Tools News and Articles

Chat rooms aren't just for people. We'll show you how to access an IRC channel using an automated bot.

Nothing protects your data like a well-conceived system of backups. However, no one is perfect, and mistakes happen. In most cases, you can recover data you thought was lost by sending your disk to a data recovery service.

Armed with just standard Linux tools, users can recover files, resurrect partitions, and rescue damaged media.

Just as a craftsman is unlikely to purchase a new angle grinder every month, sys admins are unlikely to change constantly their tried and trusted tools. Columnist Charly Kühnast ditches this conservative philosophy this month, lured by the charms of a new logfile tool.

Tool review: Dialog 0.7, virtenv 0.8.6, collectd 5.4.0, convmv 1.15, Drukkar 1.11, and ngIRCd 20.3.

The incron utility provides an easy way to initiate commands and scripts triggered by filesystem events.

Taskwarrior is arguably the most powerful command-line task manager. We show you how to use this application to manage tasks like a pro.

The Volatility forensic tool helps admins analyze what went wrong on a system. When you need to draw conclusions about malware, or even compromised services, peer into memory with Volatility.

Columnist Charly gives Apache a slick coat of Varnish for better performance.