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I’ve been moving some big files lately with Chia and with each one of the files being over 100GB, it’s hard to use the sudo mv command and then see a blank screen. We’re going to be installing progress, a super simple command-line tool that allows you to view the status of any file transfer … Read more

Sometimes directories can be long. Like really long. For example, working with Chia lately and their binaries are located in /usr/lib/chia-blockchain/resources/app.asar.unpacked/daemon/ to get the their chia command. A symbolic link in Linux (sometimes called a symlink) is a link that points to another directory on the system. This can help shorten the amount of typing … Read more

Samba is great to use across different platforms like Windows, MacOS, or Linux. It helps share files so users with different operating systems can access those files. Setting up Samba requires the samba package to be installed along with a text editor like nano or vi. Setup from the command line can be done by … Read more

If you have created a new VD using a disk or group of disks that were previously partitioned, you may see a message like this when you try to initialize the virtual disk for LVM. pvcreate /dev/sddDevice /dev/sdd excluded by a filter. If filter is correct (/etc/lvm/lvm.conf) and old partition table information found on the … Read more

Not too long ago, I learned about the magic of the screen command in Linux. It has saved countless hours of staring at progress bars (or lack thereof) in the terminal window. The screen command tool is used for running commands in Linux and then exiting the same open terminal to run those commands in … Read more

Sometimes it can be hard to track down a DHCP lease with a GUI. Powershell is awesome, but there’s such a learning curve, so posting this here in hopes it helps someone one day save some time. The gist is that you need to search for a MAC address and you don’t want to go … Read more

Leading up to today, we have blended the internet with things in our life digitally with websites, digital media, and an online presence. Mixing in the physical layer starts a new era and is today’s question: just what is the internet of things? The internet of things is the connectedness of physical objects around the … Read more

When you need to redirect all requests from a www domain over to your non-www domain, it needs to be done on the .htaccess file. You can use this www-to-nonwww redirect generator to create the code. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ RewriteRule (.*) https://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] </IfModule> Siteground makes www redirects easy If you … Read more

Sometimes when you need a quick speed test, using command line can be the fastest. It will take the overhead of anything like HTML, CSS, or Javascript out of the equation. Follow these simple steps to install the speedtest.net command line tool into your version of Linux. Linux Speed Test Steps from Command Line sudo … Read more