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Using AZCopy with an Azure WebApp

Feb 23, 2022 · 2 min read · microsoft azure app-service linux ·

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How to copy data from a Azure Linux Web App using Microsoft’s AZCopy utility.
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OMIGOD Patching

Sep 20, 2021 · 1 min read · microsoft azure linux ubuntu ·

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A 30 second guide to manually patching the OMIGOD vulnerability (September 2021) in Azure-hosted Linux Virtual Machines.
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Photon, Photon, Photon

Oct 19, 2016 · 1 min read · vmware photon linux ·

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VMware’s cloud-native application stack is here, and it uses several things called “Photon”. In this quick post, I’ll have a look at what’s what in the stack and how the components of this container-optimised enterprise cloud platform fit together.
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New Media Centre Part 2

Jun 21, 2012 · 2 min read · xbmc linux ·

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Following on from New Media Centre Part 1 where I put the hardware together it was time to move onto installing the software- XBMC.
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How many copies of my application are running?

May 6, 2011 · 1 min read · linux ·

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A quick line of code for displaying how many copies of an application are running on a Linux platform: 1ps -ef | grep myapplicationname | wc -l | awk ' { print $1-1 } '

Webpage to Monitor CPU usage on a linux box.

May 5, 2011 · 2 min read · linux ·

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This cgi script allows you to post a webpage on your multi-processor Linux server which shows the current CPU usage. Useful if you want to quickly and easily check the load on the system and see if multi-processor applications are spreading themselves across the available cores.
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Updates for Fedora Core 2

May 3, 2011 · 1 min read · linux fedora ·

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I have an old (virtual) server which, for various support and compatibility reasons, is still running Fedora Core 2 Linux, released back in 2005. Despite this being an old, unsupported, version of the OS I wanted it to be as up-to-date as possible, and this is how I went about it.
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Checking the current Fedora Version

Apr 14, 2011 · 1 min read · linux fedora ·

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Logged into a Fedora linux box via a command line? Want to know what version of Fedora it’s running?
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Using Cron to automate a Rsync backup job

Feb 21, 2011 · 2 min read · linux ·

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The rsync tool in Linux is very useful for backing up files from one machine to another, and coupled with the Cron scheduling tool it can be used to make a simple yet efficient automated backup. This post outlines how. Authenticating with the remote system It is necessary to save your credentials on the remote system, …