Personally I dislike pip as a package manager for system packages as it can cause unexpected errors and/or a dependency nightmare. For me, you should always install a package using the distros package manager if […]
There are a number of ways to install the AWS command line tools. Below is the method I favour on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: Check that was successful with: Configure aws-cli to use your AWS credentials: […]
Rclone is a command line tool used to mount and synchronise files and directories between a Linux workstation and various cloud-based storage provides like Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud storage, and many more. Installation You […]
HP provides a command line utility called HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE SSACLI) used to configure, manage and monitor their RAID storage controllers. This application has changed its name over the years but is now […]
Rambox is a great tool that brings many many email and messaging clients into one single program. I currently use it for Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram and Outlook 365 and Hotmail. Previously I had installed it […]
Arch Linux Installing terraform on Arch Linux variants is pretty straightforward. Its available here and supported in their standard repository. You can test that worked with: CentOS 7 Unfortunately the situation is not quite as […]
In a previous post I installed PowerShell on my Arch Linux based system. Here I use it to check and amend Office 365 mailbox permissions. If you needed to give everyone Reviewer access, you would […]
There are a number of tools that will allow you to generate secure passwords including urandom, OpenSSL, GPG and pwgen. I will briefly demo these below. OpenSSL The below generates a random string of 14 […]
We’re all used to using online broadband speed tests from our desktops to test our internet speeds – but what about from a Linux server without a GUI browser? My favourite tool for this purpose […]
I recently updated Manjaro i3 and was surprised that on the next reboot I was locked out. I was met by a black screen after the Grub menu and it just seemed to hang. I […]
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