On Linux, you can use the cups-pdf package to implement a virtual PDF printer. What is a PDF printer? This is a virtual device that is added to the system as a regular printer and when a document is sent for printing, it generates a PDF file from it.
In this article, we will look at several ways to find out the version and edition of the installed Microsoft SQL Server instance. For example, you are a DBA and you have been given the task of scheduling an upgrade on one of the SQL Server hosts. The first thought that comes to your mind is “How do I find out what version and edition of SQL Server is being used on a particular server?”.
On Linux, a history of recent console commands is stored in the .bash_history file. You can view the contents of this file with any text editor or with the command:
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In this article, we will look at how to install a Zabbix Agent on Linux, connect it to a Zabbix server, and configure data encryption using PSK.
I cannot connect to an OpenVPN server from a Windows client with the following error in the openvpn.log:
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I most often use the following command to find out the version of Linux on the host:
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In this article, we will show you how to install Nvidia video card drivers on a Debian Linux distro.
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When starting an OpenVPN server or establishing a new connection using the OpenVPN client, you may encounter an error:
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The Database Mail component is used in Microsoft SQL Server to send an SMTP notification to an administrator’s mailbox. You can enable and configure Database Mail to receive various email notifications about events on the MSSQL server.
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By default, a running app in Windows can run on any of the available CPU cores. The operating system manages and distributes processes between cores. However, you can manually bind certain processes (applications) to processor cores in Windows using the Processor Affinity feature. Let’s see how to bind a program (process) to specific CPU cores in Windows.