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FSCK, otherwise known as Filesystem check for linux, is a program built into Linux operating systems that essentially takes the place of CHKDSK in Windows. While Linux rarely needs to run FSCK, it has become more or less standard at boot time on most SystemD powered Linux distributions. FSCK not only checks the bootability of your drive, it also tries to repair problems that prevent the said drive from booting. This can be orphaned inodes, bad journal files, issues with sectors and bad blocks. While many of these could prevent a drive or file system from booting anyway, FSCK is a good first step to ensure drive health and maintain a file system when problems may arise. Linux has great damage control and security already built in that users can easily access to gain more control of their distribution. Running the command man fsck: will return a lot of information on the command. It will return possible exit codes(more on that in a minute) and a short description...

In Linux, both Debian-based and Arch-based, there are more than a couple of browsers to choose from. Most browsers can be found easily in the repositories, but the better ones(Opera and Vivaldi), still have to be downloaded from the net. Firefox also has other editions which are not in the Ubuntu repositories. To install these browsers, you have to go to the website and manually download the browser first. Of course, Vivaldi and Opera have deb packaging that helps with their installation in Ubuntu-based systems, but this is not the case in Arch. In Arch you have tarballs. Tarballs are archives that many packages are placed in as a way to compress large files into smaller ones as to make downloading hundreds of said packages at any given time more efficient. The way in which a tarball is extracted depends greatly on what extension the maintainer used when compressing. Some typical extensions include; tar.gz, tar.bz2, etc. For this tutorial, I’m going to use a package fro...

Bitcoin mining is a popular term around the interwebs these days. Bitcoin mining can be a really good thing for people collecting Bitcoins. Mining helps people to become collectors, it helps promote a healthy economy based around Bitcoins. It can cost a bit to get started, but for those wanting to work from home to earn a potentially descent income, it’s a great thing. Bitcoin mining has changed since its inception, with differing computer hardware models hitting the market every couple of years or so, bitcoin mining has adapted its standards. Bitcoin makes intense and good use of system resources, for this reason, it is recommended that miners first buy a new and powerful machine that will last a few years. These machines can cost money, but some miners make the difference in a couple of years. There is good and bad bitcoin mining, but we’ll talk more about that later. Bitcoin “mining” was called that due to the resemblance of exertion in mines under ground. Bitcoins...