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Keeping Things Running: Mastering Background Processes in Linux

In the world of Linux, sometimes you need tasks to run indefinitely without hogging your terminal. This is where background processes come into play! They allow you to continue using your terminal while long-running operations quietly execute in the background. There are three primary ways to achieve this: 1. The…

AI conversational text model, ChatGPT, the end of Google?

The latest rage sweeping the Internet circa December 2022 is chatGPT, What is chatGPT? Here I’ll let it (chatGPT) answer that question itself (The paragraphs below were created with this chatbot) ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/chat ) is a cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. It is a variant of the popular GPT-3…

How to detect IP change and send email alert (bash & powershell)

A common thing folks that run any kind of home server, need to do, is detect when they’re IP addressed normally a DHCP assigned address via they’re Internet server provider changes, by doing this is allows them continue to communicate with they’re server. Below are a couple of script one…

Fix mount error(95): solved! Operation not supported SMB

Mounts SMB/CIFS shares with Linux It’s common practice to mount Windows file shares on Linux  using the SMB (Samba) implementation on Linux.  the command is fairly straight forward. # Install the required libraries if you haven’t done that yet sudo apt update sudo apt install cifs-utils #Next mount the folder…

Simple PHP math logic captcha – to help prevent form spam

Why a simple PHP Math Captcha ? If you’re reading this you’re probably aware there are a ton of on-line captcha services like Re-Captcha, hCaptcha ,to help keep your forms and user submitted input free of bot spam,  and other nonsense.  But most require registration with capthca service, setting up…