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Uncategorized Apr 24, 2018 4 min read

Using History Feature On Bash Shell On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server

The Bash (Bourne again shell) is a popular shell used on most UNIX-like systems. Bash is written by Brian Fox as GNU Project. It incorporates features from Bourne shell, C shell, and Korn shell. Users who spend their time on the command line using bash shell often will like to repeat the commands that were executed in the past. The Bash shell history feature help in remembering recent commands and reuse them later; thus saving time to retype. Let’s get started! Listing History W

Linux Tutorials Apr 23, 2018 2 min read

Record Terminal Activity For Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server

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 of the shell will help you in getting the list of commands used in the past but it won’t help in getting the output generated for those commands. Luckily there exists a simple and time-savi

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Themes Mar 4, 2018 1 min read

Make Linux Look Like OSX With OSX Arc Collection

Description: Arc-OSX-Icons has been released. It’s an icon theme to integrate seamlessly with the OSX-Arc theme collection it comes in two variants for the light & dark variants of the OSX-Arc theme collection, see my Github page for more details. Credit – LINXGEM33 Installation Instructions – How to Install this theme? License – GPLv3

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Themes Mar 4, 2018 1 min read

Plataro Master Icon Theme Install In Ubuntu 16.04

* * Description: The Plataro SVG icon set consists of flat and colorful icons intended for use under KDE and LXQt. Plataro was made based on FaenzaFlattr, when the latter disappeared from Internet, but many of its icons are made based on nouveKDEGray, Oxygen and GNOME’s default icon set, with emphasis on clarity, colorfulness, and flatness. Credit – TSUJAN Installation Instructions – How to Install this theme? License – Download

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Setup web server Mar 2, 2018 5 min read

Web Server Setup Series - Setup Domain Name To Point To CWP Server

Welcome to the third part of web server setup series. In the last article, I fixed all the errors and warnings of CWP. We’re now ready to point a domain to our server. In this article, we’ll setup our domain name to point to our hosting and then host a WordPress website. So let’s get started! For this article, I have setup a new user account ‘sohail’ and assigned it 1000MB storage, 2 email accounts, 2 FTP accounts, 2 databases, and 2 addon domains. Connect Domain Name To CWP We

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Linux Tutorials Feb 19, 2018 4 min read

How To Make Good Use Of 'grep' Command

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 in the form of a regular expression. Here, the patterns used will be simple text rather than regular expressions. This article will show you how to use grep when searching through text files for one or more patterns. How to

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Setup web server Feb 13, 2018 2 min read

Web Server Setup Series - How To Setup And Manage Your Own Web Server

Today I am starting a web server setup series. In this series of articles, I’ll teach you how you can setup a web server or turn your own computer into a web server. I’ll also teach you how you can manage your web server, increase server security and guard it against specific types of attacks. I published an article in 2016 in which I talked about turning a personal computer or laptop into a web server. It worked for almost all and so many people appreciated it. But that was just for fun

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Linux Tutorials Feb 11, 2018 4 min read

How To Start Learning A Programming Language

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 questions are answered with one big bolded and all capital “PROGRAMMING”.So, you might be asking yourself, “yeah I know programming runs all but, how should I start and from where?” In this article

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Linux tools Feb 6, 2018 2 min read

Save Some Battery On Our Linux Machines With TLP

I have always found battery life with Linux to be relatively lesser than windows. Nevertheless, this is Linux and we always have something up our sleeves. Now talking about this small utility called TLP, that can actually save some juice on your device. TLP – Linux Advanced Power Management is a small command-line utility that can genuinely help extend battery life by performing several tweaks on your Linux system. $ sudo apt install tlp For other distributions, you can read th

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Linux Tutorials Feb 5, 2018 4 min read

Store Files In An Encrypted Image

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 files if your drive wasn’t encrypted. Passwords to unlock your PC are no object to someone who knows what they are doing, especially passwords that are ridiculously weak. There is a way

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Linux Tutorials Jan 21, 2018 5 min read

How To Install Themes Or Icons In Elementary OS

After installing Elementary OS, you may feel that you want to customize it to look more than the Out-of-the-box system, and more of a personalized Operating system per se. It’s very easy to install themes and icons for your Elementary OS. The process is pretty much the same as installing icons and themes in any ubuntu system since it is built upon Ubuntu. The two ways include: 1. Using PPAs and packages to install the theme and icons. 2. Manually installing themes on your system.

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Linux Tutorials Jan 21, 2018 3 min read

How To Create Virtual Hosts On Apache Server To Host Multiple Websites

If you have apache installed, you probably know what localhost is. Localhost allows a single website to be hosted locally. However, when using virtual hosts, you can host multiple websites on a single server. The process is fairly simple and I will demonstrate it here itself. I am assuming you are running Ubuntu with the apache server. Step 1 Move to the directory called /etc/apache2/sites-available You will see a file called 000-default.conf, we need to copy that file to the

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