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A Guide to Choosing the Right OS for Your Business Some useful tips to help you choose an operating system for your company with a detailed analysis of the pros and cons between Windows, Linux and MacOS

November 28, 2018 - by Ollie Mercer - Leave a Comment

Selecting an operating system for your business can be a difficult decision to make. Unlike computers for personal use, there are a greater number of factors to consider. This includes …

Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services

Linux - Auto-Reboot and Shutdown with Cron Jobs - Task Scheduler alternative How to configure a daily or weekly automatic shutdown & reboot of your machine using cron job in Linux CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL

November 20, 2018November 20, 2018 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

Since we just published a guide to setup an auto-reboot or auto-shutdown on Windows machines, we thought that it could be useful to do the same for Linux systems as …

MySQL Master-Master Replication setup in 5 easy steps

Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services

Linux - MySQL and MariaDB sock file folder issues - how to fix How to force MySQL and MariaDB services to create the /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock and /var/run/mariadb/mariadb.sock files and folders

November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Yesterday I wrote a small tutorial explaining how to fix a common MySQL or MariaDB problem related to the pid file not being created upon the service startup. That same …

Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services

Linux - MySQL and MariaDB pid-file folder issues - how to fix How to force MySQL and MariaDB services to create the /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid and /var/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid files and folders

November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

If you've stumbled upon this post it most likely means that you've just discovered that your MySQL or MariaDB service, despite running without issues, are not creating their mysqld.pid or …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services

How to Deploy a ASP.NET Core 2 Web Application to Linux CentOS - Tutorial A detailed step-by-step guide explaining how to publish and deploy a ASP.NET Core 2.1 Web Application to a Linux CentOS machine - also working for Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, RHEL and more

November 5, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

In this post I will explain how to setup and deploy a production-ready ASP.NET Core Web Application on a NGINX-Powered Linux CentOS 7.x server. These instructions have also been tested with …

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P7M Convert - Trasform P7M digitally signed e-invoices to XML files A software tool to convert CAdES P7M files in XML format to import digitally signed electronic invoices into the main management applications

November 5, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

We just released the 1.0 final version of P7M Convert, a software tool that allows you to convert P7M files (digitally signed e-invoices in CAdES format) into plain XML files: the converted files can …

Linux / Servers & Services / Web

VSFTPD - How to configure a different home folder for each user A short guide explaining how to configure VSFTPD, the popular FTP service for Linux, to give a specific home folder for each FTP user

October 18, 2018October 18, 2018 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

We already talked about VSFTPD in this post, where we explained how to configure the service on a Linux CentOS machine, and also in this other post, where we explained how to …

Top 6 PC Basic Tricks and Tweaks for Computer Users

Applications / Linux / Operating Systems / Software / Tools & Utilities / Windows

7 Ways to Still Use Linux as a Windows Network Admin Some useful Linux distributions, applications and software that can be a perfect fit within any Windows network

September 26, 2018January 7, 2021 - by James Mawson - Leave a Comment

Once you get over the initial culture shock and myriad cruelties of Linux, it first starts to grow on you and then becomes your preferred way to build or run …

How to execute PHP7 CLI commands with cPanel and EasyApache 4 - PHP7 CLI path

Coding / Linux / Windows

How to find and list zero byte files in Windows and Linux A single-line Command Prompt script that will help you to locate all zero-byte files on your Windows or Linux machine and print them on screen or file

September 14, 2018September 15, 2018 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

Today I was asked to write a simple batch script to locate all zero-byte files within a Windows Server machine. The answer was definitely simple, thanks to the powerful FOR …

Coding / Linux / Servers & Services / SQL

How to safely upgrade from MariaDB 10.x to 10.3 without losing data A quick tutorial explaining how to perform a seamless upgrade from a previous version of MariaDB 10 to MariaDB 10.3 keeping all the existing databases intact

August 13, 2018March 26, 2019 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

It has been a while since MariaDB 10.3 has been out, bringing its stunning pack of changes, improvements and new features - most notably, System-versioned tables and Sequences. If you found this …