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Mend Renovate is a wonderful set-and-forget utility that helps you keep your project’s dependencies up to date. It’s ...
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I’ve been using HAProxy for a very long time. In most cases, I work on stuff where HAProxy configuration fits into th...
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SOPS (Secret OPerationS) is a useful tool for encrypting sensitive data, but it doesn’t get enough praise. It support...
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Recently I wanted to improve the WiFi coverage in my house. My trusted Linksys EA6350 v3 wasn’t able to cover to full...
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Bash completion is a wonderful feature that allows you quickly compose complex shell commands. Add muscle memory to t...
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The fingerprint sensor on Lenovo Thinkpad T480s is not supported by libfprint, so you can’t use it out of the box. Th...
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I’m frequently required to quickly get a hold of a random password. I’m either resetting password for a client or I’m...
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I remember using the web feeds (RSS and Atom) in Mozilla Firefox in the early 2000s. It was the time before social ne...
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I’m by no means a Python developer, but as a sysadmin, I’m constantly interacting with Python - my scripting language...
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Tesseract OCR package is available for CentOS 6 via EPEL yum repository, but unfortunately, at the time of writing th...
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Dovecot is great POP3/IMAP mail server but its internal search mechanism falls short when dealing with large mailboxe...
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HAProxy is one of very few pieces of software that are truly a joy to use. It’s written in C, it’s reliable, fast, se...
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Rebuilding software RAID array is very easy when you have your mdadm.conf file at hand, but when you find yourself in...
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Recently I was unfortunate to witness huge filesystem loop on a cPanel server that was caused by combination of VirtF...
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In case you’ve set up Nginx as reverse proxy for PHP-FPM and you have very slow or complex PHP script that executes f...
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If you’re in a need for fast and simple solution to block certain senders directly on Exim mail server, you’re in luc...
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A few days ago I was asked to configure AWStats to count downloads of .exe files on an website. I know that it’s blin...
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The other day I needed to change passwords for multiple cPanel accounts. Since there was a lot accounts in question, ...
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If you’ve installed Nginx from source, adding custom modules is easy. You simply recompile Nginx and include the modu...
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The other day I had to do some maintenance on a server with Nginx configured as a reverse proxy for Apache. The confi...