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Signals, Jobs and Process Control

Signals, Jobs and Process Control

One very common command line activity is process control. In this tutorial, using tools like kill, and builtins like fg and jobs to interact with processes, and cover how to run them in both the foreground, and background of a single terminal.

Posted by Will - February 3rd '20

How To: xargs

How To: xargs

In this tutorial we'll cover how to use the xargs command-line tool. xargs allows arbitrary input, like the output of another command or the contents of a file, to be used as the parameters for another command.

Posted by Will - January 27th '20

How To: User Signup, Email Activation and Login in MySQL and PHP

How To: User Signup, Email Activation and Login in MySQL and PHP

Many websites use a system of user verification that requires anyone who signs up (registers) to provide an email address, and then click a link sent to them to 'activate' their account. In this tutorial, we'll cover the basic logic and creation of such a system using PHP and MySQL. At the end, we'll have a working activation system and we'll have learned a little bit about web programming along the way!

Posted by Will - January 20th '20

Install Killer AX1650 Drivers and Get WiFi with only a Debian Netinstaller

Install Killer AX1650 Drivers and Get WiFi with only a Debian Netinstaller

In this tutorial, we'll cover manually installing the wifi drivers for the Killer AX1650 network card which do NOT come prepackaged with on the Debain Netinstaller. To do this, we'll need another machine with an internet connection that's running the same Linux kernel we're trying to install. We'll learn a little about Linux networking along the way!

Posted by Will - December 30th '19

Using apache's htaccess to Lock a Directory

Using apache's htaccess to Lock a Directory

Tutorial: Quickly setup a password protected directory served by Apache with htaccess!

Posted by Will - December 23rd '19