SharpDevelop (also styled as #develop) is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE) for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft’s .NET platform. To allow for easy project migration, SharpDevelop works natively with Visual Studio project and code files. It is able to compile applications for .NET Framework version 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0… Read More
WinDirStat is a free, open-source disk usage analyzer and cleanup software for Microsoft Windows. Mac OS X users should use Disk Inventory X or GrandPerspective alternatives. Linux users should try KDirStat or others such as Baobab (a component module of gnome-utils package). The program can scan local partitions or entire hard disk drive, presenting the… Read More
Percona XtraBackup is an open source, free MySQL® hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases. With Percona XtraBackup, you can achieve the following benefits: Backups that complete quickly and reliably Uninterrupted transaction processing during backups Savings on disk space and network bandwidth Automatic backup verification Higher uptime due to faster… Read More
If you have installed Bind DNS Server on Debian or Ubuntu, you probably noticed that all the output will be redirected to /var/log/syslog. We like to have our logs separate for each daemon, so in order to make that change we will need to add some configuration to bind9. First in /etc/bind/named.conf you will need… Read More
If you are using Pfsense Firewall as an OpenVPN endpoint, then chances are, you are aware that you can authenticate your users against multiple types of authentication providers. Beyond that, you can also use authentication providers to allow access to the administration interface of Pfsense itself. In this tutorial I will show you how to… Read More
Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string; incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing… Read More
If your are creating a custom log and would like to use logrotate, then this tutorial is for you. In this example I will show you how I am using logrotate to rotate a custom log created during Unison File Synchronization. The log file I will be rotating is at: /var/log/unison.log. We will also create… Read More
Angry IP scanner is a very fast IP address and port scanner. It can scan IP addresses in any range as well as any their ports. It is cross-platform and lightweight. Not requiring any installations, it can be freely copied and used anywhere. Angry IP scanner simply pings each IP address to check if it’s… Read More