A text-based web browser not only displays the text content of a website but it also results in faster loading and minimum usage of bandwidth which is great for low bandwidth connections. Top Text-based Web Browsers There are many kinds…
In this tutorial we’ll teach you how to install GIMP on Linux! GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, which is a cross-platform powerful image editor. It is a great if not the best image editor in the Linux world.…
In this module, we’ll learn to use the VIM plug to install plugins. Vim is one of the best text editors out there. It is very mature, efficient, and extensible. It offers a wide range of editing options and commands…
Let’s learn to use the Libcurl module to fetch web pages. C is a very complicated language and if you have ever worked with Sockets in C, you know that dealing with network connection can sometimes be a nightmare. In…
Whiptail is tool which lets you display dialog boxes from shell scripts. This makes your shell scripts look look cooler and more professional while still providing extensive functionality. In this module, we are going to learn how to use Whiptail…
The vim text editor is one of the most popular terminal-based editors. Its richness of commands and flexibility allows users to code at the speed of thought. Vim provides many commands that sometimes have overlapping functionalities. These functionalities are not…
In this article we discuss the function and usage of the chroot command in Linux with examples. What is the chroot command? The chroot command changes the apparent root directory of the current process as well as its child processes.…
In this tutorial we’ll install LetsEncrypt on Nginx web server on a Debian machine. What is LetsEncrypt? LetsEncrypt is a not-for-profit certificate authority providing digital certificates for secure connections enabling HTTPS for websites and services. Certificates can be automatically obtained,…
Sometimes, we need a quick HTTP server, either for testing purposes or transferring files. Setting up an Apache server might prove to be too much work for something trivial. Thus it is really handy to have a bunch of one…
A zip bomb, also known as a decompression bomb or zip of death is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. It is one of the oldest “malicious files” going around…