Category Archives: Operating System

An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs ( Wikipedia )

Ansible Playbook TLS Tutorial

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Yesterday saw this blog’s first Ansible Playbook to create an nginx web server on a VirtualBox virtual machine referenced by http://localhost:8080 but, did you notice, that https://localhost:8443 came up with, in Firefox, at least … Secure Connection Failed The connection … Continue reading →

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Ansible Playbook Primer Tutorial

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As a programmer, as time goes on, I get the creeping feeling that more is being asked of our job description. Pretty sure am not alone, and hope world employment is not going to be too hard hit by similar … Continue reading →

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Ansible Hello World Primer Tutorial

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The role of a programmer is expanding into deployment with software tools such as Ansible, because it has the capability of making the piloting of automation systems “approachable” as an “art”. Why would you want to “pilot an automation system”? … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X and iOS Messages Primer Tutorial

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You have some photos taken with your Camera app on your iPad. You like to save such photos on your MacBook Pro. That is the setting for today’s thoughts in the series of “Mac OS X and iOS Communication” themed … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X and iOS FaceTime Primer Tutorial

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We happen to own a MacBook Pro laptop (circa 2011 … which pans out to be significantly “old” for a later blog post) and an iPad. As you’d expect, there are benefits to having two Apple products like this, and … Continue reading →

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Client Pre-emptive Iframe Crontab Curl Rotated Report Tutorial

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If you look after a web server, especially an Apache one, and you use a tool like cPanel to manage it, you’ll probably have come across a withering number of reporting decisions you can decide to tweak the default parameters … Continue reading →

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Linux Backup via rsync and PHP Exec Tutorial

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PHP, being the server side language that it is, has access to a lot of what its operating system provides as functionality via its exec method. Please don’t think everything will work though, and more elegant things you find happening … Continue reading →

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Linux Remote Backup via rsync Tutorial

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A couple of days ago, with Linux Backup via rsync Primer Tutorial as shown below, we used the Linux command “rsync” backup a local disk to a removable disk on a MacBook Pro laptop using a USB connected Seagate Backup … Continue reading →

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