Gmail is undoubtedly one of the most popular web-based email services today. One of the key factors that make Gmail so popular is its ease of use, which in turn is largely due to its user-friendly design and layout. While most of Gmail's features are easily accessible, the ability to save an email (or an ... Read more
There are cases when you need to switch between two applications in your work. For example, a common use case is reading commands/instructions from a web page opened in a web browser and trying them out in a command-line terminal. I'm sure many of you are used to the Alt+Tab method of switching between application ... Read more
If you want to turn off the Windows Firewall, there are several ways to do that. In this article, I'll show you the three easiest methods. One is using the GUI which is the method that takes the most time, the other two methods are faster and use PowerShell and command prompt. Turning Off Firewall ... Read more
Most Linux servers are administered on the command line e.g. through an SSH connection. In the following tutorial, I will explain several shell commands that make it easy to view log files on the Linux command line (shell). These commands will work on all major Linux distributions incl. AlmaLinux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, RockyLinux, and Ubuntu. ... Read more
There are two methods for mapping a shared folder to a network drive (using GUI and group policy) in Windows. I am focusing on the latter method of using a group policy. I assume you have already shared a folder with the right permissions. You can check my recent article on setting correct permissions for ... Read more
The Linux make command is used to build and compile applications from source code, as it also builds and compiles source code dependencies using a "makefile". As a Linux user, you can use the make program to compile utilities and install them from the command line. However, sometimes users receive the error message "make: command ... Read more
You may know how to change the IP address via the GUI. It's pretty simple. Just go to Control Panel > Network and Internet, select the IPv4 properties and change the IP address. The whole process takes about a minute. But what if you have to do this on multiple systems and repeat all these ... Read more
Powershell scripts can be run on any Windows server or desktop as long as they are run from the ISE by pushing the green play button. As soon as you want to run it from the cmd or the desktop file you'll get this error: script1.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on ... Read more
Echo is a built-in Linux command-line utility that is used on standard output to display an argument i.e text or string. It is most generally used to display status text to the screen in batch files and shell scripts or used as a source part of a pipeline. You have seen or used it frequently ... Read more
OpenSSL Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit is an open-source, full-featured package used in Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocols to provide secure communication between client and server. This commercial-grade and robust toolkit is widely used by various programs like PHP, Internet servers, comprising the majority of HTTPS websites. Most Linux distributions come ... Read more