Recovering data painlessly from a friend’s drive
The other day one of my friends was all gloomy saying that he had lost a 4TB drive due to a PSU power failure, so I offered him my help to try to recover his data....
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Babun: the ultimate Unix-like shell for Windows
In a past article I spoke about how to get a Unix experience on Windows using Cygwin, which is up to day the most complete solution. Today however I’d like to introduce you to Babun (pronounced...
Fdisk the good old way to manage MBR disks
Managing disks is a common and fundamental skill for every system administrator, and knowing a bit more (rather than a bit less) about CLI tools surely will come in handy in many occasions.
DNF, Fedora’s new Package Manager
The currrent Package Manager for Fedora, CentOS and RHEL is YUM. Not for long. With the release of Fedora 22 (on 26th May 2015) YUM will be replaced by DNF. What will change? What are the...
How to get a Unix experience on Windows with Cygwin
This is one question I get rarely, however it is easily answered so I decided to write a short post about it. If you really can’t avoid using Windows, and you have 10 good reasons to...
Yum basics
Whether you are an experienced user or a new one approaching to a Red Hat distribution, you’ll sooner or later hear of YUM. YUM is Red Hat systems’ default package manager, much like APT for Ubuntu...
How to run Fedora 21 on HP Touchsmart tm2-2101sl
I’ve always liked hybrid tablets, the ones with both a keyboard and a rotating screen. About three years ago I bought the one I’m still using today: a HP Touchsmart tm2-2101sl, excited of the new release...
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