Anyone in the docker group can effectively become root because the Docker daemon runs as root and obeys commands sent through its Unix socket. Podman takes a different approach by eliminating the central daemon and…
A server that waits two minutes for the network at every boot slows down every patch window. Here’s how to tune systemd-networkd, wait-online, and .link files to speed up boot times and improve network performance….
Most compose.yaml files slowly turn into long, copy-pasted blocks with fragile startup dependencies. Docker Compose includes several built-in features that can keep your stack cleaner, more reusable, and predictable. Imagine a small web stack with…
A Docker host can run reliably for months and still fill its disk overnight or expose a port to your firewall that should have been blocked. These 12 practical tips use docker system prune, daemon.json,…
For almost 30 years, if you were browsing the internet in Australia, the most prevalent websites you visited online would almost always be using .com, .com.au or .net.au. This is changing, as there’s a new…
pwd looks like one of the simplest Linux commands, but there are a few details worth knowing once symlinks and shell scripts enter the picture. In this guide, we’ll go through practical pwd examples, along…
So, you’re finally ready to register a domain for your Australian business or personal blog, and you’re stuck on the question: Should you go with a .com or a .au domain? This article will give…
GitHub Copilot CLI brings an AI coding agent directly into your terminal. This guide walks you through installing it on Linux, authenticating it, and running your first prompts, along with our SSH course and 100+…
ani-cli is a POSIX shell script that lets you search for anime, choose an episode, and stream it directly through mpv. It uses fzf to select titles and episodes and curl to fetch the required…
Patching a single Linux machine is easy. You run its update, reboot if the kernel changed, and you’re done. Patching a whole fleet of these machines? Same process, just repeated more often. Now, in a…
Most admins learn usermod -aG in their first week and never read much beyond it. But drop the -a once on a production box, and a developer can lose sudo, Docker, and every other supplementary…
It’s the worst. You’ve come up with the absolute perfect domain name, only to find out it’s already taken. And now you want to find out who the heck has the domain you want. Good…
Most sysadmins reach for chmod when they want to lock down a file. The problem is that chmod 000 only changes the file’s permission bits; root can still override them. That’s where chattr comes in….
Codex CLI is OpenAI’s coding agent that runs in your terminal, reads your files, and executes shell commands on your machine. In this guide, you’ll learn how to install it using curl or npm, sign…
The fact that you’ve clicked on this article makes me think you’re in the process of registering a new domain name and investigating what domain extension you should choose. If you’re investigating .co.nz domain names…
Plesk Obsidian 18.0.80 is here, and the focus of this release is AI-assisted server management. Plesk now supports MCP – Model Context Protocol, which makes it possible to manage a Plesk server through an AI…
Most sysadmins only use cat to dump a file and tail -f to watch logs. That leaves a lot of useful behavior untouched and a lot of time wasted scrolling through files that could be…
Linux command line has a lot of fun around itself and many tedious task can be performed very easily yet with perfection. Playing with words and characters, their frequency in a text file, etc is…