| Howto open port using iptables | | 2008-05-14 03:26:00 | | If you want your machine to respond to requests initiated from elsewhere on the internet, in effect to be a server, you need to open the required ports. To do this properly, you need to know:
1. What service you want to open up?
2. Whether it is a tcp or udp service?
3. What port number(s) it uses?
You may also wish to think about restricting access to certain machines; e.g. if you
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| Howto create a MySQL user | | 2008-05-13 04:46:00 | | Here is a quick tip how to create from mysql new database and a new mysql user that has full privileges on this newly created database:
mysql -uroot -p
CREATE DATABASE ;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON .* TO 'my_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'my_password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
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| Howto change the MySQL root password | | 2008-05-13 04:45:00 | | Here is a quick tip that will show several methods to change the mysql root password (that is normally empty at mysql initial install).
Method 1: using the SET PASSWORD command:
mysql -u root
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('newpass');
Method 2: using mysqladmin
mysqladmin -u root password "newpass"
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| Howto Install Wine in Ubuntu | | 2008-05-06 06:35:00 | | Add the winehq repository : Open up a terminal Applications->Accessories->Terminal
Add the gpg apt key: wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Add the Repository via wget:
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
Update the apt sources and install the latest wine!
sudo apt-get
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| HowTo: Install YouTube Video Download in Fedora | | 2008-05-06 02:08:00 | | This quick post should have been here since but I keep on forgetting about this quick howto.
Download Videos from Youtube from Fedora box
Tired of watching and browsing the same old video files from Youtube? Do you wish to collect Youtube video clips of your favorite video files from youtube?...
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| HowTo: Install FFMpeg on Fedora Linux | | 2008-05-05 02:36:00 | | FFMpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. FFMpeg can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash.
FFmpeg can generate a lot of...
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| HowTo: Powerful Metric and Units Linux Conversion Tool | | 2008-04-30 08:18:00 | | Does a scientific calculator scares you or your visitor aways from your seat? An online metric conversion site is miles away from your linux desktop internet connection? Worry not, here's a quick tip on how to have an offline metric conversion linux tool that could help most metric and scientific...
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| HowTo: Prevent Non-Root From Rebooting/Shutting Down The System | | 2008-04-29 06:12:00 | | Have you experienced a scenario where your users make use of reboot or halt command? Did somebody user just reboot your own server? Do you want to prevent your users from shutting down your linux box or even rebooting it?
Here's a quick entry on how to prevent users from rebooting or shutting down...
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| HowTo: UDP Connectivity Host Test | | 2008-04-29 04:46:00 | | Are you wondering how would you be able to test and probe a port that listens for UDP connections? Or how would you test a listening UDP port?
How to test a listening UDP port
If you have managed to create a daemonized service that opens port for UDP connections, here's how to test that listening...
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| HowTo: Secure SSH by Disabling Root Logins | | 2008-04-29 04:35:00 | | Securing SSH is one major thing on server boxes regardless of server location. Here's one quick tip of adding security to your SSH connection by disabling any root logins.
How to secure SSH by disabling root logins?
To disable direct root logins, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and replace this...
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| HowTo: Retrieve Current Latitude and Longtitude from Linux | | 2008-04-29 04:23:00 | | Do you know your exact zone longitude and latitude coordinates? Knowing your current zone coordinates won't hurt a bit. Here's how to retrieve latitude and longitude coordinates inside your linux box via terminal.
To pinpoint your latitude and longitude of your current location from your Fedora...
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| HOWTO kill/block an RFID | | 2008-04-25 09:00:02 | | From Boing Boing:
Instructables have just published their latest installment in their series of HOWTOs inspired by my forthcoming novel Little Brother, a young adult book about kids who use technology to wrest liberty from the Department of Homeland Security. This week, it's HOWTO | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
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| HowTo: Install Wallpapoz | | 2008-04-18 09:39:00 | | What is Wallpapoz?
