While Microsoft has improved the Windows Defender to a great extent, your system is still not impermeable to viruses. The worst case is when the virus takes over your system, and you can’t boot it up. When this happens, you may want to use a live Linux distro to remove the Windows viruses. This tutorial … Read more
A Pi-Hole is a network-wide ad blocker that intercepts ads on any device on your network. It targets a list of thousands of ad-serving domains and directs their content to a black hole, removing them from sight. It can work any any device that’s connected to your network, without additional software. It even runs in … Read more
There are a number of hidden files tucked away in your home directory. If you run macOS or a popular Linux distribution, you’ll see the “.bashrc” file near the top of your hidden files. This guide explains what the .bashrc file does and why you should edit and customize it. Content What Is .bashrc? How … Read more
Tar.gz is one of the most common file compression formats in Linux today. Unlike ZIP, RAR and 7ZIP, it is a combination of two different file formats: TAR and GZIP. This tutorial shows how to unzip a tar.gz file using both graphical and command tools that are already a part of your Linux distribution. Content … Read more
Whether it’s for an SSH Ubuntu server or because your mouse stopped working, learning how to use Linux shutdown commands on the command line works wonders for everybody. Here we show you how to master the shutdown command to quickly shut down your PC. Content What’s a Shutdown Command? How to Use Shutdown Commands 1. … Read more
File restoration utilities are one of the most important programs in a Linux administrator’s toolkit. They provide the ability to recover deleted files, even in cases where the disk is either physically damaged or wiped clean. This guide shows seven simple file recovery tools that you can install right now on Linux. We also show … Read more
The GNU Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is a powerful and flexible utility that links your motherboard’s BIOS to your operating system’s kernel. It works by loading a small program in your motherboard’s memory, which it uses to bootstrap a larger multiboot binary. However, there are instances where GNU GRUB fails to load your operating system’s … Read more
If you have accepted the default option of using the entire disk while installing Ubuntu, or if your computer came with Ubuntu preinstalled, you are likely to have a Home folder in the same partition as all of your system files. Under any normal circumstances, this would be fine. However, if you want to reinstall … Read more
Steganography is the art and process of putting one type of information inside another in an attempt to hide it. This is often done in situations where an individual wants to preserve secret information inside normal objects. This guide shows five of the best steganography tools currently available in Linux. It also shows you how … Read more
If you are using a Solid State Drive (SSD), you should know that you shouldn’t run any defragmentation or free space consolidation software on it. So how do you clean up your SSD and free up the empty space? TRIM is the command we use to inform the OS to do the cleaning job. Windows … Read more