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Linux & MySQL/MariaDB
It’s interesting because I have always been drawn to understanding the big picture of things, and back when I first shifted to IT, I was intrigued with working with databases (and left me feeling dissatisfied with solely front-end stuff). I’m circling back to that, now, as I continue my Linux journey, and I find myself…
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Compression: Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, Compress
Given two files, sample1.txt and sample1.sh, that I want to archive, which means combining files together (different than compressing them): $ tar -csv ThisIsACompressedTarFile.tar sample1.txt sample1.sh This gives us: We can peek into the Tar file without extracting the files using -t option We can extract those files using the -x (extract) switch: Now that…
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NAT on a wireless router
I’m liking Cisco’s Packet Tracer tool- there’s a huge difference between learning these concepts in a book or by watching a video, and actually (virtually) configuring a wireless router and being able to create a simulation where packets flow between a client and a public IP server. In one of today’s exercises, I ran that…
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On Secure World Conference
I had the privilege of attending the Secure World security conference these past two days, and really enjoyed it. Maybe it’s the vestiges of the pandemic, but I initially found myself feeling somewhat reluctant to be in such a large event, but I found people to be generally really approachable and friendly. I decided to…
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