WordPress 5.1 “Betty” was released today, honoring American jazz singer Betty Carter. This is the first major release since Gutenberg came into core. As part of WordPress’ 2019 “tighten up” theme, this release was focused on improving performance in the editor and helping users update outdated versions of PHP. WordPress 5.0 had been downloaded more than
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Machines have a trust problem — particularly autonomous machines deployed in safety-critical scenarios, like industrial robots and driverless cars. In a pair of surveys published by the American Automobile Association last January and by Gallup in May, 63 percent of people reported feeling afraid to ride in a fully self-driving vehicle and more than half said they’d
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Certbot is meant to be run on the server where your website is hosted. If you don’t have administrative shell access to your webserver or you’re not familiar with command line server administration, you should check if your hosting provider has built-in Let’s Encrypt support by contacting them or checking this list of supporting providers. Install On Ubuntu systems,
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MySQL is an open-source relational database that is free and widely used. It is a good choice if you know that you need a database but don’t know much about all the available options. This article describes a basic installation of a MySQL database server on Ubuntu Linux. You might need to install other packages
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When to set up a remote database connection This topic discusses how to set up a connection from your web server to a MySQL server on another host. This is an advanced topic that should be used only by an experienced network administrator or database administrator. You must have root access to the file system and you
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Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, has announced the general availability of Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. This is the second such point release since Ubuntu 18.04 was launched in April last year. If you currently run Ubuntu 18.04 and want to use the new software, there’s no need to download the newly spun ISO images, instead just
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This is tested to work on a Ubuntu Server 14.04, 16.04 and 18.04 LTS versions on a physical machine and on a Proxmox container. The development server was built on a basic Ubuntu Server installation with only OpenSSH installed beyond the basic conf. (Proxmox container template) As usual, let’s begin with an update and upgrade. On the command
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RAID is a technology that is used to increase the performance and/or reliability of data storage. The abbreviation stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). A RAID system consists of two or more drives working in parallel. These disks can be hard discs, but there is a trend to also use the technology for SSD (solid state drives). There are different RAID levels, each optimized for a specific situation. These are not standardized by an industry group or standardization committee. This explains why companies sometimes come up with their own unique numbers and implementations. This article covers the following RAID levels:
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By default it’s not possible to establish a direct SSH connection to a Proxmox LXC container. In order to SSH into a container there are two options available. Either you attach to the container through Proxmox host or you allow login with password on the specific container. Option #1: Attach to the container through Proxmox
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