Articles tagged with "sysadmin"

• Install VMWare Workstation 17.6.0 modules with fixes, on Linux

  11 Sep 2024

• Upgrading the Bluetooth (Bluez) stack on Ubuntu

  13 Mar 2024

• Tiny: Grepping a program's output while still displaying the progress

  24 Oct 2023

• Installing Ubuntu (22.04) on a mirrored (RAID-1) and encrypted btrfs root filesystem

  23 Dec 2022

• Enabling the S3 sleep state (suspend-to-RAM) on the Lenovo Yoga 7 AMD Gen 7 (and possibly, others)

  06 Dec 2022

• A precise guide to building a custom Linux kernel

  09 Aug 2022

• Unexpected things users will find when moving from metal to the cloud (AWS)

  27 Jul 2022

• Improving the Github Actions caching effectiveness

  22 Jul 2022

• Generically padding strings in shell scripts

  24 Dec 2021

• Compiling the CVE-2021-22555 exploit Proof of concept

  15 Jul 2021

• Conveniently handling non-master development/default branches in Git(/Hub)

  07 Jun 2021

• Announcement: New ZFS installer release

  29 Apr 2021

• Quick RISC-V cross compilation and emulation

  11 Jan 2021

• Linux: Associating file types to applications

  06 Jan 2021

• Cleaning email subject prefixes via regular expressions

  20 Nov 2020

• Chef: Properly run a resource with alternate credentials (user/group)

  02 Nov 2020

• Monitoring the CPU steal time on AWS EC2 instances

  20 Oct 2020

• Learn to prepare PPA packages, by setting up a Ruby PPA

  26 May 2020

• Announcement: Ticketsolve's Ruby PPA is available

  26 May 2020

• Additional shell options for non-trivial (Bash) shell scripts

  13 May 2020

• Running shell commands in parallel, via GNU Parallel

  02 Mar 2020

• PreFOSDEM talk: Upgrading from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0

  23 Feb 2020

• Handling the apt lock on Ubuntu Server installations (the infamous "Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock")

  18 Feb 2020

• Announcement: ZFS Ubuntu installer

  11 Oct 2019

• Debugging a live/stuck Ruby process with GDB, fully explained, plus many goodies!

  11 Sep 2019

• Processing key/values tuples in text files with Perl (how to enable unattended upgrades for PPAs)

  07 Sep 2019

• Installing Ubuntu on a ZFS root, with encryption and mirroring

  18 Aug 2019

• Text processing experiments for finding the MySQL configuration files

  12 Jun 2019

• Using a persistent live Ubuntu USB flash drive in VirtualBox

  03 Jun 2019

• Files listing experiments: `find` vs. `ls`

  27 Mar 2019

• An in depth DBA's guide to migrating a MySQL database from the `utf8` to the `utf8mb4` charset

  25 Mar 2019

• Remotely wiping the disk(s) of a headless linux server

  29 May 2018

• Building a Debian (`.deb`) source package, and publishing it on an Ubuntu PPA

  03 May 2018

• Remotely running asynchronous commands/scripts via GNU Screen

  24 Mar 2018

• Quickly setting up PostgreSQL for running without admin permissions

  15 Feb 2018

• Executing and killing ruby parallel/background jobs

  02 Jan 2018

• Shell scripting adventures (Part 3, Terminal-based dialog boxes: Whiptail)

  23 Dec 2017

• Shell scripting adventures (Part 2, Text processing extravaganza)

  22 Nov 2017

• Shell scripting adventures (Part 1, Bash general functionalities)

  08 Nov 2017

• Shell scripting adventures (Introduction)

  02 Nov 2017

• Installing MySQL 5.7.19 on Ubuntu 14.04

  13 Sep 2017