Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Manage Your Linux System Resources With These 7 Terminal Commands

 Not sure what's hogging your Linux PC's resources? There are lots of tools for getting information about your system and managing resources. Here are some that you should know about to track processes, files, memory, and disk usage.

Monday, January 6, 2025

Its just a UPS, what can go wrong?

 

It doesnt matter if it is a simple UPS install.

I've seen all sorts of mistakes and shortcuts that comes back to bite you.



Here's a few things that I suggest you consider when installing a UPS.

The last point which I did not cover in the video, is to figure out what works best for you and either monitor the health of the UPS or set up a maintenance schedule to check it.





Friday, January 3, 2025

Creating a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter WAN PORT Filter

 Whenever you have a device facing the Internet, you should ensure you have some basic protection against script kiddies, port scanners, and pinging apps.


In this example, I show you how to create a WAN port filter for a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter.


Nothing can take the place of a proper firewall, but this is always a good compromise if the firewall will be installed later .

Here is the link to the Ubiquiti article:




Monday, December 30, 2024

What is the Purpose of Measurement Swiss Army-Knife (MSAK) By Panagiotis Vouzis


 At NetBeez, we’re pretty familiar with the different tools that help measure upload and download speeds, latency, jitter, and bandwidth. There are a lot of options out there. Previously, we talked about how speed tests from Ookla, NDT, Fast.com, Cloudflare, and more work and how they differ from each other. Our monitoring tool can analyze data from hundreds or thousands of end users by orchestrating and collecting measurements in an automated way. Why do we need another speed test when we already have so many options?

The answer is that FCC has laid out requirements of how end-user ISP bandwidth, latency, jitter, and packet loss should be measured to have a standard way of reporting and comparing values fro... https://netbeez.net/blog/msak



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