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Here at System Code Geeks we know how much you love books about system administration; we are geeks ourselves. After all, a geek that respects himself should always have his face in a book, he has to keep up with the latest technologies and developments. For this reason, we have decided to distribute 6 of our books for free. You ...

FFmpeg is a great command-line tool for dealing with audio and video files. Here are some useful commands: 1. Reduce the size of a file Try passing the file straight through ffmpeg and check if the size reduces: 1 ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp4 To reduce the size further, scale the video to half the width and height: 1 ffmpeg -i ...

Using docker in Windows is a bit like discovering that someone’s missed a vital memo. Everything nearly works as you might hope, but there are glitches all over the place. I use bash as my shell for scripting various things we do with docker in Windows. This leads to two enormously annoying issues: I’ve found it very difficult to mount ...

 While you’ve seen the many developer tooling articles where I’ve helped you to get started on the OpenShift Container Platform, there is still a basic need to run our tooling locally on our own machine. With that in mind, here’s an update that installs the latest version of open source process automation tooling for your development projects in just minutes ...

While you’ve seen the many developer tooling articles where I’ve helped you to get started on the OpenShift Container Platform, there is still a basic need to run our tooling locally on our own machine. With that in mind, here’s an update that installs the latest version of open source decision management tooling for your development projects in just minutes ...

Yum is a package manager used on Red Hat, CentOS, and other Linux distributions that use RPM Package Manager. Yum is used to install, update, delete, or otherwise manipulate the packages installed on these Linux systems. In this tutorial, we will cover the yum update command – what it is, how to use it, and all the different commands you ...

Writing a research paper is a huge task in itself. When you think about how easy it is for other people to copy or plagiarize the paper you worked hard on, this should encourage you to learn how to protect your research papers and other documents on your Linux computer. To do this, you should improve network security and even ...

Some weeks ago, I gave a workshop about Ansible and I was asked how to set up a local test environment for Ansible. Requirement is that this test environment can run on a Windows 10 without a Linux subsystem. I don’t why, but it was not my first customer where Windows 10 could not be used with Linux subsystem (Don’t ...

Hackers can access, steal and sell your online activity data as well as manipulate it if you don’t use the right system and tools. The level of protection you want will largely influence which tools and systems to use. With a Linux system and VPN, it becomes possible to hide your browsing tracks, personal information, and various other online activities. ...

 While you’ve seen the many developer tooling articles where I’ve helped you to get started on the OpenShift Container Platform, there is still a basic need to run our tooling locally on our own machine. With that in mind, here’s an update that installs the latest process automation tooling for your development projects in just minutes on your very own ...