Windows 10 vs. Windows 10 S: What’s the difference?
Windows 10 isn’t the only version of the OS out there: There’s also Windows 10 S, a stripped-down version aimed at students and small businesses.
Windows 7 End of Life: everything you need to know
Windows 7 has now entered its End of Life phase, which means that Microsoft will no longer be offering updates of security fixes for the old operating system. While many people will have upgraded to years ago, there are still millions of PCs out there that are using Windows 7. With Windows 7 now at its End […]
Linux Now Powers Over 99 Percent of Top 500 Supercomputers in The World
While Windows is currently covering a large part of the desktop market, Linux is leading when it comes to supercomputers. The market share of Linux is now found to have more than 99 percent in the world of supercomputers across the globe. The data provided by Top500 reveals that 99.6 percent of supercomputers in the […]
32TB Source Code of Windows 10 Leaked
32TB source code from unreleased and private builds of Windows 10 as well as source sections related to USB, Storage and Wi-Fi drivers of Windows 10, leaked to the internet, which could lead to a massive exploitation of operating, Security researchers say. Mostly the leak concerns private builds of Windows 10 that are used by […]
Install Nginx + PHP FPM + Caching + MySQL on Ubuntu 12.04
Lot of people are going to use Plegmahost VPS as webservers, a good choice would be Nginx as a webserver. In this topic I’m going to describe on how to install Nginx, PHP FPM and MySQL. Also we’re going to look at Nginx’s caching feature. In this topic we’re using Ubuntu 12.04. First steps Make […]
Better Monitoring Tools For Ubuntu And CentOS
Linux systems ship with monitoring tools by default like top, df, and du that help monitor processes and disk space. Often times though, they are not very user/visual friendly. We’ll be setting up three friendlier versions of the previously mentioned tools (htop, ncdu, pydf) to help better monitor our VM instances. Installation On Debian/Ubuntu systems […]
How To Setup a Shoutcast Server on Ubuntu
With a Shoutcast server, you can setup your own radio station for others to listen. In this guide, I’ll teach you how to setup a Shoutcast server on Ubuntu. Follow the steps below. Step 1: Creating a user For security reasons, we’re going to create a new user: adduser shoutcast Enter the required information and su […]
Windows 10 Creators update loads up on features for IT
Microsoft announced a slew of goodies today for its upcoming Windows 10 Creators update, designed to please IT admins and simplify management of Windows 10 inside large enterprises. Microsoft has been trying to get enterprise companies — you know the ones with lots of users — to make the switch to Windows 10. They claim, even before […]
lftp Commands to Manage Files with Examples
Today we are going to install LFTP, which is a command line FTP client. LFTP supports many protocols in addition to FTP, such as HTTP, HTTPS, HFTP, FISH, FTPS and FXP. It supports mirroring directories and you can have commands entered in two modes. In LFTP command line shell or right from the bash shell. […]
Patching the Dirty Cow Exploit on CentOS
What is “Dirty Cow (CVE-2016-5195)”? The “Dirty Cow” vulnerability is exploited through how Linux processes code. It allows for an unprivileged user to gain root privileges. This can be used on any server with a vulnerable kernel. At the time of writing, there have been updates to certain operating systems, but others remain affected. The […]
