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Linux - Come inviare E-Mail con sSMTP (con configurazioni-tipo per GMail, Aruba e Yahoo)
Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Web

Linux - How to install and configure sSMTP, a simpler alternative to Postfix and Sendmail A brief tutorial explaining how to setup sSMTP, a simple Linux service to send e-mail through your CentOS machine

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If you stumbled upon this post it means that you want to find a way to send e-mails from your Linux server and you're looking for a simpler alternative to configure …

Linux - How to install and configure sSMTP, a simpler alternative to Postfix and Sendmail A brief tutorial explaining how to setup sSMTP, a simple Linux service to send e-mail through your CentOS machine Read More
Top 6 PC Basic Tricks and Tweaks for Computer Users
Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Windows

Windows 10 - How to set Domain User permissions on the local PC An overview of the various available options to configure user permissions for an Active Directory domain on individual PC workstations

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Anyone who works as a System Administrator on Windows Server platforms is well aware of the importance of user permissions: in most cases it is advisable to provide their users …

Windows 10 - How to set Domain User permissions on the local PC An overview of the various available options to configure user permissions for an Active Directory domain on individual PC workstations Read More
PHP - How to disable error log, display errors and error reporting programmatically
Coding / Linux / Operating Systems / PHP / Servers & Services / Web

How to install PHP 7 on Linux CentOS A useful guide to understand how to securely install and setup PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2 and/or other PHP builds on a Linux CentOS machine

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Since we recently posted an article about downgrading from PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.1 on CentOS, we thought that it could be useful to add a post explaining how to …

How to install PHP 7 on Linux CentOS A useful guide to understand how to securely install and setup PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2 and/or other PHP builds on a Linux CentOS machine Read More
How to downgrade PHP version on Linux CentOS
Coding / Linux / Operating Systems / PHP / Servers & Services / Web

How to downgrade PHP version on Linux CentOS How to securely roll-back to a previous version and/or build of PHP - for example, from PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.1 - in a Linux CentOS machine

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PHP 7.2 release introduced many breaking changes that could prevent some of your application from working properly. Among the many backward-incompatible improvements, perhaps the most  crippling one is what they called …

How to downgrade PHP version on Linux CentOS How to securely roll-back to a previous version and/or build of PHP - for example, from PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.1 - in a Linux CentOS machine Read More
NextCloud 13 Login Page Redirect Loop - How to fix it
Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Web

NextCloud 13 Login Page Redirect Loop - How to fix it How to address a common issue of NextCloud Server, a great open-source file sync and share solution

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If you've never heard of NextCloud, do yourself a favor and fill that huge gap by taking a look here: in very short words, we're talking about an open-source File Sync …

NextCloud 13 Login Page Redirect Loop - How to fix it How to address a common issue of NextCloud Server, a great open-source file sync and share solution Read More
How to purge Nginx Proxy Cache in Linux CentOS
Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Web

How to purge Nginx Proxy Cache in Linux CentOS A list of useful methods provided by Nginx when used as a Reverse Proxy with caching features to selectively and/or globally invalidate its cache

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We already made a number of tutorials about Nginx, one of best web servers available for Linux - which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP …

How to purge Nginx Proxy Cache in Linux CentOS A list of useful methods provided by Nginx when used as a Reverse Proxy with caching features to selectively and/or globally invalidate its cache Read More
How to find out the number of CPU & Cores of your Linux machine
CPU & GPU / Linux / Operating Systems

How to find out the number of CPU & Cores of your Linux machine Some useful terminal commands to discover how many CPU, physical and logical cores are present in your Linux operating system

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Today I had to google a bit to discover how to find out how many CPU cores I had on one of my CentOS 7.x Virtual Machines. Luckily enough, I …

How to find out the number of CPU & Cores of your Linux machine Some useful terminal commands to discover how many CPU, physical and logical cores are present in your Linux operating system Read More
Wordpress - How to Fix Home Page Caching Issues by setting the Last-Modified response Header to the most recent post
Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Web

Nginx Reverse Proxy Cache for WordPress How to fine-tune Nginx used as a Reverse Proxy Cache server for a typical WordPress web site

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Some weeks ago we published a tutorial instructing how to use Nginx as a Reverse Proxy with buffering & cache functions using the standard edge-origin pattern. The configuration settings shown within …

Nginx Reverse Proxy Cache for WordPress How to fine-tune Nginx used as a Reverse Proxy Cache server for a typical WordPress web site Read More
VMware Workstation - How to Shrink a Mac OS X .vmdk (Virtual Mounted Disk) File
Applications / macOS / Operating Systems / Software / Tools & Utilities / Windows

VMware Workstation - How to Shrink a Mac OS X .vmdk (Virtual Mounted Disk) File How to effectively reduce the file size of a Mac OS X .vmdk file in VMware Workstation 12+

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As most people probably notice, the .vmdk files created by VMware for Mac OS X Operating Systems tend to continuously grow as time passes by, getting bigger and bigger after …

VMware Workstation - How to Shrink a Mac OS X .vmdk (Virtual Mounted Disk) File How to effectively reduce the file size of a Mac OS X .vmdk file in VMware Workstation 12+ Read More
HIYA - Come difendersi da telefonate indesiderate, chiamate spam, annunci e offerte commerciali
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HIYA - How to protect your Mobile Device against unwanted phone calls, spam calls, announcements and commercial offers An innovative spam-filter for smartphones that blocks the caller through a configurable blacklist of unwanted numbers

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Telephone-based marketing has never been as intrusive as in these years, at least in Italy. The ineffectiveness of the controls of the Data Protection Authorities and the evident inability of …

HIYA - How to protect your Mobile Device against unwanted phone calls, spam calls, announcements and commercial offers An innovative spam-filter for smartphones that blocks the caller through a configurable blacklist of unwanted numbers Read More