How do I install Rocky Linux on a happy Saturday? OK, maybe an unhappy Monda, but let’s get started! Why? Rocky Linux is a community version of Enterprise Linux that tracks slightly ahead of stability. It’s enterprise-ready and supported by a large community. If your business will lead you to an Enterprise Linux subscription, Rocky Linux is a great choice. How? Download the ISO image, burn it to a CD if you’re ancient like me, or copy it to a USB device....
How do I send emails with Unix and Gmail? Why? If your Unix-based operating system fails, you’ll never know if you don’t forward system emails. When your system is acting up, it will generate emails. However, a Unix system doesn’t send emails by default because spammers hate everyone. How? Install mailx (use a package manager) Edit your mail.rc vi /etc/mail.rc Paste at the bottom of your mail.rc set smtp=smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465 set smtp-auth=login set smtp-auth-user=USERNAME@gmail....
How do I use replit? It depends. I have a couple of use cases, but the use cases are numerous. If you don’t know what replit is, read this next section. What Is Replit? A web-based integrated development environment (IDE). In contrast to Replit, you could learn GitHub, and use Visual Studio Code in a browser. Use Cases? Embed code on your website. Quick and easy code learning. Teaching Hosting Pair Programming How Do I Use Replit?...
The Basics Part of your toolkit when interviewing is understanding common coding challenges. Quickly jumping through interview code challenge hoops will increase your chances of landing a job. I find this to be a painful truth, but it is what it is. To help you succeed at your next interview I have laid out some tips and code for you. Primary Use Cases Landing a job Improving your code Increasing your understanding Invalid Use Cases Actual code, on the job, in most cases Code Challenges Let’s get to the meat & potatoes....
How do I use Google? Strap in, let’s learn some google-fu. 🤺 Double Quotes Wrap your keywords in double-quotes like this. "google fu" Try it out: https://www.google.com/search?q=“google+fu” Google will only return pages with “google-fu” in the content. Exclude Keyword Building on the previous example. "google fu" -medium I hate medium, so I’ll keep that out of my results. Try it out: https://www.google.com/search?q=“google+fu”+-medium Search One Site I bet Urban Dictionary has something to say about google-fu....
