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How to ping and test for a specific port from Linux or Unix command line
Intel Euclid: Ideal platform for Robotics and Ubuntu Linux powers it
Accidentally overwrote a binary file on Linux? Here is how to restore it
How to find out and show a log of actions taken by the software management on Linux

How to ping and test for a specific port from Linux or Unix command line

Posted: 23 May 2017 12:46 PM PDT

Intel Euclid: Ideal platform for Robotics and Ubuntu Linux powers it

Posted: 23 May 2017 10:54 AM PDT

Intel announced Euclid development kit for robotics. It is Ubuntu Linux 16.04 based system. One can run, monitor and manage their robotics apps with the web interface. The software works with any ROS-based (Robotics Operating System) robot such as Arduino to build sensing capabilities in your project. You can use sensors and cameras to control a robot.

Accidentally overwrote a binary file on Linux? Here is how to restore it

Posted: 23 May 2017 10:12 AM PDT

A shell script went wild due to some bug, and the script overwrote a binary file /bin/ping. Here is how tor restores it.

How to find out and show a log of actions taken by the software management on Linux

Posted: 23 May 2017 07:03 AM PDT

I am a new Debian Linux server user. How can I display a log of actions taken by the apt-get command or apt command or dnf command or yum command software management command?