Viewing crontab and a backup script.
This is a command that will list the contents of your crontab file if you have one. You need to use the sudo command as unprivileged users are not allowed to list the contents of this folder. The best...
View ArticleComputer tape drives coming back to the computers of 2012.
Computer tape drives were all the rage in the early days of computing, with computer tape drives able to store massive amounts of data these days. The early computers used tape to store computer...
View ArticleUsing the free Clonezilla software to image a Windows machine to distribute...
The free Clonezilla Linux distribution allows the creation and distribution of disk images allowing the Administrator of a room full of computers to create a good fresh installation of the Microsoft...
View ArticleCloud based user accounts backup in Windows 8 Enterprise; how Linux could...
I have just installed the Windows 8 Enterprise 90 day trial and first impressions are quite positive. After logging into Windows the first time using your Windows Live account your desktop is setup and...
View ArticleKeeping your data safe by backing up your data. A good hard disk and external...
Backing up your precious data to protect your files is essential; the Seagate range of hard drives provide a reliable solution for backing up your data or a large capacity hard drive for installing...
View ArticleBacking up your computer is very important indeed. How to do it with Linux...
The importance of backing up your computer can not be understated. This is an integral part of using a computer, judging by the outages of various cloud backup services like the Microsoft Azure and...
View ArticleHow to backup your home directory easily with the rsync command.
How to use rsync to backup your home directory or whole system and skip directories that are not required to be backed up. This simple rsync command will backup the contents of your home directory to a...
View ArticleUnsecured websites are still a thing in November 2019.
It is still possible to find anything on the Internet. Backups of websites containing passwords and information. It is all out there, and not everyone is getting the message that this is a bad idea....
View ArticleBack up your home directory easily with this simple script.
Back up your home directory with this simple script. This will concatenate all of your files into one tar archive, then compress it into a gzipped file. Firstly, install the required applications....
View ArticleHow to use the command line to change GTK settings easily.
The settings used by the file chooser in MATE or Gnome can be changed easily with the command line. The gsettings utility makes this easy. This example will alter the Firefox file chooser, it will have...
View ArticleHow to find more interesting stuff online with Google.
Some very useful Google Dorks for 2022. These can find some very interesting files. Like @pwcache files and /etc/passwd files containing Linux passwords...
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