Tools News and Articles

Armed with a US$ 20 hunk of hardware and a free software-defined radio tool, Konstantin starts the hunt for radio-transmitted data from a weather station.

The Internet of Things is predicted to be a huge market in the next 10 years, taking the dumb objects around us and making them data-noisy.

Despite the popularity of LVM, traditional partitioning is still preferred by some admins. We provide some tips to consider before choosing a partitioning scheme for your setup.

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.