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Linux Tutorials Jun 18, 2019 3 min read

How To Install & Setup Nagios Core On Raspberry PI

Have you ever thought about how some of the World’s biggest companies monitor hundreds of devices? If not, then do it now because, in this tutorial, I am going to introduce you to Nagios. Nagios is a monitoring solution that can monitor a few devices in your house or hundreds of devices, services, network protocols in a multi-billion company. First of all, why do we need Nagios or any monitoring tool at all? It should not be difficult to understand why we need a monitoring tool. A m

MySQL series Jun 14, 2019 3 min read

Create New MySQL User With Password And Grant Permissions

MySQL databases handle all the data for websites and apps. Security is of extreme importance when it comes to handling data. So far we have been using the root user for everything. But in real websites, the root user is never used as it has access to all databases. This means that if the root user is compromised, it could result in damage to all databases. So for the security purposes, we should create a new user with password in MySQL. Also Read Import & Export databases

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Linux May 4, 2019 2 min read

Set Background Wallpapers In Linux With Fondo

Fondo is a desktop wallpaper app for Linux where you can search for the most beautiful wallpapers on the Internet from within the app itself and set your preferred image as your desktop wallpaper by just clicking on the image directly. The app is simple and easy to use. Install Fondo Wallpaper app in Linux Fondo is available as flatpak app so if you have flatpak set up on your Software center then you can directly search for the app and install it. For terminal-geeks, you can alte

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Hacking with Kali Linux Apr 29, 2019 2 min read

Install Kali Linux (VirtualBox) - The Quickest Way

Welcome to the first part of our series Hacking with Kali Linux. In this article, we’ll learn how to install Kali Linux on various devices including, Virtualbox on Kali Linux and Android. Kali Linux is the complete package for pen-testers. It’s free and open-source so you can just download it and follow these instructions to install Kali on your devices. For this series, I will use Kali Linux as a host operating system and Windows as a guest operating system. You can also use two di

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Linux Tutorials Apr 11, 2019 2 min read

How To Install Virtualbox In Arch Linux

In this guide, I will show you how to install VirtualBox in Arch Linux. Numerous aspects of this guide can also apply to any other Linux distribution. Since Arch Linux is the target platform, we will need to install certain dependencies if they’re not there already. * Install Virtualbox in Arch Linux * Download Virtualbox * Make Virtualbox file executable * Installing Dependencies Chances are you already know what VirtualBox is. If not, it is a program from Oracle

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Reviews Apr 5, 2019 3 min read

How I Started Using Linux

It is April 2019 as I am writing this article from my Ubuntu 18.04 and I don’t remember the last time I had to use Windows for something that Linux couldn’t do. I don’t remember the last time I opened the thing called Ubuntu Software Store since I just use apt for most system-related package management. I also actively avoid using gedit in favor of nano for editing configuration files. But things haven’t always been the way they are now for me. Initially, I was scared of Linux.

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Linux Tutorials Mar 29, 2019 2 min read

Ways To Develop Windows Apps On Linux

Have you ever had the desire to develop Windows software or test it on your Linux system? Maybe because it is the most popular OS or due to the fact that your schools and institutions deploy only Windows OS in computer laboratories. Well lucky you, there are two ways to actually develop or test Windows software on Linux system with the exception of dual booting (otherwise the article would have diverted away from the topic’s intention) Windows OS along with your existing system. Read on

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Linux Tutorials Mar 26, 2019 2 min read

Ways To Get Quick Access To Custom Apps On GNOME Desktop

Have you ever loaded a custom application from the Internet and encountered the following issue: having to launch your terminal application and enter the command to run that executable file? I’d done it several times before realising there are two ways to efficiently launch my custom installed applications on GNOME. Using the terminal isn’t all that bad, but it’s tedious typing and retyping the same keystrokes every time you reboot. Continue reading to find out what they are and how you

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Programming Mar 11, 2019 4 min read

Ways To Get More Productive On Netbeans Development Platform

Netbeans is a cool Java integrated development environment packed with lots of features along with the capability of extending its functions by adding more plugins. However, there are some of the tools or features in the IDE we rarely use while coding our Java program. This article will provide some tips and tricks for getting more productive on Netbeans. By doing a task more efficiently and getting more from the IDE when in doubt before turning in to the search engines. Tab expansion

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MySQL series Feb 27, 2019 2 min read

Import & Export Databases In MySQL Ubuntu CLI - Part 5

In this article of MySQL series, we’ll learn to import & export DBs. When you work with SQL, you will often be taking a backup of your databases. You will also be importing previously taken backups. All of this is an integral part of learning MySQL. Exporting a Database We first need a database that can be exported. You can see in the image below that I have a database named theitstuff. We will be exporting it here. To export the database we need to open our command line and ty

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Linux Tutorials Feb 25, 2019 3 min read

Install Dropbox To Share Files Between Linux And Windows

Today we will see how to install Dropbox to be able to use it without any type of problem in dual boot systems. There are many users who have a dual boot with windows and one of the many existing Linux distros. To be able to access Dropbox content in both Linux and windows without having to duplicate the content, we have to install Dropbox in the following way: STEP 1. Mount the NTFS or FAT partition properly so that Dropbox works on both Windows and Linux 1. The location of the D

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Linux Tutorials Feb 19, 2019 4 min read

How To Automatically Change GNOME Background In Intervals Using BASH

Have you ever wanted to have that automatic background switching the feature on your GNOME Linux distro? I missed that feature after I switched from Cinnamon to GNOME 🙁 Searched for apps in the software center and alas there is none that I could find. However, today Iâm happy to let you know that there is a workaround to this missing feature through the use of BASH scripting language. Requirement Not much, all you need is a text editor to edit some lines of code on the script fi

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