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Mac OS X Users and Groups Primer Tutorial

Underpinning a Mac OS X MacBook Pro laptop’s workings is a Linux or Unix-like BSD operating system. This operating system, like a lot of others, uses files that have permissions and ownership. If you have file permissions they are for … Continue reading

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Mac Finder Copy Paste Move Rename Tutorial

We’ve said before how similar and similarly useful are the Windows Explorer and Mac (OS X) Finder desktop applications on a desktop or laptop computer, when we presented Mac Finder and Windows Explorer Primer Tutorial all that time ago. So, … Continue reading

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Crontab Web Server Housekeeping Primer Tutorial

We really love to use batch processes and Linux or Unix crontab methods to do things. Guess maybe a lot of people of a certain age … cough, cough … feel quite comfortable around the bigger computer items like web … Continue reading

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PHP Port Process Primer Tutorial

When there is a concept that somehow links hardware to software things fall into place better for me, personally, with understanding. For me, this is because hardware is that interesting thing out there that is more unknown, and so much … Continue reading

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Linux Disk Usage Statistics Primer Tutorial

There are occasions when using a Linux or Unix operating system when it is gobsmacking how a two letter command can do so much. And so it is the case with our use of the “du” to display disk usage … Continue reading

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Ansible Dynamic Inventory Tutorial

The last time we talked about Ansible (and we want to also direct you to a great article called Ansible tutorial – Automate your systems – Like Geeks, thanks) we advised you to read about the subject “Dynamic Inventory”. This … Continue reading

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Ansible Inventory Primer Tutorial

The last time we talked about Ansible (with Ansible Playbook TLS Tutorial is shown below) we advised to read about the subject “Inventory”. Well, today, we dip our toes into this big subject matter, and thank very much “Ansible Up … Continue reading

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Linux Inode Primer Tutorial

When you learn Unix or Linux you are taught that a lot of things about how the operating system works are about files. And with Unix and Linux those files can often be (further) referenced via a number called an … Continue reading

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