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I’m spending my time between Mac OS and Windows, and when I go back to my Windows machine I always feel the lack of my Mac command prompt. Almost a year ago Amir posted how you can get a nice command prompt on a Mac. I’ve always wanted a post like that, but for a Windows machine. Today I stumbled ...

In this post, we feature a comprehensive Linux sed Examples. Sed is basically a stream editor used for modifying files in unix or linux. It provides a nifty way to perform operations on files which can be passed around through pipes. Most people never learn its real power, they just simply use sed to replace text. You can do many ...

In this post, we feature a comprehensive Apache enable SSL / TLS Tutorial. This article is part of our Academy Course titled Apache HTTP Server Tutorial. In this course, we provide a compilation of Apache HTTP Server tutorials that will help you get started with this web server. We cover a wide range of topics, from installing the server and ...

Chef-Solo is an open source tool that runs locally and allows us to provision the guest machine using chef cookbooks without the complication of any chef client and server configuration. In this post, we will learn to execute a simple recipe which will create a file with some content inside /tmp directory using chef cookbook recipe. To start with, we will create ...

In this post, we feature a comprehensive Apache mod_rewrite example. This article is part of our Academy Course titled Apache HTTP Server Tutorial. In this course, we provide a compilation of Apache HTTP Server tutorials that will help you get started with this web server. We cover a wide range of topics, from installing the server and performing a basic ...

When you interact a lot with command line tools, such as : docker , docker-machine and docker-compose, command line completion (using the tab key) is a must. Let’s have a look at how to enable bash completion for those docker command line tools Mac user ? install bash-completion I suppose you already use brew on Mac to install additional packages; ...

Digikam is a very powerful and convenient KDE application to manage a photo collection (batch renaming, batch auto rotate, modification of geoexif, etc.). Thing is, Digikam is mainly targeted at Linux distributions; and I’m currently not using a Linux based OS (bad, bad, bad…); so I could follow along the official instructions, such as : get it from mac ports ...

I’ve been going through some old notes and came across a reminder of setrlimit(2). This is a C system call that allows an application to specify resource limitations on a number of important parameters: RLIMIT_AS – The maximum size of the process’s virtual memory (address space) in bytes. RLIMIT_CORE – Maximum size of core file. RLIMIT_CPU – CPU time limit ...

Of course we can manually download the modules from Puppet Forge and install it but it becomes messy as you have to manually maintain the dependencies between the modules which definitely makes your repository bigger than necessary. Already I briefed about librarian-puppet  in my Blog At Xebia, still to provide little more context, it manages the Puppet modules your infrastructure depends on, ...