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Post tagged: management

by Alejandro Liu
in 2023

tagged device, management

Updated: 2024-02-02

XPrinterMgr

This is a small utility to manage a local printer(s) in a home office setting. It will show the state of the printer: accepting or rejecting jobs enable or disabled printing ...

by Alejandro Liu
in 2022

tagged application, browser, desktop, device, directory, installation, linux, management, manager, remote, software, sudo, ubuntu

Updated: 2022-03-03

flatpak

Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project and was originally called xdg-app. Snap vs Flatpak ...

by Alejandro Liu
in 2017

tagged backup, backups, centos, git, information, library, linux, login, management, manager, security

Updated: 2021-12-25

Rollback with YUM History Command

From 2daygeek.com Server patching is one of the important task of Linux system administrator to make the system more stable and better performance. All the vendors used to release security/vulnerabilities patches very often, the affected package must be updated in order to limit any potential security risks. Yum (Yellowdog Update Modified) is RPM Package Management utility for CentOS and Red Hat systems, Yum history command allows administrator to rollback the system to a previous state but due to some limitations, rollbacks do not work in all situations, or The yum command may simply do nothing, or it may remove packages you do not expect. I advise you to take a full system backup prior to performing any update/upgrade is always recommended, and yum history is NOT meant to replace systems backups. This will help you to restore the system to previous state at any point of time. n some cases, the hosted applications might not work properly or through some error due to recent patch updates (It could be some library incompatibility or package upgrade), what will be the solution in this case? Get in touch with App Dev team and figure it out an issue creating library' and packages then do the rollback with help of yum history command. ...

by Alejandro Liu
in 2017

tagged computer, information, management

Updated: 2022-11-02

Anti Roboto skills

Losing your job to robots is no longer a sci-fi fantasy. Some estimates say, robots may take over more than five million jobs across 15 developed countries. Machines could account for more than half the workforce in places like Cambodia and Indonesia, particularly in the garment industry. While such information has led many people to seek out higher-tech ...

by Alejandro Liu
in 2017

tagged address, idea, management, manager

Updated: 2022-11-02

manage busyness

Former United States President Dwight Eisenhower was responsible for putting together one of the most important yet fundamentally simple to understand concepts in time management. Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle is a tool to help decipher what tasks need to be addressed more immediately than others. Anyone who uses the principle will be better able to organize and orchestrate their ...

by Alejandro Liu
in 2017

tagged backup, drive, management, tools, windows

Updated: 2021-12-25

Fixed drive letters for removable USB sticks

If you use multiple USB drives, you've probably noticed that the drive letter can be different each time you plug one in. If you'd like to assign a static letter to a drive that's the same every time you plug it in, read on. Windows assigns drive letters to whatever type of drive is available. This can be annoying especially if you use backup tools or portable apps that prefer to have the same drive letter every time. ...

by Alejandro Liu
in 2016

tagged address, computer, configuration, database, device, directory, editor, management, manager, mouse, network, remote, security, service, settings, storage, terminal, tools, windows

Updated: 2022-03-03

Windows administration from the command line

Windows system administration is very mouse driven and to reach all tools you need to browse through Windows explorer. If you are like me and prefer to log on a limited privilege account and use Runas to perform admin tasks, you can open these consoles with the .msc file names. Here is a list of admin tools with their .msc file names. domain.msc: AD Domains and Trusts ...

by Alejandro Liu
in 2015

tagged feature, github, integration, library, management

Updated: 2021-12-25

undup

So, after a long while, I wrote a new C language program. As usual, the same things that I dislike about C programming popped up, specifically the need for low level data structures and manual memory management. I did learn some new things: ...