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Cyndi: My open source story — Linux, the loyal friend

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How to remove a stuck kernel from GRUB

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What USB device is that?

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How to selectively apply updates

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Straight quotes from pandoc

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Viewing PDF documents in console mode

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AI Terror: The struggle to stay alive

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Loving the command line with the Raspberry Pi

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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 21—There is no should

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GRUB Kernel Linux

How to remove a stuck kernel from GRUB

Here’s how to fix the GRUB menu configuration from the command line.

Jim Hall
June 12, 2025June 4, 2025
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Fixing problems I really borked it this time Problem Solving System Administration

My first sysadmin mistake

If you work in IT, you know that things never go completely as you think they will. At some point, you’ll hit an error, or...

Jim Hall
May 29, 2025May 27, 2025
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Hardware Linux Problem Solving

The case of the Borked HDD

It all started this morning when I went to start my regular Saturday yoga session. I have a room at home that has all my...

David Both
May 3, 2025May 3, 2025
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Linux System Administration Tools

Using htop to manage your Linux system

I use a lot of tools in my daily SysAdmin role. One of the most important ones in my toolkit is htop. The htop program...

David Both
January 6, 2025January 2, 2025
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Problem Solving Programming

A little programming goes a long way

It helps to know some programming to solve these little problems.

Jim Hall
May 21, 2024May 19, 2024
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Command Line Fixing problems Linux

How to use udev

Udev is flexible but complex. Learn how to use udev so you can customize how Linux recognizes your devices.

Seth Kenlon
April 18, 2024April 12, 2024
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Fixing problems Web Server

How to debug a web server error with ‘wget’

The wget command line tool can provide detailed information about what’s happening on a web server.

Jim Hall
April 10, 2024April 5, 2024
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Linux systemd

systemd — #12: Fixing systemd-resolved name service failures using Ansible

Name resolution and the ever-changing networking landscape.

David Both
March 1, 2024September 11, 2024
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Linux System Administration systemd

systemd — #10: Analyze Linux startup performance

Use systemd-analyze to get insights and solve problems with Linux startup performance.

David Both
February 23, 2024February 23, 2024
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Linux systemd Tools

systemd — #9: Using systemd journals to troubleshoot transient problems

Find the root cause of hard-to-track errors by diving into your systemd journals.

David Both
February 22, 2024January 21, 2025
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Linux systemd

systemd — #4: How to use systemd as a troubleshooting tool

systemd is powerful troubleshooting tool. The information we can extract from it points the way toward solving problems.

David Both
February 8, 2024February 8, 2024
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systemd

How I used journalctl to Determine the Source of an Electrical Problem

The journalctl command can extract interesting data from the systemd journals. I never thought it could help with hardware electrical problems – until I tried it.

David Both
January 9, 2024January 4, 2024
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Fixing problems Linux

Liquid Cooling Failure

Modern motherboards make a cooling failure less catastrophic than it could have been.

David Both
January 7, 2024January 3, 2024
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Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.

— Laws of Computer Programming

“systemd for SysAdmins” Now Available

May 13,2025

My latest book — a #1 New Release on Amazon — “systemd for Linux  SysAdmins” is now available from my publisher, Apress, and on Amazon.

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