Requirements Recfiles nginx The standard nginx log format has such a lack of consistency or meaning that you might squint your face into a whirlpool making sense of them: 18.97.14.85 - - [16/Nov/2025:00:52:12 +0100] "GET /posts/learning_without_experts/content.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1704 "-" "CCBot/2.0 …

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Example: 1nmap 192.168.1.1/24 Flags: Flag Meaning Effect -F Fast First 100 ports only Look for a web server, which has ports 80 and 443 open: 1nmap 192.168.1.1/24 -p 80,443 --open

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Requirements LaTeX Packages 1yplan $(date +%Y) > ${file}.tex 2pdflatex -output-directory=/tmp/ ${file}.tex 3mv /tmp/${file}.pdf .

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Requirements Install Arch partitions Packages are kept in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. Delete unused old packages with: 1sudo pacman -Sc Signatures are handled by the pacman-key, initially set up with: 1sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux And refreshed with: 1sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys If you have usigned keys, you can …

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Requirements Install Arch pacman Unattended Actions 1pacman -Syu --noconfirm pacman and yay Text Colouring Getting the colors is done by editing the /etc/pacman.conf and uncommenting the line Color. By adding the line ILoveCandy you will unlock some terminal animations, like pacman eating dots while installing some …

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FDisk Basics 1su root 2fdisk /dev/sda m for help. n to make a partition. t to mark the partition type (see IDs below). w to write the changes to the disk. Note the asterisk marking the boot partition. IDs ID Meaning 83 Linux 5 Extended 82 Swap fdisk will not help with a GPT formatted drive. For this, use gdisk, which …

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You cannot erase pdf metadata with exiftool (it only appends your changes). To delete pdf metadata, you'll need gs. Make a text file called 'pdfmark.txt'. 1[ /Title () 2/Author () 3/Subject () 4/Creator () 5/ModDate () 6/Producer () 7/Keywords () 8/CreationDate () 9/DOCINFO pdfmark Then run: 1gs -o output.pdf …

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Install wireplumber and pipewire, then add your user to any pipewire group. 1sudo ln -s /usr/share/examples/pipewire/20-pipewire-pulse.conf /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/20-pipewire-pulse.conf 2 3sudo ln -s /usr/share/examples/wireplumber/10-wireplumber.conf /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/10-wireplumber.conf

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havn scans ports. It's not in many repos, but if you can cargo install havn. 1havn -h 2havn -a 3domain=splint.rs 4havn -p 19-90 ${domain} That last command doesn't work reliably, so increase the number of retries (-r), or decrease concurrent requests (-c). 1havn -p 19-443 -r 6 ${domain} 2havn -p 1-1000 -c 500 -r 5 …

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