Amit Agarwal

How to improve download speeds during system updates by adjusting the max_parallel_downloads setting in DNF.

In Linux systems, disk space management is crucial, especially when storage is running low. One often-overlooked aspect is the space reserved by the filesystem, known as reserved blocks. These blocks …

Alex was a bright developer. Fresh out of college and eager to make a mark, he landed a job at a promising tech startup. His first major project: build a new web application for the company’s …

If you do not want to subscribe to any newsletter but still want to get some news delivered to you inbox then this post is for you. First you need to get a script that can pull the hacker-news …

MSC files are snap-in control files that are associated with the Microsoft Management Console on Windows machines to run administrative tasks. Here is a list of msc files that you can find in Windows. …

Most of the Social sites will shorten the links. There are a lot of ways to check the url before you go to the url and get phished :) For example, for bitly you can just add a ‘+’ at the …

I was looking at writing some output to files. The output did not vary much but the number of lines was huge. It was long time back so I dont remember the context of the requirement but I needed to …

I started thinking about Mobile pentesting sometime back. Finally in Feb/2024, I paid for the yearly subscription for INE and added eMAPT to my cart. If you dont know about eMAPT cert, then head over …

Found x11docker project in github. This is a very nice project if you are trying to run GUI applications in dockers. It takes the hassle out and helps you run the GUI applications very easily in …

You can see the local IP of the machine with the command - ip a. However if you have to use the address in some variable in a scrit. It becomes little tricky, something like […] and the command …

Many times you get openvpn file and when you want to connect to the VPN server, you have to start the vpn client from the cli. How you wish that this was added to NetworkManager so that you could …

When importing ova and/or ovf files, if Workstation does not give any error but does not import the file as well, try importing the file in VMWare Player. When you do that, you will see that if the …