Asciinema is an awesome tool for recording your console sessions. It's great for documenting processes and, in general, showing people how shit works: one...

This is not an entirely proper way to benchmark a DNS server, but, in a pinch, it should give you some idea of its...

The Facebook privacy saga is getting ridiculous. You’re using a free service that you signed up for - nobody was holding a gun to...

Admittedly, this has a limited range of practical applications and is more of a scripting exercise. The command shown here generates a bunch of...

Just a quick note on how to completely remove (more or less) Chef server installation from a CentOS/RHEL box. There are a bunch of bits...

The QNAP Resource Monitor utility available via the Web UI provides a lot of useful functionality with good visual presentation. However, sometimes you need...

This was a silly solution to a silly problem, but may come in handy in the future for other things. A user process was...

When you get a filesystem space alert (and they tend to arrive at 3:37 on Saturday morning), deleting various supersized log files is one...

Here's an interesting article "How Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords – Krebs on Security." 14 Oct. 2021, krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/how-coinbase-phishers-steal-one-time-passwords. detailing the methods scammers use to...