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Kutt.it is a great little application.  It was suggested by a subscriber, and I really have like it.  It's got a simple, clean interface, and does exactly what you expect from a link shortening application. Installation is pretty straight forward, and like ...

My previous video ona a database amnagement tool was on MySQL Workbench, and got a pretty good response.  I did, however, have quite a few poeple ask about using it with Postgres SQL, which can be done, but is not super easy, and really not what the tool is ...

For years I've worked with MySQL / MariaDB.  It's an incredible open source database offering that allows those of us with no extra money to spend on ridiculously difficult and silly licenses for such monstrous things as Microsoft SQL Server.   My use has be...

Top is a command  line application that shows you system information like CPU, RAM (memory), and Network usage, as well as an ordered listing of your currently running processes and their system utilization with regard to CPU, RAM, and more. Top is an excel...

Get Wavemon Wavemon is a simple utility made in nCurses (a para-GUI written for the terminal window).  Other such tools are nMon, cTop, etc. You can find the wavemon project on github at https://github.com/uoaerg/wavemon To install Wavemon on a Debian / U...

Why? Why use a text expander?  If you have a job, any job, that requires you to re-type the same templated type text, over and over, and ove, then a text expander is a tool you should be using. It simply does exactly what the name implies.  It expands text...

There are a lot of great open source options for inventory management out there.  I want to start with one that I found recently called Homebox.  It is really a great conceptual bit of software, and it has some really great features that can make it very eas...

I've been asked several times to install InvoiceNinja, and no matter how I tried, it never seemed to work, but gave errors in the log every single time.  So, I started looking for other open source invoicing solutions.  I tried a bunch of them.  Invoice Lion...

I've covered multiple video surveillance options over the past year or so: Shinobi, Zoneminder, MotionEyeOS, Frigate, and they all have their pros and cons.  I was talking about some issues Zoneminder was generating on a network with Scott over at Scottibyte...

File compression isn't an overly glamorous topic, but when you stop to think about it, it's a topic well worth discussing.  We don't even think about it these days.  You download a .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, or .7z file and sometimes your OS (MacOS in particular...

Whoogle Search is an open source, self hosted Google search with teh ads, and a bunch of other junk-ware, stripped out of it.  It really brings you back to a top notch search experience with more privacy in mind. I found this little gem while talking with S...

Dolibarr is a free, open source, self hosted ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and CRM (Client Relationship Management) system.  I have covered ERPNext in the past, and people seem to be interested in it, so I wanted to provide information on how to ins...

I wanted to clear up the steps a bit, as my original set is a bit convoluted. I made it more complicated (slightly) than it has to be, and figure there is an easier way. The following is based on using Portaianer-CE as a front end GUI (Graphical User Interf...

Pi-hole is an amazing tool with tons of functionality beyond it's main purpose of filtering out ads from your devices.  Now, imagine you went to all that trouble to get rid of those ads and tracking, but you still send all your requests right through your IS...

Human Resource Management, or HRM, is a broad topic to say the least.  In this episode of Building a Business on Open Source, we'll be taking a look at OrangeHRM.  This offering seems like a really nice option for a start-up business, all the way up to a bus...

I have covered multiple chat applications over the years, and as I was digging through my list of bookmarks I ran across this application that I had put aside unitl it had become a little more mature.  It's still quite new, but also in a state where I believ...

LazyDocker is an amazingly useful command line utility for managing Docker applications / services.  The interface is generated completely int he CLI (command line interface) so it's available with a simple SSH login to the host server.  It's cross platform,...

Along the same lines as Homer, Heimdall, and Monitorr; I wanted to continue our look into personal web dashboards.  I've posted about those few, and talked about others as well.   Sometimes the question comes up, and it's a valid one, "Why would I use this ...

NTOPNG (I rponounce it N-Top-N-G) is a browser based server application you can run in Docker.  By setting it up properly, it can scan your entire network and provide analytical data back about traffic patterns adn levels from different machines or sub-netwo...