dispelling misconceptions about static linking

Under Linux, the dd command can be used for simple sequential I/O performance measurements. This article will provide valuable information about which parameters should be used.

xargs passes the argument once to the utility command specified. For example, xargs cat will cat every line passed to xargs. But how to use the xargs argument twice in the command on Linux?

Regular expressions are great at matching. It's easy to formulate a regex using what you want to match. Stating a regex in terms of what you don't want to match is a bit harder.

This small site is oriented to developers learning golang that want to see the unexpected, at least for a newcomer, behaviors in the language.

There you are, happily playing around with an audio file you’ve spent all afternoon tweaking, and you’re thinking, “Wow, doesn’t it sound great? Lemme just move it over here.” At that point your subconscious chimes in, “Um, you meant mv, not rm, right?” Oops. I feel your pain — this happens to everyone. But there’s a straightforward method to recover your lost file, and since it works on every standard Linux system, everyone ought to know how to do it.

There are several ways of logging into a server over SSH. Methods include password login, key-based login and two-factor authentication.
Two-factor authentication is a much better type of protection. In the event that your computer gets compromised, the attacker would still need an access code to login.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up two-factor authentication on Debian 9 using Google Authenticator and SSH.

A couple years back we wrote a guide on how to create good OpenPGP/GnuPG keys and now it is time to write a guide on SSH keys for much of the same reasons: SSH key algorithms have evolved in past years and the keys generated by the default OpenSSH settings a few years ago are no longer considered state-of-the-art. This guide is intended both for those completely new to SSH and to those who have already been using it for years and who want to make sure they are following the latest best practices.

Copyright is automatic (since the Berne convention) and any work of authorship is automatically protected by it – essentially giving the copyright holder1 exclusive power over its work. In order for your downstream to have the rights to use any of your work – be that code, text, images or other media – you need to give them a license to it.

Configure which identity-file to use host-wide without further arguments

The only annoyance was that Thunderbird only ever synced my main Inbox folder, not all subfolders. So I had to go through them manually to check for new email.