Setup a Remote GUI on Linux Using VNC Server There are some times when having a remote GUI console can be very helpful. You may want to use the GUI interface for configuring the machine or to use applications. I…
What is the TorProject The TorProject is a pretty cool option to help you preserve your anonymity on the internet. Among other things, the Torproject created the Tor browser that allows you to surf without directly contacting the remote server. …
Apachebench Bench Marking – How Fast is my Webpage? Before you deploy your website for the masses, you may want to performance tune it to make it run faster and serve more users. A simple tool that you can use…
Uptime vs Database Backups Backups of your database can be an enemy to your system uptime. Doing a filesystem dump of your database tablespace files will require that it occur while your database is down so that you don’t have…
Let’s imagine that you had added a new physical disk to your Linux box and you need to get it setup to use inside your Linux operating system. This can be done pretty quickly. You can add the filesystem directly…
Booting CentOS in Single User Mode When you have an issue where CentOS will no longer boot, you have to be able to get into the operating system to resolve the problem. I have had to boot into single user…