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Firefox – Browser of Choice

Firefox – Browser of Choice

Hey, people prefer using Firefox to get connected online. What you use? 78.5% of users accessing my blog use Firefox as of today. It has been my choice for almost 8 years now. Firefox is conducting a survey to understand what you look for in any browser. Attend it and...
Linus Torvalds on Simple talk

Linus Torvalds on Simple talk

Morning all, Looks like all of you are sipping your morning coffee. I would like to share an interesting link with all of you. Hope you all will enjoy reading it while getting ready for the day. We are all always curious to see what Geeks who designed technology...

Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1)

I was greeted with errors when I started installing few new packages on my laptop last night. Didn’t get to fix them until this morning. # aptitude update Errhttps://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1)....

Unable to access VPS via SSH – CentOS5 on OpenVZ

To trouble shoot this issue, first get into the server from the Hardware node so that you can quickly resolve this issue as a VPS Administrator. You might face few issues which I have reported in my earlier posts : Unable to open pty: No such file or directory tty...

Unable to open pty: No such file or directory

Unable to access the VPS via SSH? Are you getting the following error? # vzctl enter 1022 enter into VE 1022 failed Unable to open pty: No such file or directory Fix: # vzctl exec 1022 /sbin/MAKEDEV pty # vzctl exec 1022 /sbin/MAKEDEV tty # vzctl enter 1022 To Fix...

tty device is not owned by group `tty’

If you’re unable to SSH into a VPS server, try accessing the VPS from the OpenVZ hardware node. [root@VS ~]# vzctl enter 1022 entered into VE 1022 mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty’ Here you can see that there is an error related to tty....

ufw – Simple yet Powerful

Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) on your Ubuntu can help managing netfilter firewall. Try today and secure your self on network. # ufw app list Available applications: Apache Apache Full Apache Secure CUPS OpenSSH Postfix Postfix Submission # ufw allow 80 Rule added # ufw...

IDN Domains on Cpanel Servers

Are you planning to own an IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) for your website? Then you must read about Punycode. Yes, Unicode characters found in IDN’s are “alien” for computer networks. PunyCode translates the IDN names to more-limited character...