How to Check if Your Linux Device Supports TPM 2.0?

Most modern computers and laptops released after 2016 already have a built-in TPM chip. TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is a special chip used as secure storage for encryption keys, passwords, and certificates. TPM can be used for various security apps such as key vault, secure boot, random number generation, etc. Let’s see how to check if a device has a TPM chip in Linux.

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Error: MySQL Server Has Gone Away

Let’s see how to fix the “MySQL server has gone away” error that appears when accessing MySQL Server.

The most common causes of the MySQL server has gone away error are:

  • Packet size too large in MySQL query (default maximum packet size is 16 MB);
  • You ran out of free RAM on the MySQL host (you can check the free memory in Linux using the free –h command;
  • The inactive connection between your application/script and MySQL (by default, the session disconnects after 8 hours).

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Zabbix: Configuring VMware ESXi Host Monitoring

In this article, we’ll show you how to configure monitoring of a standalone VMware ESXi host with Zabbix. On ESXi, you cannot install zabbix-agent to enable classic monitoring. However, Zabbix can use SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) to communicate with ESXi using XML-RPC format messages.

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Installing AnyDesk on Ubuntu/Debian/Mint

AnyDesk (analog of TeamViewer) is a lightweight (about 6 Mb) cross-platform application for managing and remotely connecting to the desktop of another computer. In this article, we’ll show you how to install AnyDesk on popular Linux distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Alt).

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