There are lots of online tools for checking your ISP provided internet speed. Most are web based interfaces and there are some great ones out there. The most popular is probably www.speedtest.net, but we also have www.fast.com, www.speedof.me, … even Google let’s you do it directly from its search page (you have to search using US-based…
Continue reading →This quick guide will show you how to run a command in an SSH session and allow you to disconnect and leave the command to keep running. I use this frequently for running my backups to external drives so that I can kick them off then shut down my laptop instead of leaving it running…
Continue reading →NFS allows you to use keys to log into your SSH sessions. This is much easier and more secure than remembering a password. You can set this up really easily by doing the following… First we need to generate a SSH key. Let’s use the putty keygen tool to do that. You can download it…
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