How to connect your LAN to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
If you have a lot of your services hosted in the Amazon AWS public cloud, and are looking for ways to access your leased AWS resources in a secure way, this article is for you. Initially you started...
View ArticleHow to build a kernel module with DKMS on Linux
Suppose you wanted to install a device driver for a new graphics card, a WiFi dongle, or a network interface card that you purchased, and for whatever reason (e.g., missing prebuilt driver, outdated...
View ArticleHow to improve the security of Magento e-commerce website
Magento is an e-commerce software platform used by small businesses and leading brands, and its community edition is a freely available open-source program. Thanks to the huge collection of third-party...
View ArticleHow to allow incremental file sync for many users on Linux
Suppose you as a software developer has set up daily builds of your software for testing purposes. Every day you make a new build, users have to re-download the updated build to evaluate it. In this...
View ArticleHow to set up a self-hosted project management web app on Linux
When a group of employees collaborate on a project, there is need for handling all aspects and complexities of the project from start to finish, such as task assignment, scheduling, budget management,...
View ArticleHow to migrate Cacti to a new server
Cacti is a popular network graphing tool widely used by many service providers. For those of you who have been using Cacti to visualize the performance of various elements of your network, it is...
View ArticleHow to open a TCP/UDP socket in a bash shell
Suppose you want to open a TCP/UDP socket on a Linux server for various reasons. For example, you want to check if a specific address/port is reachable. Or you want to fetch a remote web page or invoke...
View ArticleHow to set up Zimbra mail server on CentOS
In this tutorial, we will examine the process of installing Zimbra mail server in CentOS Linux environment. Zimbra is my personal favorite when it comes to open-source mail servers as it comes with a...
View ArticleLinux vs. Windows device driver model: architecture, APIs and build...
Device drivers are parts of the operating system that facilitate usage of hardware devices via certain programming interface so that software applications can control and operate the devices. As each...
View ArticleHow to embed Python code in C program
Python is one of the most popular programming languages due to its simple syntax, ease of learning and cross-platform support. Besides, many high quality Python libraries and modules are available at...
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