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Backing Up Your Data on an Encrypted USB Drive with Back In Time

There is no doubt that we should backup our data often. Anybody who’s lost data because of a crashed hard drive knows that. Backing up data can be ...

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Securely Erasing a Disk or Flash Drive with Shred

To protect your privacy, it is always a good practice to securely wipe any data from your unused hard disks and USB drives in case you lose them, o...

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Running the Ghost Node.js Blogging Platform as an Upstart Service

Ghost is a relatively new and free open source blogging platform for Node.js. If you’re looking for a blogging platform and you are a fan of Node.j...

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Installing MariaDB 10 on Ubuntu 14.04 with TokuDB Support

MariaDB is a fork and drop-in replacement for MySQL, that brings many improvements over its predecessor.

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Recovering a Disk Partition with TestDisk and GParted Live

A friend recently asked me to perform a Windows system recovery on her laptop. The hard disk was split between a C drive for the OS and a D drive w...

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Running Your Node.js App as an Upstart Service

When you are developing a Node.js application, you typically run it like this: node index.js.

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