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If you need a database management system with native multi-model and search capabilities, including high availability, you may want to look at ArangoDB. This database platform is used by small and large companies that process massive amounts of data. The system provides synchronous replication, automatic failover, and a self-organizing cluster. with no single points of failure. For more about ArangoDB, please visit its homepage. Install Required Packages To get the latest version of ArangoDB, you can either use it....

Whether you’re creating a personal or company ticket management site, Attendize can help you build and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful user and admin dashboard. This brief tutorial will show students and new users how to install Attendize with Apache2, MariaDB, and PHP 7.2 support on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 LTS. Some features of this platform include: Beautiful mobile friendly event pages. Easy attendee management – Refunds, Messaging etc....

Elasticsearch is a search engine that provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine and schema-free JSON documents across distributed shared storage. Logstash is a free and open server-side data processing component that collects, parses, and transforms data before sending it to other sources, including Elasticsearch. Kibana is a free and open user interface that lets you explore and visualize Elasticsearch data. Beats are lightweight transport agents that collect application data and send it to Elasticsearch or another platform....

Google Chrome is not an open-source browser and is not automatically included with Ubuntu repositories. If you want to use Chrome on Ubuntu, you’ll have to download it manually or add its repositories to install it. Below, we’ll show you how to do that when using Ubuntu Linux. Also, for students and new users learning Linux, the easiest place to start learning is Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is the modern, open-source Linux operating system for desktops, servers, and other devices....

Google Cloud SDK is a software toolset that helps developers and users manage cloud services hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. The packaged toolset contains the gcloud, gsutil, and bq commands and is available in package format for installation on Ubuntu as well as other Linux systems. In Ubuntu, there are multiple ways to install Google Cloud SDK. Ubuntu users can use its official APT repository and also install it from Snap package management....

Joomla is a free and open-source CMS based on PHP and MySQL that also has many features and thousands of plugins and templates or themes. If you want to create an online website or store, Joomla might be the simplest way to do it, especially if you will need support from users to manage and maintain the site. This tutorial is based on Ubuntu Linux. We’ll be installing the Apache web server, MariaDB database server, and PHP modules....

LibreNMS automatically discover your entire network using CDP, FDP, LLDP, OSPF, BGP, SNMP, and ARP and provide you alerts via email, slack and more. LibreNMS supports the majority of the network devices in use today. from many major manufacturers. including the vast majority of the networking devices deployed. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install LibreNMS software on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18....

Back in 2017, Windows released Windows Subsystem for Linux that lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment, including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications directly in Windows without setting up a virtual machine or dual-boot. WSL2 has since been released, and it’s an improvement over version 1. The new and improved version comes with a performance boost, and full system call compatibility, and is built with a new architecture that delivers features that make WSL an amazing way to run a Linux environment in Windows....

If you’re a photographer and want to show your photos to your clients, then Piwigo is a great place to start. and should be very useful for your projects. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Piwigo on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Apache2, MariaDB, and PHP 7.2 support. To get started with installing Piwigo, follow the steps below: Install Apache2 HTTP Server Piwigo requires a webserver and the most popular web server in use today is Apache2....

Textpattern is a lightweight and elegant content management system for publishers, designers, and developers which has been around for many years. It’s a great alternative to WordPress and other popular CMS in use today. If you’re a current WordPress user and wish to try another CMS, give Textpattern a try and see if it fits your needs. It’s based on the same LAMP or LEMP stack as WordPress so the technology shouldn’t be much different than what you already know....

Total.js CMS is in use for many kinds of websites, from small nonprofits and large enterprises. Using Total.js CMS you can modify images, tables, iframes, and much more in seconds. No need for learning templating and HTML Total.js CMS hides most of that stuff and focuses on what matters most. For more about Total.js CMS, check its homepage. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Total....

For students and new users who want to set up a new WordPress website with an Apache2 HTTP server and use Cloudflare for CDN and SSL protection, the steps below should help them get there. This setup might take a while to complete and the process below should work on other websites as well. It doesn’t have to be WordPress. This setup should work on other CMSs and plain HTML sites out of the box....

XOOPS is an easy-to-use, dynamic web content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It has everything you need to build and manage dynamic websites for individual projects or company portals. This cm is built on the LAMP or LEMP stack. All you need is in a single package. just install it and start using it. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, XOOPS CMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its minimalist and modern user and admin interface....

Google Chrome which is the most widely used browser in the world is easy to install and use in Windows 11. Most people find Google Chrome easy to use than Microsoft’s Chromium-based browser, Edge. I believe Microsoft Edge is as good as Google Chrome. But many will disagree. The default web browser in Windows 11 is the new Microsoft Edge browser. Most people might not realize that the new Edge is better and more useful than the old one, and may not be open to using it, and instead are switching to Google Chrome to make it their default browser....

Linux allows you to mount filesystems statically in the /etc/fstab file. However, with the approach, the mount point is always mapped even when you’re not using the mapped resource. To improve automounting of NFS/Samba shares, a tool called autofs was created. This allows automounting of NFS/Samba shares to conserve bandwidth and offer better overall performance compared to mounting statically. autofs is a program for automatically mounting directories on an as-needed basis....

If you see your mouse pointer shooting across the screen faster than you’re moving the mouse, it might be related to also mouse acceleration, also known as pointer precision. It is a feature that has been around for quite some time, starting with Windows XP. It was implemented to help folks feel more in control of the mouse by increasing the distance and speed at which the cursor moves across the screen in response to the speed of the physical mouse on a surface....

When closed captioning is turned on, the texts are usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. The default style is white text on the block. However, you can change the style and color of the text and background. Closed captions are often used by people with hearing disabilities or folks in an area where sound is off or not permitted. When you need closed captions, it’s available in Windows 11....

Focus is a new feature in Windows 11 that helps you minimize distractions. To help you stay on track, it integrates with the Clock app with features like a focus timer and music integration. By default, after each Focus session, you will hear an alarm sound with a notification letting you know that the session has ended. Some users might find this useful. However, few users find the alarm sound annoying and distracting....

If you have a PC with a touchscreen, you can use the touch keyboard to enter text with the touch keyboard. If you do not have a Windows device with the keyboard attached, you can turn on or off a feature in Windows that will show the touch keyboard when there’s no keyboard attached. Currently, there’s a checkbox that allows you to turn it on or off. However, if your computer is enrolled in the Microsoft Insider Preview program, and has updated to preview build 25188, you may see an updated feature that provides three dropdown options to control whether tapping an edit control should launch the touch keyboard:...

Windows 11 now has a new account lockout policy to protect users against brute-force password attacks. Windows lockout account policy setting determines the number of failed sign-in attempts that will cause a user account to be locked. A locked account will not be used until an administrator explicitly unlocks it or until the number of minutes specified by the Account lockout duration policy setting expires. The available lockout duration range is from 1 to 99,999 minutes....