If you have a directory with many files (a few thousand in my case) and need to know which one is the newest, then the following command might be useful. It returns the name and details of the newest file in a directory where it is executed: ls -tl | sed -n 2p
Many of us overlook our Wi-Fi credentials since our laptops connect to the internet via Wi-Fi. Suppose if you don't have your Wi-Fi key written down and that you need one for some purpose? When the PC has already been linked to the internet, you're fortunate since there are ways to recover it. When you ... Read more
Microsoft has gone to great lengths to keep Windows 10 licensing as simple as possible. Still, there are cases where product activation does not go as planned. Whether you are performing a fresh install or transferring a Windows 10 license to a new device, the product key is essential. Depending on how you got Windows ... Read more
As a technical writer, I deal with a lot of files in my job - sometimes I'm cropping images, other times I'm playing with .zip and .deb files. Not to mention PDFs and other document types we all deal with in our daily computer work. At present my Downloads directory contains over a thousand items, ... Read more
Docker is a tool designed to create, deploy and run applications using containers. With a container, developers can package applications with all parts they need such as libraries, dependencies and ship it all out as on. Docker provides a REST API to talk with its daemon which is executed by the command-line interface. This article ... Read more
Sometimes you might want to download an entire website e.g. to archive it or read it offline. This tutorial will show you which application can be used on Windows and Linux. I will use the tool wget here, which's a command-line program that is available for Windows, Linux, and MAC. Install wget on Windows First, download and ... Read more
Running a nightly backup script on a server system, such as a web hosting server, can result in a heavy load and longer latency for other processes, for example, HTML or .php pages load slowly during the backup because the backup script requires too many I/O or CPU resources. On Linux systems, two shell utilities ... Read more
Gone are the days of classic Solitaire and Minesweeper games, but we still love these simple games. No newer games can replace our enthusiasm for these old games. Microsoft Windows 10 does not have these games included in the default installation packages. However, you still have the option to install these games in your system ... Read more
Recently a question was asked about the purpose of a DHCP server. I thought to answer it here in simple and layman terms. What is DHCP? Every device on the network has an IP address. That IP address can be assigned statically or dynamically. When you have a smaller number of devices, you go to ... Read more
Microsoft Windows services allow running long-running applications in the background. When the computer is booted, the services start automatically and continue running until the computer is turned off, but you can also pause and disable the service. The Windows Services application lists all services, including those that are running and those that are stopped. If ... Read more