Network infrastructure is the backbone of your computer’s connectivity and therefor should be stable, reliable and very little, if no downtime. If it isn’t the case, can you imagine getting disconnected from the server while you are remotely running your scripts via ssh? Not only that the script has to be re-run, but might damage [...]

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Renaming files can be a chore if you are facing about hundreds of files waiting to be renamed. But Linux has a built-in command that can be utilized to rename files by batch with just one line and without using scripts.
rename renames the filenames supplied according to the rule specified as the first argument. The [...]

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How to test if PHP connects to MySQL database?
There are numerous times when I have to setup Apache and PHP on a freshly installed Linux server. Considering that not only that Apache service should work, I also have to make sure that PHP and MySQL are working properly together.
Forgetful that I am, I always tend [...]

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How to delete files with dash or any special character?
Have you tried to delete a who-knows-where-it-came-from file which has a special character like preceded with dash or question mark? I bet that when you tried to delete it, you got something like this:
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If you are interested in Google domains, services or search operators, then get the Google Cheat Sheet. This PDF file contains the extensive list of thing that I am sure everyone wants to know.
Download the cheat sheet PDF here or view the screenshots:
Cheat Sheet Page 1
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There are some cases which you may want to format your hard drive, like maybe doing an OS upgrade or quitting your current job (heh..), but being a neurotic person that I am, I have thought about low level formatting, a hard drive erasure technique that leaves unrecoverable traces of data. This technique is very [...]

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