In this article I’ll explain how to setup a software RAID on Fedora. This will turn any number of attached USB drives into any flavour of RAID without the necessity of a dedicated enclosure. I’m...
Learn MoreI was surprised to find that the mail command doesn’t work out of the box in Fedora, nor in the minimal installation of CentOS 7. Thankfully there’s an easy way to add it by installing the mailx...
Learn MoreI like the idea of having a shared drive attached to my always-on Linux system, so that all my computers (Windows and Mac) can access those in a central place. It’s like a NAS without having a NAS box...
Learn MoreThe firewall-cmd tool has a neat feature in that it knows what ports are used for certain services. This is handy for things like web server ports which our tired brains may forget from time to time (hint:...
Learn MoreSometimes you google something, and all you get is a huge list of YouTube videos. In many situations, that’s just not what I want. Thankfully there’s an easy way to exclude YouTube videos from...
Learn MoreI no longer have a UK keyboard on most of my everyday computers, so there’s no obvious way for me to press the British Pound £ sign anymore (much like the € Euro sign). Thankfully there are reactively...
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