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Setting up a Zabbix 7 + TimescaleDB monitoring server in docker
In this guide we will deploy the popular Zabbix monitoring system using TimescaleDB - a plugin for the PostgreSQL database that allows efficient work with "time series". We'll wrap all this goodness inside docker containers 🐳. It's going to be interesting 😉.
27 minute
Medium
Linux command line, privilege escalation: su, sudo commands
We continue studying the Linux command line. Today we'll learn how to properly run commands on behalf of another user, including the root user.
Ungoogled-chromium — a fork of the Chromium web browser without Google telemetry
Today I'll tell and show you how to install an interesting web browser - Ungoogled-chromium - on Linux Mint 22/Ubuntu 24.04/Debian 12. It is an ethical fork of the popular Chromium, which underlies almost all modern web browsers.
Building OpenConnect (ocserv) Version 1.3 From Source in Debian 12 + Docker Image
Today we'll build the latest version of the OpenConnect VPN server - 1.3, from open source code, on the Debian 12 distribution. We'll also create a Docker image based on the same distribution.
15 minute
Medium
Native upgrade from Linux Mint 21.3 to Linux Mint 22
A new release of the Linux Mint 22 distribution (based on Ubuntu 24.04) codenamed Wilma has just come out. And just recently the developers prepared instructions and a tool for a native (without reinstalling the OS) system upgrade, from Linux Mint 21.3 version to Linux Mint 22. In this short note I'll demonstrate this simple process ;)
Zed — a New Open Source Code Editor in Rust from the Developers of Electron and Atom
Just the other day, a Linux build of the modern code editor Zed, written in the Rust language, was released. This editor is notable for being developed by the creators of the Electron framework and the Atom code editor based on it.
Setting up your own DNS server Unbound and ad blocker Pi-hole in docker
As you might have guessed from the title, today we will install and run a local DNS server Unbound paired with an ad blocker via DNS requests - Pi-hole, using docker.
23 minute
Medium
Writing a bash script to connect to an OpenConnect VPN server
Today we'll write and try out a simple but well-thought-out bash script that performs a client connection to an OpenConnect VPN server, which we covered setting up and running in one of the previous articles.