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Linux generally boots extremely fast. If you find yourself waiting two minutes or so for your Linux box to boot, you probably have a disk error.

Configure Linux Mint 21-22 to scroll when middle button mouse wheel is clicked.

How to route IP traffic to a certain range of IP addresses to a particular network interface

How to enable or disable a network interface in Linux

Define a file-type by extension in Linux and set a preferred application associated with it.

The fix for persistent screen dimness (loss of brightness) on Lenovo P500 IdeaPad laptops.

How to kill a process in Linux

How to simple password-protect areas of a website with auth_basic NGINX-integral first line of defense.

How to mount a Google Drive in Linux Mint / Ubuntu.

How to verify files and certificates using hashes, CRC checksums, signatures, and fingerprints

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To unzip a .sql.gz file directly into a mysql database: gunzip < exampledb_backup.sql.gz | mysql -uexampledb_user -pexampledb_password exampledb

In linux to show all non-system users: awk -F'/:' '{if ($3 >= 1000 && $3 != 65534) print $1}' /etc/passwd

Add a new user to Linux: adduser username

How to install the NGINX HTTP server in Ubuntu Linux

How to install and run the Drush command registry-rebuild.

Ypage uses stock Drupal 7 content and taxonomy fields to integrate content and taxonomy together in website navigation and presentation.

SSL, secure HTTP, and certificates

If you are doing local development and using no SSL transport or your own self-signed certificates, you may not be allowed to view your development sites.

How to install, remove, and list packages using Arch / Manjaro Linux pacman package manager.

How to mount the CD ROM in Linux to make it accessible.

How to set up Host-network for Host / Guest communication and simultaneously route Guest communications to Internet through Host assuming Manjaro / Arch Linux Host and Ubuntu Guest.

How to enable time server sync in Manjaro / Arch Linux if it is not enabled.

How to install the NGINX webserver in Arch Linux

How to install the Mariadb (mysql SQL database manager) in Arch Linux

How to make the function keys work on Keychron mechanical keyboards.

How to resolve the packages kept back message.

How to make a Y callback plugin for YAD7 Drupal-7.

Add a remote to a Git repository

How to make a bootable USB stick from an ISO file using the Linux command-line

Use tar to create and extract compressed .tar.gz archive files

How to override the final presentation / formatting of a form using a Layout.

How to create and invoke a Voom plugin.

Most of the available guides show how to increase the swap filesize in Linux, by building a larger file initialized to zeros.

This shows how to reduce the existing swap file without writing a whole new file with zeros.

Some concepts to implement MYSQL security in a LEMP server.

Periodically, you will scratch your head and ask the perpetual questions: Am I using Bionic Beaver, Xenial Xebec, Risky Rhesus? Ubuntu? Debian? Which kernel? OMG?

This article tells how to figure out the parameters of your Linux system.

How to install Drush for Drupal 7 / YAD7 without using Composer

How to configure Linux to offer boot-time hard-drive backup option.

Y assumes YAML files will be eponymous by default. Occasionally, it makes more sense to put multiple config definitions in one non-eponymous file.

Non-eponymous config files are designated using the _meta meta information block.