Enabling and Disabling Swap Space on Centos 7 (Updated) February 28, 2019 In some instances swap is disabled by default – usually on lightweight VPS virtual machines. If you find processes being killed and are unable…
Installing Centos 7 / RedHat RHEL on an HP ML350 G5, DL360 G5 w / CCISS Raid Controllers February 27, 2019 Installing Centos 7 on an HP ML350 G5 (DL360 G5 as well) This post is getting an unusual amount of traffic…it seems that the…
Installing Youtube-dl on Redhat & Centos 7 (Works!) Updated* February 27, 2019 I use youtube-dl to pull content down to an emby server where i can watch things at my own leisure from any room in…
Installing FFmpeg February 26, 2019 FFmpeg is one of the best multimedia framework that can be used to encode, decode, transcode, mux, demux, record, stream, filter, and play any type…
blkid Command Reference February 26, 2019 The blkid program is the command-line interface to working with the libblkid library. It can determine the type of content (e.g. filesystem or swap)…
Installing the Net-tools Package on Redhat RHEL / Centos 7 February 25, 2019 The the network command line tool ifconfig is not installed thus missing by default on CentOS 7 Linux. Users are instead encouraged to use…
Installing VMware Tools on Centos 7 / RHEL / Ubuntu February 25, 2019 The VMware preferred installation method for the use of open-vm-tools Open-vm-tools is a set of an open source services and modules for VMware from…
Installing / Removing GUI on Centos 7, RedHat 7 (RHEL) Minimal Install and Enable Remote Desktop February 25, 2019 Typically I perform minimal installations when I install any distro of Linux. Occasionally, albeit very rarely – it can be useful to have access…
Installing DNF on Centos 7 / RHEL February 25, 2019 The people at Fedora developed DNF as a successor or next generation version of YUM. DNF does all of these and supposedly more. DNF…
Installing Phantomjs on Centos 7 / RHEL February 25, 2019 Phantomjs is a useful tool for crawling / and or replicating web pages. The notable difference here between using curl or wget, is that…