Samba – the server service for providing Windows file and print sharing – automatically launches after each Ubuntu 10.10 installation. However, if you need the Samba Server on your Ubuntu Desktop system only sporadically, you can disable the automatic Read more…
For Ubuntu installations (prior to Ubuntu version 15.10) with separate / boot partition , it may fill up after installing several updates . The issue occurs because older kernel versions are not automatically removed. In this article, we’ll show you how to manually Read more…
Since 2016, Yahoo belongs to the Verizon Group, and to Oath, the Verizon Digital Network. Oath now puts Yahoos’s Big Data Engine Vespa under Java into an open source license. According to the announcement of the Java project Vespa by Yahoo, Read more…
Gluon is another step towards standardized APIs for neural networks. The interface is compatible with both Microsoft’s Cognitive Toolkit and Apache Mxnet. It scales with more than 500 GPUs and is intended to deal with little rather than much data. Microsoft and Amazon Web Services Read more…
The Asian board game Go is considered particularly challenging. For a long time, it was very unlikely that an artificial intelligence in the difficult game would have many chances against a human player. Until Google’s algorithm AlphaGo Read more…
This article shows how SSH access is configured for public-key authentication . To do so, a key pair is created on the client, the public part of the keys are transferred to the server, and the server is set up for key Read more…
Note: This article applies to older SSH versions (SSH version 1). For the latest information on SSH key logins, see OpenSSH Public Key Authentication under Ubuntu . SSH Config for SSH Key customize On the remote server, the / Read more…
If you want to ban direct SSH root login on Debian, you need at least one additional user who can log on to the server, in addition to the root user. Use this user to change Read more…
ProFTPD is a widely-used, well-configurable FTP server for UNIX-based operating systems. This article shows the installation and configuration of ProFTPD in version 1.3.5b-4 on Debian Linux. In the example shown, a TLS encryption is configured on the FTP server to encrypt the Read more…
The tool fail2ban , written in Python, aims to secure server services against DoS attacks. It checks log files for predefined patterns and temporarily blocks the corresponding IP addresses if the failed access is repeated. This article shows you how to Read more…
