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Compiling Software From Source Code

Basics Of Compiling Software From Source Code In Linux Members Public

From time to time, you may want or need to compile a software/program from the source code. This involves compiling C or C++ code into something we can execute in Linux. Depending on the software you wish to compile, it’s often unnecessary to do so. This is because

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Setting Up LVM Partition On Linux Server

Setting Up LVM Partition On Linux Server Members Public

Think about this situation, you have a Ubuntu server and with your home videos or movies, books and other important files that are worth having a backup. You don’t have enough space on your laptop and also on your server the available space is almost gone. You go to

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Complete Setup Tutorial For Lighttpd A Lightweight Web Server

Complete Setup Tutorial For Lighttpd, A Lightweight Web Server Members Public

There is a web server that is very conservative in its resource usage and memory footprint. That server is known as lighttpd (pronounced ‘lighty’). Setting one lighttpd instance can be a bit tricky, so this tutorial serves as a clear guide on how to properly configure a lighttpd server on

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Record Terminal Activity For Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server

Record Terminal Activity For Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server Members Public

At times system administrators and developers need to use many, complex and lengthy commands in order to perform a critical task. Most of the users will copy those commands and output generated by those respective commands in a text file for review or future reference. Of course, the “history” feature

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Creating Virtual Disks Using Linux Command Line

Creating Virtual Disks Using Linux Command Line Members Public

Linux is indeed a great system with excellent tools at our disposal. There are lots of things that can be achieved using the terminal. One such activity is creating virtual hard drives. Your Linux system should already have the tools required to do this without the need for virtual machine

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make good use of grep command line

How To Make Good Use Of 'grep' Command Members Public

Linux and UNIX systems come with a shell command known as ‘grep’. This simply looks for a specified text, or pattern, in a file or an entire directory. The most common usage is for quickly searching a file for occurrences of a pattern, which can be in plain text, or

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how to learn a programming language

How To Start Learning A Programming Language Members Public

Have you ever wonder how everything works? From Smartphones Operating Systems to even each and every Linux Distro and every Operating System created by Microsoft and Apple.  How does it play my favorite music? How does it save my files to the cloud? How does actually everything work? All these

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Store Files In An Encrypted Image

Store Files In An Encrypted Image Members Public

Imagine this scenario: you have files on your computer that you would much rather keep safe. Such files could contain sensitive data such as passwords and bank details. Keeping them on your computer is a convenient solution; however, if your computer was hacked or stolen, someone could easily access your

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