In this post, I show you two ways of installing and configuring nginx on Linux.
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A part of my job involves connecting to a couple of Amazon EC2 instances(Linux servers) regularly to run commands, build, debug and deploy code. All along I’ve been using tabs terminal tabs to keep track of each server connection and the processes running in it. Using the terminal emulator’s tabs feature works okay for simple …
Linux: How to increase video volume without re-encoding video
Pycon Africa 2020 took place on August 4 to 8 of 2020. I had the privilege of giving a talk at this conference. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to give my talk live, so I sent the organisers a recording of the talk that I had made a few days before. I hadn’t …
Check number of lines by user in git
Learn how to count the number of commits or number of lines a contributor has added to a git repository.
How to send desktop notifications in Linux.
Desktop notifications are used to inform the user about an event or display some form of information without getting in the user’s way. Notifications are usually small pop up windows that disappear after a short while. There are a number of ways to display notifications using Python, but most of these depend on some GUI …
How to find all files containing specific text in linux?
Recently, while working on a project, I needed to search if an image I intended to delete was in use anywhere else in the code. There were lot’s of text files to go through and I needed a quick way to tell whether or not it was safe to delete said image. I learned how …
How to untar files in Linux/Ubuntu
In Linux, a common file format is the tarball. A tarball is a compressed folder similar to a zip file. Most Linux distributions include a graphical archive manager that allows the user to extract and manage different types of archives. While GUI based packages are great, I prefer using the terminal to manipulate files. A …
How To Download Entire Websites Using wget.
An invaluable tool that I use a lot is wget. wget is a free terminal utility for downloading files from the Internet. I do not have a reliable Internet connection and when I do get online, I am usually on a metered network. Not being able to connect to the Internet when I want to …
How NOT to protect your wifi.
Everyone has a wifi network these days and this is good, as wifi networks make it easy to connect all our devices to the net wherever they may be. This of course leads to a question. How secure is your network? Most people seem to think that a passkey/password is enough to keep your network …
Windows Applications and Ubuntu
Windows Applications and Linux I’ts been a few days since i installed Ubuntu and all I can say is that I love it!! My knowledge base of the commands is growing fast and I’m beginning to understand how and why things are different on Linux.. There is one little problem however, like most people, when …