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You do not want someone else to be able to monitor or even control your computer and you usually work hard to cut off any such attempts using various security mechanisms. However, sometimes a situation occurs when you desperately need a friend, or an expert, to help you with a computer problem, but they are not at the same location at the same time.

One of the most used server-side script languages according to some ranks is the PHP language.

In the pre-pandemic past, time and budget often limited which industry events people could attend. While time will always be a factor, the shift towards virtual gatherings has made that commitment much easier for many people. Pair a more flexible schedule with reduced costs for travel and tickets, and you have the most accessible industry landscape in history.

In this guide you are going to learn how to install Node.js and NPM, manage multiple versions, uninstall versions using Node Version Manager.

It's Software Privacy Day again, the day meant to encourage users everywhere to spare a thought about where their data actually goes when it's posted on, over, or through the Internet. One of the cottage industries around Internet communication that seems to ebb and flow in popularity is the venerable chat application. People use chat applications for all manner of conversations, and most people don't think about what bots are recording and monitoring what's being said, whether it's to effectively target ads or just to build a profile for future use.

Nano isn’t good as it should be, while vim seems quite complex for the beginner. There are many Text Editor for Linux users, and choosing the best one is quite debatable. Suppose you do not want to leave nano because other editors are too complex and require a learning curve. Then you didn’t try till now micro terminal-based text editor.

This guide explains what is Mackup, and how to backup and restore application settings with Mackup on a freshly installed Linux system.

As Kubernetes users know, Rancher is a popular complete software stack for running and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure. Now, since Linux and cloud-power SUSE acquired Rancher, it's launched its first new program: Rancher Desktop 1.0

Good news today for fans of the KDE Plasma desktop environment as I just found out that the next major release, Plasma 5.24, will be an LTS (Long-Term Support) series maintained for about 18 months.

Until now, no Valhall devices (Mali-G57, Mali-G78) ran mainline Linux - whilst this made driver development obviously difficult, there’s no better time to write drivers than before the devices even get into the hands of end users. Here's a tale from Alyssa Rosenzweig, on how she wrote an open source GPU driver – without the hardware.

Every year, everyone is waiting to see what the next version of the most popular CMS on the planet is going to bring. WordPress 5.9 marks the introduction of the next generation of themes that allows greater customization and simpler building.

Grafana is free and open-source analytics and visualization tool. It's a multi-platform web-based application that provides customizable charts, graphs, and alerts for supported data sources. This tutorial will show you how to install Grafana with Nginx as a Reverse Proxy on the Rocky Linux system.

Most of us don't think of the desktop as something separate from the operating system. What you see on the screen—that is Windows or that is macOS. But on Linux, there is no one desktop. Instead, there are many.

If you are a traditional programmer, using bash for scripting may seem limiting sometimes, but for certain tasks, bash can be very productive. It turns out, some of the limits of bash are really limits of older shells and people code to that to be compatible. Still other perceived issues are because some of the advanced functions in bash are arcane or confusing.

A small SNAFU in Linux kernel land meant that a notification regarding the stable review cycle for the 5.16.3 release didn't reach everyone it should have. For the first time in the 31-year history of the Linux kernel, there were over 999 commits to a stable version, which caused a very minor problem.

Terraform is a framework for building and configuring infrastructure as code, with a command-line interface and DSL language. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions to build and configure complete distributed data centers.

Higher education institutions are actively looking for ways to adapt to rapidly improving technology and enable students to use advances in computing to study, collaborate, and learn in new ways. Many institutions have been using open source software to exchange knowledge more easily, ensure a better learning experience, and handle administration with fewer worries.

In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to install the latest version (3.11 as of writing) of Python on Ubuntu. Step-by-step, beginner-friendly instructions.

Rclone can copy files between two different cloud providers. In this brief guide, we will see how to transfer files between Dropbox and Google Drive with Rclone in Linux.

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service  (PaaS). Azure handles database management functions such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring and we do not need to worry about these operations. In this article, we will see how to create an SQL database, connect to it, create a table in it and delete it at the end.