Author: drweb

Organizing your home directory or even system can be particularly hard if you have the habit of downloading all kinds of stuff from the internet using your download managers. Often you may find you have downloaded the same mp3, pdf, and epub (and all kinds of other file extensions) and copied it to different directories. This may cause your directories to become cluttered with all kinds of useless duplicated stuff. In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to find and delete duplicate files in Linux using rdfind, fdupes, and rmlint command-line tools, as well as using GUI tools…

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About The Company:Amalfi Jets is a leading private jet charter company providing unparalleled experiences for our customers globally. True to our mission and motto of “Exploring the world with you.” Our mission is to allow our customers to unlock more of the world, elegantly and efficiently. We work with customers in across six continents and provide clear quality, safety, and excellence standards in everything we do. We share our mission and our commitment to excellence on our social media platforms, @amalfijets where we have over 4M followers and gain over 250 million impressions each month.Our company consists of our aviation…

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ControlMonkey today added artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its infrastructure automation platform that promise to make it simpler for almost any developer to securely provision infrastructure as code (IaC). Company CEO Aharon Twizer said this KoMo AI extension to the ControlMonkey platform will eliminate a skills gap that often conspires to slow the pace at […]

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Are you diversifying your DBA skillset? My recent job search made one thing clear: the database landscape is broader than just SQL Server and Oracle. More and more companies are seeking experience with open-source platforms like PostgreSQL and MySQL. While I’ve always focused on SQL Server, I recently deployed PostgreSQL for a project and successfully configured, secured, and restored it with data. Beyond that, my experience was limited, so I decided to dig deeper.To build hands-on familiarity, I installed PostgreSQL in my home lab. This post walks through the installation process step-by-step, with a SQL Server DBA lens on what’s familiar…

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A survey of 900 engineers, platform leaders and technical managers published today finds nearly two thirds (63%) report their organization is shipping code faster since adopting artificial intelligence (AI). Conducted by Coleman Parkes on behalf of Harness, a provider of a DevOps platform, the survey also suggests, however, that same code is creating more downstream […]

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The Futurum Group’s latest Signal report on Software Development Platforms names Microsoft, AWS, and Google as the top three providers, each achieving Elite status with scores above 90. Microsoft led across all five measured attributes — business value, innovation, vision, execution, and ecosystem — underscoring its longstanding developer focus. AWS and Google continue to close the gap with strong AI integration and ecosystem growth, while challengers like Oracle, IBM, Red Hat, GitHub, Atlassian, and Salesforce also scored competitively.

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Linux booting is a complex process compared to other operating systems. The Linux Kernel accepts many parameters during boot, passed through the command line, which provide essential information to the kernel at system startup. Think of these parameters as special instructions you give to the kernel before it even starts running the operating system. With them, you can tell the kernel: which disk contains your root filesystem? how much memory to use? whether to load certain hardware features. or even how to handle errors during startup. Without them, the kernel would not know how to properly initialize the system. Where…

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Blockchain isn’t just something you hear about in tech circles anymore. It’s being used across industries, finance, supply chains, online gaming, wherever people need a secure way to record transactions without relying on a middleman. If you’re curious about how it actually works, writing a simple blockchain in Python is a great place to start. Python makes it accessible, and you’ll get a firsthand look at the logic behind some of the most widely used digital systems today.What a Blockchain Actually DoesA blockchain is a digital ledger. It stores records in blocks, each linked to the one before it. Once…

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Introducing the Docker Premium Support and TAM service The Docker Customer Success and Technical Account Management organizations are excited to introduce the Premium Support and TAM service — a new service designed to extend Docker’s support to always-on 24/7, priority SLAs, expert guidance, and TAM add-on services.  We have carefully designed these new services to support our valued customers’ developers and global business…

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