Getting you up to speed!
INXI is something I mention a lot. In fact, I’ve done a whole INXI article before, I like it that much. It makes sharing detailed hardware information easy. The people trying to help you when you need support may need detailed information about your hardware, which is where INXI excels and why it exists. You … Continue reading “Let’s Install INXI”
Disk health is an important matter. Your storage media has a useful lifespan and the clock is ticking it from day one. Either hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD), your storage media has a limited lifespan. You should plan on your drives failing because, given enough time or use, they will fail. … Continue reading “How To: Use S.M.A.R.T. To Check Disk Health”
In this article, we’ll go hunting for rootkits with a tool known as ‘rkhunter‘. It’s relatively easy to use rkhunter and this article will show you how. Don’t worry, it’s not all that complicated. You can do it. Recommended reading: What You Need to Know About Linux Rootkits So, what is a rootkit? Well, for … Continue reading “Let’s Use rkhunter To Look For Rootkits”
This article is based on an AskUbuntu question I answered a while back. The user wanted to know how to use Wayland in a live instance of Ubuntu. They wanted to test some Wayland stuff and this was how they wanted to do it. I personally would have gone a different route, but that’s fine. … Continue reading “How To: Use Wayland in a Live Ubuntu Instance”
There are many reasons why you may want to change your default terminal emulator. It’s actually nice easy to change the default terminal. This article explains how and anyone should be able to do it, even a beginner! First, it’s often called a terminal emulator because it allows you to emulate the terminal in a … Continue reading “Let’s Learn How To Change The Default Terminal”
Should you use screenFetch or Neofetch? That’s up to you to decide. This article will share some info about both of them. This should be a pretty short article. I also confess that there’s not much of a “vs.” here. The screenFetch app hasn’t been updated in a long time and Neofetch is the clear … Continue reading “Screenfetch vs. Neofetch, You Decide!”
For whimsy, or for whatever reasons you dream up, you may want to rename your network adapters in Linux. Well, you can. This article will explain how to rename your network adapters, from perhaps eth0 to whatever you want. I can only be certain that this works in current Ubuntu LTS – 20.04, I didn’t … Continue reading “How To: Rename Your Network Adapters in Ubuntu”
For some reason, Ubuntu Server comes with ‘power management’ enabled. This is an article that tells you how to disable sleep and hibernation in Ubuntu Server. It’ll work just fine for non-server installs, but this is aimed specifically at the Ubuntu Server release. I recently was working on my own router. For this, I used … Continue reading “How To: Disable Sleep And Hibernation on Ubuntu Server”
‘vnStat’ is a wonderful tool for monitoring your bandwidth usage. This article will show you how to use vnStat effectively. For bonus points, we’ll also look at ‘vnstati’ so you can make pretty graphs to visualize your bandwidth usage. This article shouldn’t take too long! ‘vnStat‘ stands for ‘view network statistics’ and has been around … Continue reading “‘vnStat’ A Tool For Monitoring Your Bandwidth Usage”
When you take a digital picture, the resulting file contains potentially personal information. It is known as ‘Exif‘ and it contains sensitive information. This article will explain how to sanitize Exif data to avoid leaking your personal information. If this article looks familiar, I’ve previously authored an article on this subject. It’s at the old … Continue reading “How To: Sanitize Exif Data From Your Digital Images For Privacy Sake”
