Java is one of those programming languages that are extremely popular wherever you go in the world. They are good to go if you want to develop websites, computer programs, mobile applications, and so on. Moreover, learning Java makes it…
Due to its open-source and customizable nature, Linux has become very popular in a lot of fields, including engineering. Indeed, Benson Hougland, marketing VP of manufacturing company Opto 22, attests that one of the primary drivers of the rise of…
The chmod (change mode) command in Linux is used to change the access mode of a file, based on the type of user accessing the file and the type of permission associated with accessing the file. File Permissions and User…
PING (Packet INternet Groper) is a network administration utility used to check the connectivity status between a source and a destination computer/device over an IP network. It also helps you assess the time it takes to send and receive a…
In this article, we’ll look at how we can install the Laravel framework on our Ubuntu system in just a few steps! Let’s get started. Laravel is a free and open-source PHP web application framework that is used to build…
NOTE: Before reading this article, I would like to inform you that the ifconfig command is outdated, and is not recommended anymore. The ip command is the current replacement for the ifconfig command. Even though this program may be outdated,…
The hosts’ file is an extremely useful albeit small text file that stores host names with associated IP addresses. It is basically a mapping from hostnames to IP addresses. Any network protocol uses this mapping to convert hostnames to numeric…
CouchDB is a free and open-source fault-tolerant database made and maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. It is a very good choice for a NoSQL type database, where you do not want a relational database. In this tutorial, we shall…
A DNS cache (sometimes called a DNS resolver cache) is a temporary database, maintained by a computer’s operating system, that contains records of all the recent visits and attempted visits to websites and other internet domains. You may want to…
The kill command in Linux is used to send a signal to a process or a group of processes. The name, unfortunately, chosen as kill, instead of signal, does not need to necessarily kill a process. As we will see,…