Category: Articles
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Exploring LM Studio: Running Local AI on Your Desktop or Server
LM Studio is a cost-free tool that enables you to operate an AI on your computer using open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) that are installed locally. It comes with a browser for searching and downloading LLMs from Hugging Face, a built-in Chat UI, and a local server runtime that is compatible with the OpenAI API.…
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Mastering Debugging with Docker in Visual Studio Code
This post will guide you in debugging containerized apps running in Docker using Visual Studio (VS) Code. Prerequisites The following things are required to follow along with this post: Visual Studio Code Docker Debugging a PHP app Visual Studio Code has built-in support for debugging Node.js apps, but for setting up debugging for a PHP…
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Pulumi Tutorial: How to Deploy an EC2 Instance
Pulumi is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solution similar to Terraform. One advantage of Pulumi is that it allows DevOps engineers to use familiar programming languages to define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure. This post demonstrates how to deploy an EC2 instance with Pulumi. Pulumi supports several programming languages, such as Python, TypeScript, C#, and Go, enabling…
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How to Stop VS Code from Causing High CPU Usage on a Remote Server
Sometimes, the remote extensions that are installed by Microsoft Visual Code (VS Code) on remote systems can consume high amounts of CPU usage, making it difficult to use the server efficiently. However, my script can help limit the CPU usage of VS Code on a remote server. When dealing with Microsoft software, one often encounters…
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Pulseway 9.4 Remote Monitoring: Exciting New Reporting, Automation, Patching, and Remote Control Features
Explore Pulseway 9.4 remote monitoring and management’s latest features: enhanced reporting, advanced automation, improved patching, and upgraded remote control for efficient IT management. With the shift to remote work and hybrid cloud infrastructure, cloud-based remote monitoring and management solutions have gained traction with organizations worldwide. Pulseway, a cloud-based RMM solution, recently released Pulseway 9.4 with…
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Exploring the New Security Features in Windows Server 2025: Spotlight on File Services (SMB, NTLM)
The announced support for SMB over QUIC in all editions of Windows Server 2025 marks a significant advancement for the file services role. Additionally, the forthcoming LTSC server release introduces several new strategies devised to boost the security of traditional SMB over TCP or RDMA. One primary benefit of SMB over QUIC is its outstanding…
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Introducing 4sysops AI: The Future of System Operations
We have just added an experimental feature to 4sysops. At the end of every blog article, you will find a chatbot that enables you to ask questions about the article. You may use this feature if you need further clarification or want to gain additional information not covered in the article. It is important to…
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Creating a GPT Chatbot Using OpenAI’s Chat Completions API: A Simple Guide
In a previous post, I explained how to install the Python OpenAI SDK on macOS and Windows. Today, we will expand on using the Open AI API a little further. Today we will develop a basic chatbot as an example. The primary purpose of this article is to gain an understanding of the three roles…
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Managing Azure Resources Using PowerShell cmdlet Invoke-AzRestMethod in Azure REST API
Sometimes, managing certain Azure resources using PowerShell can be challenging due to the absence of specific cmdlets for those operations or services. This is where the Invoke-AzRestMethod cmdlet comes into play, which allows PowerShell scripts to communicate with Azure services by sending HTTP requests to Azure’s REST API. It acts as a bridge between PowerShell…
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How to Connect ChatGPT to Gmail: A GPT Actions Guided Example
A GPT is a customizable variant of ChatGPT that can carry out certain tasks or enhance its capabilities in specialized fields. Think of GPT Actions as superpowers for GPTs, enabling them to engage with external sources and services, which goes beyond mere text generation. In this post, we’ll walk you through the process of linking…