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. In this […]
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 […]
The easiest way to retrieve the serial number from an ESXi host is to use the esxcfg-info command. First login via SSH and run the below command: This command by itself outputs a lot of […]
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