February 2019 – Vassox

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…

February 27, 2019

Installing Centos 7 on an HP ML350 G5 This post is getting an unusual amount of traffic…it seems that the ML350 G5 (or its…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…