Category: Windows

One Image Guide: Turn Your Windows 7 Laptop into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

Running Out of Mobile Data? Check This Out: Turn Your PC into a Wi-Fi Hotspot! Enable Windows 7’s hidden features—Virtual Wi-Fi and SoftAP (virtual wireless AP)—to transform your computer into a wireless router and share your internet connection. It’s stable and offers great speed! Never worry about running out of mobile data again! It’s a bit complicated~~ but don’t stress, a …

Networking Basics Guide to Routers

A router is the primary node device of the internet. Routers determine data forwarding through routing. The forwarding strategy is called routing, which is also the origin of the device’s name (router, meaning “forwarder”). As the hub interconnecting different networks, router systems form the backbone of the TCP/IP-based international …

Common RouterOS Soft Router Commands

This article lists some common commands, hoping to help everyone: 1. After booting and logging in, a commonly used ? is the help command, which can list available commands and brief descriptions. 2. Some English commands are very long and can be abbreviated. For example, for interface, you can type in and press Enter, and it will automatically enter interface. Or …

OSPF Protocol DR/BDR Election Rules

OSPF, the Open Shortest Path First protocol, is one of the gateway protocols used within an autonomous area, and it is based on link-state routing. OSPF has 5 network types: 1. Point-to-point type, proposed by Cisco, automatically discovers neighbors, does not elect DR/BDR, hello packet interval is 10s. 2. Broadcast type: proposed by Cisco …

12 Linux Terminal Emulators You Should Try

1.Tilda

Tilda is a Quake-style terminal emulator that supports hotkey activation — summon it to the foreground when you need it, and hide it away when you don’t. Additionally, Tilda supports background transparency, making it easy to see the content behind the window.

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sudo apt-get install tild …

Yum vs. Source Installation: Which Is Better?

While chatting with a friend who works in operations, the topic of whether yum installation or source-based installation is better came up. I really didn’t expect the opinions on this issue to be so divided. Some people believe that if you don’t use source-based installation, you’re not a good operations engineer or a good system administrator. That’s quite a sweeping generalization. Here, I’d like to share my …

What Languages Should System Administrators Learn?

Recently, someone asked me: what language should a system administrator learn? If you’re a Windows sysadmin, the answer is simple: learn PowerShell. If you’re a Unix/Linux sysadmin, the answer gets more complicated, because there are more choices. I don’t want to start a “language war,” and …

5 Simple and Practical VPS Performance Testing Methods

When browsing VPS review blogs or stumbling upon discounted VPS deals through various ad channels, it’s easy to get excited about the price and hardware specs. Before making a purchase, we need to factor in user reviews and our own evaluation criteria. Most importantly, once we buy a server or get access to a free trial machine…