Wallpapoz application enables you to configure Gnome desktop wallpapers in unique way. You could have Gnome desktop wallpaper changes when the specified time has passed. The most important feature is you could have Gnome desktop wallpaper changes when you change workspace. This...
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| HowTo: Join Two Text Files with Common Columnar Field via Terminal | | 2008-04-18 04:27:00 | | From my recent post, we have covered to merge data contents two text files without a common columnar field. We have also covered joining two text files into one text file separated by a delimiter character. Now, from this post, we are going to go thru merging two text files with a common columnar...
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| HowTo: Copy and Paste A Text File into Another Text File via Terminal | | 2008-04-16 03:49:00 | | Yes, you read correct. This time around, we are going to paste data content of one text file into another text file and we are going to approach this issue using linux command via terminal. This one could be easily done inside X or GNOME, but let us assume we are going to do it from a linux system...
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| HowTo: Install Ioncube PHP Encoder/Decoder | | 2008-04-12 03:19:00 | | Are you a PHP geek coder by profession or by hobby? Do you ever wish to hide your PHP source codes but still sell it to the market without even buyers having to view your PHP source codes?
If your intention is to hide PHP codes of your work and still distribute it, read on.
How To Install IonCube...
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| HowTo Forward the mail to many addresses using procmail | | 2008-04-12 02:40:00 | | We just need to add more addresses to the action line:
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* ^Subject: This is urgent$ ! first@one.com second@two.net third@three.org
If you have a large list of recipients, you might prefer to store the addresses in an external file you can edit without mucking with your Procmail filters:
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* ^Subject: This is urgent$
! `cat addresses.txt`
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| HowTo Allow windows updates through squid | | 2008-04-10 01:20:00 | | Add the following to your squid.conf, It 'MUST' be added near the top before any ACL that require authentication.
acl windowsupdate dstdomain windowsupdate.microsoft.com
acl windowsupdate dstdomain .update.microsoft.com
acl windowsupdate dstdomain download.windowsupdate.com
acl windowsupdate dstdomain redir.metaservices.microsoft.com
acl windowsupdate dstdomain images.metaservices.microsoft.com
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| HowTo: Identify your IPv4/IPv6 Loopback Address | | 2008-04-02 02:17:00 | | Most likely, administrators are familiar with IPv4 and IPv6 loop back address. The need to identify and reach IPv4/IPv6 loop back IP addresses remains basic but a need to know knowledge.
Here's a quick entry on how to identify IPv4/IPv6 loop back address status. Read on.
IPv4 Loop back...
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| HowTo: Get Disk, Partition And Folder Space Usage | | 2008-04-01 06:05:00 | | Quick and brief.
Here's a swift blog entry on how to retrieve and get disk usage of the following items:
a. directory folder
b. mounted disk partition
c. disk
To get the disk usage of a folder and return a human readable summarized usage
# du -sh /folder1
# du -sh /folder1/folder2
# du -sh...
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| HowTo: Motion Picture Linux Paint and Retouching Tool | | 2008-03-26 02:52:00 | | Have you been told that Holywood uses Linux tools and software too? Do you know one? Read on.
CinePaint is a painting and retouching tool primarily used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching and dust-busting. CinePaint was used on THE LAST SAMURAI, HARRY POTTER and many other films. From...
