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Windows Group Policy: Set Chrome as Default with a Home Page

Opinion: So... your company wants to standardize on Chrome, eh? I must say that I…

PowerShell: Outdated Method of Sending Emails

# Credentials section $emailFrom = "[email protected]" $password = "eatYourSalad!" | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force # plaintext…

CentOS & Redhat Linux VS Exfat

Have you ever encountered this error: "Unable to access $$$ GB Volume" Error mounting /dev/mmcblk0…

Administering CentOS 8 with Cockpit

CentOS 8 default installation already has this utility installed. To render it active, one only…

How to install RetroArch on CentOS 8

RetroArch is a nice front-end GUI to enable a computer to emulate various console systems…

Installing Kubernetes on CentOS 8.1

Step 1: Preparing All Nodes # Installing prerequisites # Update before installation sudo su yum…

Linux Swap File Operations

Example: create, increase, or decrease existing swap file size swapoff -a # turn off swapping…

Disable Screensaver on CentOS 8

Here are a couple of tricks that worked in the past. I don't think they…

BASH: Basic AWK Training

At first, AWK resembles the first three letter of 'awkward'. Nope, it's a scripting language…

PowerShell: Reset Password for All Users inside an OU

$ouName="Funky Dudes" $ouPath = "ou=$ouName,dc=intranet,dc=baam,dc=com" $plaintextPassword='WHATPASSWORD?' $users=Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase $ouPath | Select-object Name,UserPrincipalName,DistinguishedName foreach…

Linux: How to Set Startup Script

In previous Linux versions, startup scripts can simply be enabled by linking a script into…

CentOS 8: How to Only Apply Security Updates

[cuilo@test-box ~]# sudo yum --security update CentOS-8 - AppStream 12 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00…

HPe Nimble Storage & Microsoft Failover Cluster with Fileserver Roles

Overview: Microsoft Fail-over Clustering is often deployed in conjunction with SAN storage. In this scenario,…

Linux: How to Use Tar and Gunzip

Tar is an archival system. It helps bundling many directories and files into a single…

Linux: How to Migrate Users to a New Host

Overview: Linux systems are mostly compatible with one another, even when their kernel versions are…

Linux: How to Install ProFTPd on CentOS 8 as an SFTP Server

Introduction: While this article focuses on the installation and configuration aspects of SFTP via the…

BASH: Basic SED Training

Do you know Sed? If you ask 'who is he', then this little article if…

Hyper-V: Clone Linux Guest VM

There are two methods of cloning an existing guest VM: Templating and Copying. Templating has…

Unix / Linux File Permissions Cheat Sheet

General Permissions Overview: Permissions (base) 1 – execute2 – write4 – read Permissions (octal) 3…

Linux: How to Change IP Address of CentOS 8 Machine

# Check the network interface config files ls /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts [cuilo@web02 ~]$ ls /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ifcfg-ens192 #…