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Using Non Default Php Version On Plesk Server Cli

One line command to download public keys from GitHub and Append them to the authorized_keys file for simple server access

Release Announcement for the Input Class

A quick article on how to use the tar command on the cli to compress a directory

Several commands for adding and modifying users in a mysql database.

In this article we are looking at how we can use a custom domain for our email addresses whilst using the popular webmail GMail without having to pay for the benefit.

Previously I wrote an article on how to install PHP 7.2 on Debian 8, since 7.2 is now available here is how to install 7.2. If you're looking to install 7.1 instead please look at the link I have supplied.

How to install Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) persistently to a USB.

Ubuntu is one of the most popular and user friendly distributions of Linux, sporting a tweaked version of Gnome Shell as the default desktop environment

When importing and dumping mysql databases, it can take a while to perform such tasks and common MySQL clients dont tend to handle large databases quite well, appearing to just hang. Instead its easier and more informative to perform these actions on the command line and pipe the output through Pipe Viewer, so you can see the progress and estimated completion time. This tutorial shows how to import and export large MYSQL Databses with Progress Bar.

In 2018 media such as CD’s and DVD’s have almost died out, with USB drives holding more capacity and being produced relatively cheaply. This means it makes more sense and is better value to use USB drives in place of CD’s or DVD’s.

This article looks at how to create a bootable USB drives for various uses.

How to create a bootable USB drive from an iso file on windows.

Vagrant is a powerful tool when it comes to virtual machines, here we will look at how to setup and use Vagrant with Virtualbox on Ubuntu to provision reproducible virtual machines.

Introducing Web Pi, the Web User Interface for interacting with your raspberry Pi. Web Pi https://webpi.chris-shaw.com/ is a simple web application for the raspberry pi which logs the output of cronjobs that run in the background to files which it interrogates to output to the user. This is done due to the limited resources of the raspberry pi and to reduce loading times.

When diagnosing internet and network connectivity, having a way to monitor issues over time is important. Here we will look at how to periodically log up and down speeds of the network.

The standard way of using a Raspberry Pi is to run the OS from a micro sd card. The problem with this is that the SD Card has limited read and writes, which will cause the SD to fail in a short period of time, especially if you write to files frequently.

This article is for installing PHP 7.2 on debian 8, but if you want to install 7.1 instead a link is provided to the appropriate article.

Virtual hosts in apache take incoming requests and point them to the correct directory. Here we will look into using wildcards to automate sub domains.

Recently changed to having self hosted SSL Certificates thanks to LetsEncrypt. This is how easy it can be.

I have had linux as my primary OS for about a decade now, and primarily use Ubuntu. But with the latest release I have decided to migrate back to an OS I generally dislike, Windows 10.

Over the years I have found my way around many minor hurdles when using Ubuntu, the most recent being Using the DELL ULTRAHD 4K USB 3.0 DOCKING STATION (D3100). I was issued one at work to allow me to hook 2 IPS monitors to my generic i5 laptop which only had one hdmi. Now for my co workers using windows, this was fairly simple. Where as I found it a little harder but mostly because of how hidden the drivers were.