Let’s pick up right where Part 1 left off: pfSense Firewall Appliance Unboxing. This isn’t a quick-start guide. It’s my logbook from weeks of fine-tuning pfSense. Weeks, not years, so follow along and…
May 30, 2025 Ariffud M. 11min Read The LGTM stack – consisting of Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for tracing, and Mimir for metrics – is an open-source observability suite developed…
The sudo command in Linux is one of the most important and widely used commands for managing system permissions. It allows you to run a command as the superuser, giving you elevated privileges…
This iotop command guide follows my previous 90 Linux Commands frequently used by Linux Sysadmins article. As time allows, I will continue to publish articles on the 90+ commands geared toward Linux sysadmins…
If you’ve ever looked at your server and wondered why it’s using swap even though plenty of RAM is available, you’re not alone. This is a common scenario on Linux systems, and it…
May 19, 2025 Viktoras D. Datapacks (or data packs) are a powerful way to customize Minecraft without mods. They expand gameplay in vanilla Minecraft, multiplayer, and existing singleplayer worlds. You can change game…
DeepSeek, founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops open-source large language models (LLMs). Their flagship model, DeepSeek-R1, is gaining popularity for its advanced reasoning capabilities, with…
Apr 25, 2025 Ariffud M. 10min Read v0 by Vercel is an AI tool that turns natural language prompts into production-ready React and Tailwind CSS code. It streamlines the process of building user…
Nov 22, 2024 Ariffud M. As a security-focused operating system, Kali Linux lets you perform various tasks, such as penetration testing, digital forensics, and network analysis. With hundreds of security tools, it’s ideal…
Nov 18, 2024 CyberPanel provides a graphical interface and various features to streamline Linux virtual private server (VPS) management. However, setting up this web hosting control panel might be tricky for beginners since…
Nov 14, 2024 A hosting control panel provides a graphical user interface and various features for managing your Linux virtual private server (VPS). It eliminates the need for commands, making the administration process…
Updating your Linux system is one of the most important things you can do to keep it secure, stable and running well. With updates, you can patch vulnerabilities, fix bugs and access new…
Recently, I wanted to test network throughput via command line with at least 3 tools. For the life of me, I could not remember iperf. Not being able to remember previously used command…
Nov 06, 2024 One of GitLab’s distinguishing features is that you can self-host it by installing it on a private server. This has several benefits, such as maintaining data integrity, enhancing security, and…
As a Linux newbie looking for DIY projects, you have plenty to choose from. Linux is full of hands-on learning and experimentation opportunities. From virtualization to server management and security, there’s a project…
Have you ever experienced slow application performance on a server and wondered which process was causing the bottleneck? In a production server environment, monitoring system performance and hardware resource usage in real-time is…
Oct 15, 2024 Ariffud M. Ollama is an open-source tool that runs large language models (LLMs) directly on a local machine. This makes it particularly appealing to AI developers, researchers, and businesses concerned…
Oct 02, 2024 Valentinas C. Ollama is an open-source platform that lets you run fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) locally on your machine. It supports a variety of popular LLMs, including Llama 2,…
