Online privacy is the goal of many of us who surf the web. Unfortunately, it is a fluid concept that is only partially achieved in most cases. Who, might you ask is storing or collecting my private data? Who is spying on me? Your local device (ie. your computer or smart phone) Your local ISP […]
Thumbnail a directory with this one liner. This script will make thumbnail images of all images in a directory and keep the originals. […]
Distribution Evaluation – Fedora 33 Distribution Evaluation – Fedora 33 – There are several improvements in this distribution. One of which is Gnome 3.38, but there are many package improvements also. The most noticeable change is a default to Btrfs filesystem. This gives you system snapshots, and support for multiple snapshots. It also brings enhanced […]
Distribution Evaluation – Ubuntu 20.10 Distribution Evaluation – Ubuntu 20.10 is the latest release of Ubuntu (Code named Groovy Gorilla). This is a short term release which means it will be supported for nine months, but there is an easy upgrade path to the next release. Ubuntu has many of the Debian releases. There is […]
Privilege Manipulation with Sudo starts with the sudoers file in /etc/. Root can share some or all rights with users. […]
Finding things in Linux is not complicated once you know a few commands. In the article we look at find, locate, and whereis commands. […]
Making unbreakable passwords is a challenge. One that you need to win. Unbreakable passwords don’t need to be impossible to make. […]
Understanding Man Pages is important when you are working with Linux as these are the manual pages (help section). […]
Distribution Evaluation – Kali Linux 20.4. Kali is a toolkit for pentesting and forensics. Kali Linux is perfect for administrators. […]
Distribution Evaluation – Linux Mint 20. Comes with the Cinnamon Desktop Linux Mint is a great general purpose distribution. […]