Getting you up to speed!
Today we’ll cover one way to enable or disable your network interface in the Linux terminal. We will cover enabling and disabling your network interface, so you might want to keep this in mind. If you have multiple network interfaces, you might want to disable one of them. You might want to disable networking to … Continue reading “Enable/Disable Your Network Interface”
Today’s exercise is a nice and simple exercise where we check your NIC speed in the terminal. Anyone can do this, but it’s less useful for you if you don’t use a NIC and rely on wireless. If you’re using a wireless controller, this isn’t the article for you. I’ll make this article short. What … Continue reading “Check Your NIC Speed In The Terminal”
Have you ever wanted to easily monitor your wireless connection? Well, now you can learn how to do that while using tools you have already installed. This won’t even be all that complicated. If you use a wireless connection to connect to the internet, you may notice that it changes over time. It can fluctuate … Continue reading “Easily Monitor Your Wireless Connection”
I think I’ve covered this before with the ls command but this time we’ll count the files in a directory with the find command. This being Linux, you can usually count on there being multiple ways to accomplish something. There are lots of tools out there that let you visualize disk usage. I’ve covered a … Continue reading “Count The Files In A Directory”
Today we’ll be learning about a basic Linux command that’s known as ‘uname’ and it will be available in every Linux you are likely to touch. The uname command is one way to show some important system information in the Linux terminal. You won’t even need to install anything. That’ll keep things easy and short! … Continue reading “Get System Information With The ‘uname’ Command In Linux”
If you’ve used hardinfo in the past, it may interest you to know that hardinfo has been rebooted as hardinfo2. This is just a quick ‘news’ article and won’t take up much of your time. It’s worth reading, however! So, I wrote this some time ago: Graphically Examine Hardware Info With HardInfo I assume that’s … Continue reading “hardinfo Has Been Rebooted As hardinfo2”
This won’t be as complicated as it seems because we’re just going to cover how to count the number of running processes per user. This is a fairly basic task that requires fairly basic tools. If you want to count the number of running processes per user, read on! It’s quite simple… Your Linux system … Continue reading “Count The Number Of Running Processes Per User”
Today’s article, as was indicated in the title, is a short article where we learn how to show the groups you belong to. It’s just a simple command, so we’ll toss in some extra knowledge. But, this is just a short article. You won’t have much to do in this article. The latest article explained … Continue reading “Short: Show The Groups You Belong To”
This is going to be a simple enough article where we list all the groups in Linux – specifically your Linux. (Your list of groups may not be the same as my list of groups, of course.) This isn’t complicated but might be important to some of you, so we might as well write about … Continue reading “List All The Groups In Linux”
Today’s article is going to be something my regular readers wouldn’t expect as we discuss legitimate reasons to not use Linux. Like it or not, people have reasons not to use Linux. I’ll cover some of them that I think are more legitimate than other reasons. I think I’ll link to these first: Top 10 … Continue reading “Legitimate Reasons To Not Use Linux”
