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Introduction During the last few years, I have started several blogs (not much success, it must be said). A technology one, my photography web, and a blog with personal matters, which I decided to close. All of them were made with the same CMS platform: WordPress. WordPress has some advantages, such as its ease of use or the great community behind it. However, I was tired of the huge amount of resources I needed to deploy the CMS and give a good experience to the readers of my blog....

Speedtest is a great tool to verify the status of your internet connection. With it you could check if your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is providing you the speed you have contracted. Normally you would like to use the Speedtest Website version, but here I am going to explain how to use from a Linux Command Line or Linux Terminal. This tutorial is based of the use of the speedtest-cli GitHub Project....

In some situations we need to know which packages we have installed in a Debian or Ubuntu system. In that case, we can use the tool dpkg, which will give us the information we need. dpkg Next command will give us the current packages installed with different states: dpkg --get-selections The states we can have are: install: The package is selected for installation. hold: A package marked to be on hold is not handled by dpkg, unless forced to do that with option –force-hold....