NCDU is a text-based user interface, it allows you to visually see how and where disk space is being used via an easy-to-use interface. Simple run the command in the current directory to see a directory tree of folders & files and their space usage. I use this tool mainly for analysing why a server
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Came across the need to perform maintenance on a MySQL database which holds millions of records, we needed to remove all data which was 2+ years old which involved deleting around 530 million records from a very large table, hitting nearly 200GB.
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A client was having issues sending emails and receiving a number of alerts regarding delayed emails. After looking investigating a number of outbound emails where queued with a failure reason of
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Having problems keeping your server time in sync? or a project requiring accurate timing? If your using a Amazon EC2 instance you can swap to using Chrony and Amazon Time Sync using the below commands.
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Manage your system better with the ability to kill processes on Linux easily with killall command, kill those unwanted processes freeing valuable resources.
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Easily backup a windows based MySQL server using a scheduled bat file, including archiving and removal of older backups.
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Need an easy way to allow external network users to access services or websites on your local machine? ngrok allows you to easily create a secure tunnel from ngroks servers to your machine. For a web developer, this is a dream come true, this is a great way to demo a development whilst in the
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Today I was asked by a client how they open a .Pages files using a windows. Their computer didn’t recognise the file. What is a .PAGES file? A .PAGES file is an archive technology created by Apple for use on its Mac OS, it is very similar to .zip files. They are normally created when
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Combine multiple files into a single file is very simple on Windows as long as the files you are wanting to combine are text (binary). Its not possible to merge multiple images, videos and other none binary related content using this method. Here is the Command Prompt (cmd) command we will be using to achieve
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Google is one of the biggest search engines with billions of pages, you enter in some keywords and it will find related pages. Google has some advanced search commands which allow you to refine your search results, I will be showing you how to refine your search results down to just blogs which you have
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