Nov 12, 2008 | Books, Free Software, General, linux, Technical
Free Knowledge Institute‘s SELF Project and the Open University of Catalonia have jointly produced the book “Introduction to Free Software“. It contains all that you want to know and share about Free Software. The book provides an introduction to the...
Nov 8, 2008 | General, linux, Product Info, Technical, Ubuntu
Need a cool PDA/Notebook look for your Ubuntu installation? Then try this Notebook launcher package. It fills in on top of your existing Ubuntu installlation and gives a cool look for the UI. In a terminal type: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list This will bring up your...
Nov 5, 2008 | Current Affairs, Events, Science, Technical
The Spacecraft is within 500 KM from the moon and it is expected to reach Moon on 8th November. Yesterday scientists were able to carry out orbit raising maneuver of the chandrayaan-1 space craft successfully by burning 440 Newton liquid engine for about two and a...
Nov 2, 2008 | Blogs, Product Info, Technical
Webhosting appliance cPanel announces its new initiative called “cPanel Accelerated” with substantial performance improvements. It’s currently available for all with cPanel’s Current release. Later this month it will be made available with...
Nov 1, 2008 | Product Info, QuickFix, Technical
Running security scan on your website? Then you might be looking for a tool for the same. There are pretty good open source tools available to do this. One of them is Nikto2 . This is a great tool which packed with a lot of features which can scan for over 3500 kinds...
Oct 31, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
Out of memory? Did you upgrade your OS recently? Then carefully have a look at ps -auwx output for memory consumption. Today I found that initscripts package owned minilogd was eating up almost 70% of the server resources on a VPS running on OpenVZ virtualization....
Oct 31, 2008 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
It’s really cute to see the new face of gparted on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. No issues with NTFS resize. In turn it’s quite fast when compared to earlier resizes which I had done on dozens of laptops. Above is the picture of Ubuntu Installation wizard...
Oct 31, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
If you’re running out of RAM, swap and if there is no more room to create a new swap partition, you’re still left with one more option. Create a swapfile. Here are the steps to follow. Determine the size of the new swap file and multiple by 1024 to...
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