BlueStacks App Player for Windows is a great Android emulator that supports most of the common games on Google Play.
In this tutorial I will give you a few tips how to optimize BlueStacks App Player for Windows.
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“Access Control List (ACL) provides an additional, more flexible permission mechanism for file systems.
It is designed to assist with UNIX file permissions.
ACL allows you to give permissions for any user or group to any disc resource.” (Wikipedia)
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“The nc (or netcat) utility is used for just about anything under the sun involving TCP, UDP, or UNIX-domain sockets.
It can open TCP connections, send UDP packets, listen on arbitrary TCP and UDP ports, do port scanning, and deal with both IPv4 and IPv6. Unlike telnet nc scripts nicely, and separates error messages onto standard error instead of sending them to standard output, as telnet does with some.” (NetCat Manual)
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Linux chmod has a few options that can make your life a lot easier when managing a shared storage.
The most needed are chmod suid sgid sticky bit.
Also the impact of each one is different between files and folders.
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xrdp is a free open-source remote desktop server for Linux.
Installing xrdp on CentOS might be a little tricky since CentOS repositories does not contain the xrdp package.
Even the EPEL repository (Extra Packages Enterprise Linux) only contains an old version of xrdp.
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“iptables is a user space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the chains and rules it stores.
Different kernel modules and programs are currently used for different protocols; iptables applies to IPv4, ip6tables to IPv6, arptables to ARP, and ebtables to Ethernet frames.”
In this tutorial I will give a few essential examples of how to use iptables on CentOS
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Warcraft 3 is one the best RTS games ever produced, released in 2002.
The only issue is that the new HD and Wide resolutions are not supported in the configuration menu.
In this tutorial I will show you how to add support for these resolutions.
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Unreal Tournament 99 is an old shooter games but it is still one of the best arena games ever produced.
The community mods and skins support makes it even more enjoyable for most of us.
The only issue is that the new HD and Wide resolutions are not supported in the configuration menu.
In this tutorial I will show you how to add support for these resolutions.
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tr and sed are very powerful stream and character manipulation commands, Each has its own advantage with string manipulation.
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Disable all Active Directory users in a domain or a specified OU that have not logged on and were not created within X days and save the list to a csv file.
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“Onyx is a standalone application that serves as a proxy between the vSphere Client and the vCenter Server. It monitors the network communication between them and translates it into an executable PowerShell code. Later, this code could be modified and saved into a reusable function or script.”
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Linux fg bg commands usage and examples using CTRL-Z and jobs command.
Move a process between background and foreground modes with paused and running states.
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