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Debian Linux 6: Install Nvidia Proprietary Unix Driver

The NVIDIA Linux proprietary unified drivers supports various features such as 3d rendering, opengl and much more. This post covers installing and configuring NVIDIA's proprietary graphic card driver...

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Debian Linux 6: Install and Configure Compiz Eye Candy Effects

Compiz is an OpenGL compositing windows manager for the X Window system. It use 3D graphics hardware to create desktop effects such as a rotating desktop cubes, a minimization animation and many other...

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Debian Squeeze: Install Emerald Windows Decorator And Theme Manager

The Emerald Window Decorator is a custom window decorator shipped with Compiz Fusion that allows for theming and full composite window decorations with the use of engines. Emerald allows for all sorts...

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Debian Linux Install Avant: A MacOS X Like Panel for GNOME Desktop

Avant Window Navigator (AWN or Awn) is a fully customisable dock-like bar for the GNOME desktop environment.This quick blog post explains how to install and use Avant Window Navigator (AWN) under...

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Linux / Unix Desktop Fun: Cat And Mouse Chase All Over Your Screen

Oneko is a little fun app. It will change your cursor into mouse and creates a little cute cat and the cat start chasing around your mouse cursor. The word "neko" means "cat" in Japanese and it was...

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Linux ifdata Command: See Network Interface Info Without Parsing ifconfig Output

Reading an IP address in a shell script requires many time and various Linux distributions stores IP address in different text files. So most of us end up writing shell pipes/scripts to get the...

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Apache / Nginx: Visualize Web Server Access Log In Real Time

Logstalgia (also known as ApachePong) is a very powerful and handy app. It is a website access log visualization tool. It is an extremely useful tool to give you look at your web server traffic. I...

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Download of The Day: Debian Linux 7 ( Wheezy )

Debian GNU/Linux version 7.0 Wheezy has been released ( jump to download ) after many months of constant development and available for download in various media format. Debian 7.0 is a free operating...

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Linux and Unix nload App: Monitor Network Traffic and Bandwidth Usage In Real...

If you want to monitor network throughput on the command line interface, use nload application. It is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It...

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Rollback an apt-get upgrade if something goes wrong on Debian / Ubuntu Linux

Rolling back to the previous version may solve the problem or free the disk space. Both CentOS/RHEL support rollback feature, but I learned hard way both Debian and Ubuntu does not support rollback...

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Debian Linux 8.3 “jessie” released and here is how to upgrade it from 8.2 to 8.3

The Debian GNU/Linux project has released an updated version of its stable distribution Debian 8 ("jessie"). You must update to get corrections for security problem as this version made a few...

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How to protects Linux and Unix machines from accidental shutdowns/reboots...

Oops! I did it again. I thought I was logged into my home server. Turns out I rebooted the db server. Another my not so favorite is typing "shutdown -h 0" into the wrong terminal. I know a few people...

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OpenSSL drops TLS 1.0/1.1 support for Debian Unstable and what does it mean...

From the announcement mailing list: I've just uploaded a version of OpenSSL to unstable that disables the TLS 1.0 and 1.1 protocol. This currently leaves TLS 1.2 as the only supported SSL/TLS protocol...

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Download of The Day: Debian Linux 9 ( Stretch )

Debian GNU/Linux version 9.0 stretch has been released ( jump to download ) after many months of constant development and available for download in various media format. Debian 9.0 is a free operating...

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gtop: Awesome system monitoring dashboard for Linux/macOS Unix terminal

> I like htop interactive process viewer. Recently I found another one called gtop. It is similar to top, but fancier. Let us see how to install and use gtop on a Linux or macOS Unix based system....

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Updated version of Debian Linux 8/9 has been released

The Debian project has announced an updated version of Debian 9 (codename "stretch") and Debian 8 (codename "jessie"). One can get new updates merely running the apt command/apt-get command. The post...

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Debian Linux 9.4 released and here is how to upgrade it

The Debian GNU/Linux project has released an updated version of its stable Linux distribution Debian 9 ("stretch"). You must upgrade to get corrections for security problem as this version made a few...

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Debian Linux 7 Long Term Support reached end-of-life

The Debian Linux version 7 (codenamed "Wheezy") support ended on 31st May 2018. It was initial release on May 4, 2013. Each LTS ( initial release on May 4, 2013) support lasts for five years. It means...

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A cautionary tale about locking Linux & FreeBSD user accounts

Like every other solo developer and sysadmin, I do stuff using ssh. Some stuff is automated using scripts, and others require ssh login. For example, one of my scripts logs into my Linux and FreeBSD...

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How to protect Linux against rogue USB devices using USBGuard

usbgurd You deployed a perfect firewall and other network security policies preventing unauthorized access to the user's desktop computer over a network. However, you still need to block USB device...

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