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This is a quick article to show you what is in my opinion, the easiest way to perform a global search and replace in vi. This post assumes you already have a basic understanding of vi. While vi is a full screen editor, it s foundation, is still based on a line editor. Let s say that Continue reading "vi Global Search and Replace" The post vi Global Search and Replace first appeared on | awk .
Hello and welcome back! In this post we are going to address how to create a private Certificate Authority (CA) with opensource tools, mainly Openssl. Having a private certificate authority allows you to trust private sites, for example: a private https server serving content in a private network can be trusted by the browser so Continue reading "Create a WORKING Private Certificate Authority FREE…
Welcome back! This post discusses picks up from where insert article link here left off. Now that you have the roms loaded and playing games in RetroPie, you notice that the games have no description, images, etc. If you would like to show pretty images and description, this article is for you. There are several Continue reading "RetroPie Screen Scraping with Skyscraper" The post RetroPie Screen…
What if I tell you that you can run a cloud virtual server with 2CPU, 12GB of RAM (The limit has recently changed from 2CPU and 12GB of RAM.), and up t0 200GB of Storage for FREE? Yes you heard right, FREE. YES You can, the first caveat is that the server is not Intel Continue reading "Running a Free Ampere Instance on Oracle Cloud" The post Running a Free Ampere Instance on Oracle Cloud first…
Welcome back. This post describes my adventure in setting up RetroPie to play some of the games I used to play as a child, and also to expose my children to the older games, which in my opinion, are way better than modern games. In most modern games, graphics are the priority and sometimes, the Continue reading "My Retro Video Games Adventure with Retropie" The post My Retro Video Games Adventure…
Welcome back, in this post we are going to discuss what I call, the most famous editor ever created, vi, the name vi is an abbreviation of the word visual. which was an evolution of the original ex editor, a line editor. When vi was introduced, it was like a revolution, it introduced the ability to Continue reading "A brief introduction to vi" The post A brief introduction to vi first appeared on…
Thank you for checking in. This article will explain how to expand a NAS drive array capacity without data loss. But before we explain, let s outline some assumptions. In this article we assume that a RAID 1 or a RAID 5 type array is configured in the NAS and that all drive bays are used, Continue reading "Expand NAS Drive Array Capacity Without Data Loss" The post Expand NAS Drive Array Capacity…
Welcome back. This post is a continuation of part 1 and it assumes you have read it. Find part 1 here. Now, let s continue the discussion about a dynamic vs static linked executable. You should probably ask yourself why and when would I use one vs the other? Let s summarize the difference between a static Continue reading "The Mystery of Dynamically Linked or Statically Linked Executables (Part…
Hello readers, today I decided to explain a deep concept not usually discussed often because of the abstractions computer languages have created. But in the end, on a Linux/UNIX system, there is an executable binary file that can be either dynamically or statically linked. I hope this post find as many users as possible due Continue reading "The Mystery of Dynamically Linked or Statically Linked…
This article picks up where my previous article left off. If you haven t read it, please check it out here. Now let s continue. In the previous article, we discussed how to manage tmux session, creating and attaching to sessions. Now, let s discuss some of the advanced topics. First of all, let s discuss key-bindings. For example, Continue reading "Demystify Multitasking Terminal with the TMUX…