Linux

So I installed the latest version of Kali Linux from USB into my RAZER Blade 2016 laptop. Took a while as it seems after 5 years on non-stop use and abuse, this laptop is finally slowing down. Oh yes, touchpad was disabled the whole time I was installing but keyboard …

This post attempts to fix that problem by installing required packages to run the make command, install noip2 binary, fix file permissions if missing, create an init.d script for service command, create a systemd file so that we can control it via systemd and finally enable it via systemctl.

Ever had that issue when you login to a Linux terminal, editing a file and the texts are just blue and you can’t read? I’ve had way too many cause default vim/vi config is just bad. I created a good .vimrc config file. Simply create a file with .vimrc name …

Cloud images are operating system templates and every instance starts out as an identical clone of every other instance. It is the user data that gives every cloud instance its personality and cloud-init is the tool that applies user data to your instances automatically. Cloud-init is the defacto multi-distribution package …

Ran into an interesting question today while trying to debug a problem with a monitoring tool, what was the exact installation date of Linux system on this server? I mean this is something you don’t try to find everyday and for a second I was like … yeah… i don’t …