12 Mar 2019
3 minutes read
Stress Testing CPU with dd command
htop showing CPU busy with dd One of the really interesting ways of stress testing CPUs on your system is using dd command.
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11 Mar 2019
5 minutes read
Unix Tutorial Projects: GitHub Pages With Jekyll
This past weekend I decided to finally learn how to use GitHub Pages and to publish my static website using Jekyll.
11 Mar 2019
6 minutes read
Unix Tutorial Projects: GitHub Pages With Jekyll
Jekyll 4 CMS This past weekend I decided to finally learn how to use GitHub Pages and to publish my static website using …
09 Mar 2019
4 minutes read
Book Review: Text Processing in Python
This is a review from 2012 of the book David Mertz: Text Processing in Python. It's written for a specific niche and …
08 Mar 2019
2 minutes read
Get X11 Forwarding in MacOS High Sierra
I needed to forward X11 output from one of my Linux servers recently to run virt-manager (manager for virtual machines …
07 Mar 2019
2 minutes read
Update Raspberry Pi Firmware With Rpi-Update
Raspberry Pi firmware updater: rpi-update Here are the steps I’m doing from time to time to keep my Raspberry Pi …
06 Mar 2019
2 minutes read
Docker Inspect
Docker As soon as you get familiar with listing Docker containers and starting containers or stopping containers, …
05 Mar 2019
2 minutes read
Epoch Time
Unix Epoch I’ve spoken about Unix epoch before, so this is a follow up post with the next few things about epoch …
04 Mar 2019
5 minutes read
Automatically Remove Packages in Ubuntu
It is possible that removing some packages on your Debian, Ubuntu or Mint Linux system will leave a number of software …
03 Mar 2019
3 minutes read
Unix Tutorial Projects: Centralised RSyslog
Think I have enough time writing about ongoing efforts, learnings and projects of mine here on Unix Tutorial, so it …
How to decrypt files with Ansible Vault
ansible-vault decrypt restores an encrypted file …
Just discovered the macOS footprint command
I’ve administered Linux systems for around 25 …
How to Fix Ubuntu Packages Held Back
When trying to run do-release-upgrade on an Ubuntu …
How To Resize Filesystem with resize2fs
Quick note on filesystem resize on a typical …
macOS Tahoe
macOS Tahoe is the upcoming major release of macOS …
Centralized Bash history with timestamps
BASH is my Linux shell of choice (it’s zsh on …
Inspect filesystem operations with fs_usage in macOS
hey Unless you disable SIP, most of DTrace based …