Learn to capture and interpret network information with Wireshark.
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Using this playbook, you can quickly deploy and update your Vim configuration using Infrastructure as Code principles.
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Use Prometheus to gather metrics into usable, actionable entries, giving you the data you need to manage alerts and performance information in your environment.
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DNF for APT users

Take a look at a few common and useful DNF and APT operations.
Jonathan Roemer
Thu, 10/29/2020 at 5:38am

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Photo by Josh Sorenson from Pexels

When hopping between Linux distributions, it can be challenging to smoothly transition between the different interfaces to package management tools. In this article, we’re going to review some common operations and how to perform them using both dnf and apt.

Topics:  
Linux  
Linux Administration  
Package Management  
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mtr is an essential, real-time network diagnostic tool for your sysadmin toolbox.
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Sysadmin tales: Take a look back at an old school IT prank

In the Age of IT Innocence, things and practical jokes were much simpler. Take five minutes to kick it “old school” with this stone age prank.
Rick Greene
Wed, 10/28/2020 at 3:13am

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“Apple IIe, Living Computer Museum & Labs, Seattle” by mattk1979 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Set your Wayback Machine to the early ’80s. Disco was dead and gone, pop rock was making waves, and consumer computers were available enough that some schools started figuring out that teaching computers was something they should do.

My school was one of those—the lovely Manheim Township High School in Neffsville, PA. A classroom was repurposed as a computer lab, as the prior computer area was barely larger than a closet and only had four terminals connected to some type of “miniframe” computer, with one Apple II computer on a rolling cart.

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Linux  
Hardware  
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When brilliant strategies go wrong, they can really go wrong and your opponent has to come to your rescue.
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