain process, often to find out what its ID is to parse to the ‘kill’ command. However, it need not necessarily be for that, of course. In this article we will learn how to find a process id

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Top Linux Applications For Office Use

Top Linux Applications For Office Use Members Public

The next time you encounter a laptop or PC, pay attention to the operating system. Most likely it is not open source because closed-source platforms such as Windows and macOS have captured most of the PC client OS market.   Open source OS programs such as Linux, make up only a

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GNOME Pomodoro A Time Utility Tool That Increases Productivity

GNOME Pomodoro: A Time Utility Tool That Increases Productivity Members Public

Hello readers, today I’ll be covering on how to increase your productivity and this applies to all types of computer users, especially Linux, just kidding. 😛 Believe me most of us who work on computers have suffered back pain, eye strain, stress, and then end up getting frustrated. However, did

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Linux Network Management with

Linux Network Management with "netstat" Members Public

The netstat (short for network statistics) command line tool helps in retrieving information such as network connections, network interfaces in use, routing tables, masquerade connections.  It lists out all the TCP, UDP socket connections, and the UNIX socket connections. The common test case that almost everybody encounters to see whether

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Overview Of tcpdump With Examples

Overview Of tcpdump With Examples Members Public

You can view information about traffic coming and going from a given network interface using tcpdump. This diagnostic tool allows you to see packet information, that is where incoming packets come from and where outgoing packets are heading to on an interface, with some extra information. You can even save

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Save Some Battery On Our Linux Machines With TLP

Save Some Battery On Our Linux Machines With TLP Members Public

I have always found battery life with Linux to be relatively lesser than windows. Nevertheless, this is Linux and we always have something up our sleeves. Now talking about this small utility called TLP, that can actually save some juice on your device. TLP – Linux Advanced Power Management is a

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