Tag: your

A Shell Primer: Master Your Linux, OS X, Unix Shell Environment

On a Linux or Unix-like systems, each user and process run in a specific environment. An environment includes variables, settings, aliases, functions and more. Following is a very brief introduction to some useful shell environment commands, including examples of how to use each command and setup your environment to increase productivity in the command prompt. […]

Dating a sysadmin: What’s your idea of a perfect date?

She: What’s your idea of a perfect date? Me: Unix epoch time Dating a sysadmin or programmer You may like these articles: Securing your VPS How well can your website handle seasonal spikes? Setting up Moodle on your Ubuntu server Secure Your Linux Desktop and SSH Login Using Two Factor Google Authenticator Unixstickers Review: Add […]

It is not UNIX’s job to stop you from shooting your foot. If you so choose to do so, then it is UNIX’s job to deliver Mr. Bullet to Mr Foot in the most efficient way it knows.

Here is Terry Lambert quote for you. It is not UNIX’s job to stop you from shooting your foot. If you sochoose to do so, then it is UNIX’s job to deliver Mr. Bullet to Mr Footin the most efficient way it knows. Do you agree with it? You may like these articles: Securing your […]

Patch your FreeBSD server for openssh vulnerabilities [11/Jan/2017]

OpenSSH is critical for both sysadmin and programmers. It is an implementation of the SSH protocol suite, from OpenBSD project. It provides an encrypted session to your server. OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities OpenSSH has multiple vulnerabilities as of 11th January 2017 running on FreeBSD operating system. From the advisory: The ssh-agent(1) agent supports loading a PKCS#11 […]

Unixstickers Review: Add Beautiful Linux/FreeBSD Stickers To Your Laptop

The Linux-powered device is beautiful on its own but with billions of Linux-powered devices out there it is not particularly unique. You can add stickers to your Linux powered desktop, router, and Laptop to stand out from the crowd with stickers and more. In this post I will be quickly reviewing Unixstickers.com, they claim to […]

How well can your website handle seasonal spikes?

That is a question you should always have in mind as you create a website that represents your online business. Particularly if you own an ecommerce website, one of your top priorities should be to prepare it for seasonal / holiday spikes. You don’t want it crashing during the busiest and of course most profitable […]

Installing and configuring Zimbra on your VPS

Zimbra, commonly known as Zimbra Collaboration Suite or ZCS is a collaborative software suite that consists of an email server and web client. It was first released 11 years ago, on July 11th 2005, by LiquidSys, which changed their name to Zimbra, Inc. There are two main versions of Zimbra currently available: an open-source version, […]