Any computer needs to have accurate and accurate date and time, and keeping time accurately without the use of NTP nowadays is troublesome given CPU tics cannot be relied upon in the virtualised world, and falling back to BIOS clocks is long considered bad practice given secure communication relies upon having time within a threshold of whom it wishes to communicate with. With … [Read more...] about How to Check NTP Connectivity and Function on the Command Line
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How to Perform a GET Request with CURL via the Command Line
This post is part of a wider series on CURL, a very useful tools utilised extensively either straight from the command line, or through scripting language specific variants. GET is one of the most commonly used HTTP methods, and is used to request data from a specified URL. When making a GET request, remember that the query string (as in, the key/value pairs) make up the … [Read more...] about How to Perform a GET Request with CURL via the Command Line