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| 5 Quick and Easy Steps On HOWTO Send Your Website A SURGE Of Amazons Traffic For FREE | | 2008-03-24 06:17:00 | | ** By: The LegendAn autoresponder course is a group of articles or information set up to be sent out separately over a set period of time by e-mail. People just e-mail your autoresponder to receive the free course and it is sent out automatically over time. You can find free follow-up autoresponders to use by typing it into any search engine. Below are ten ways to use them to increase your traffic and sales. 1. Offer your course as a free bonus for purchasing one of your main products or services. People will buy your products quicker when you offer a bonus. 2. When you write and give away a free course you will become known as an expert. This'll gain people's trust and they will buy your main product quicker. 3. Allow others to add your free course to their own product packages. Their customers will see your ad when they purchase. 4. People love to get freebies. A free autoresponder course is perfect. They will visit your web site to get the free valuable information. 5. Allow people | | By: I Make Money Online by Telling People How Much Mon | | |
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| HowTo: Convert First Letter of Dir Folder to Uppercase | | 2008-03-13 09:12:00 | | Well, if we can convert the first letter of each lines from a text file, we can use the same approach to convert the first letter of a directory or folder name to its uppercase as well, simply add the linux mv command.
If you have hundreds of directory name in one location that starts their...
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| HowTo: Lightning Speed Big Claws | | 2008-03-12 07:46:00 | | Who gets tired of Thunderbird and Evolution mail client software? How about, "You've Got Claws Mail!"
Do you want to try a new GTK+-based lightweight but heavy duty email client for linux?
Let's give Claws a shot.
What is Claws?
Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+,...
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| HowTo: Convert First Letter of Text Line to Uppercase | | 2008-03-11 06:19:00 | | Real quick and easy, I just need to drop it here as I was using it most of the times handling tens of thousand keyword text files.
If you need to convert the first letter of the word or first letter of a text line to its uppercase, read on.
Here's how to convert the first letter of a word from...
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| HowTo: Automatically Change your Fedora Desktop Wallpaper | | 2008-03-06 05:12:00 | | How to selectively change your desktop wallpaper automatically?
How to automatically change your desktop wallpaper every N minutes?
How to add wallpaper management program into your linux desktop?
How to add wallpaper panel into your GNOME panel?
Here's a quick post of how to have a wallpaper tray...
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| HowTo: Extremely Powerful Linux Password Sniffer | | 2008-03-04 09:05:00 | | Password Sniffer on Linux?
Yep, we all need to be informed of passwords being sniffed out! I would not entail those details and cover specific issues of identifying your network securities as that would be large enough to be covered here and case to case basis.
However, those two words are being...
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| HowTo: Identify Your Linux Shells | | 2008-03-03 00:56:00 | | I have seen site visitors searching for linux tips on determining their current linux shell the system's default shells.
Identifying Linux Default Shell
Here are few quick tips on determining and identifying your current shell.
To know which shell type your current user is logged on to or which...
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| HowTo: Recover Missing Portmap on Fedora 8 | | 2008-03-01 02:47:00 | | Are these lines familiar to you?
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# service portmap status
portmap: unrecognized service
# service nfs start
Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
rpc.rquotad: unable to register (RQUOTAPROG,...
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| HowTo: Extract Lines That Started With Matching String Using Grep | | 2008-02-28 10:38:00 | | From recent post of displaying the first occurrence of line that starts with a specified matching string, now instead of the first occurrence, here's a way of stripping out all matching lines that start with the given matching string.
Reproducable Approach
Say for example, we have a text file with...
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| HowTo: Delete All Thumbs.db Recursively | | 2008-02-28 04:50:00 | | An offline messages just arrive from a fedora newbie trying to polish more of his FTP administration skills.
After quite some time of establishing his fully functional FTP server via VSFTP, he then realized that most of their staff with windows-based desktops usually Selects ALL files, Copy and...
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| HowTo: Handy Linux Network Diagnostic Tool | | 2008-02-27 16:13:00 | | I should have posted this handy linux command long time ago, which was also mentioned from this link, but not explicitly eloborated.
What is MTR?
Mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
Mtr, when issued, investigates the network...
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| HowTo: Display Lines That Starts With A Given String | | 2008-02-26 15:52:00 | | Matching strings can be counted using grep, cat, sed. Matching strings can be sorted and even omitted for matching repetitions using sort and uniq. They can also be highlighted during the string parsing operation via grep. More can be done using awk. But have you ever tried to display the first...
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| HowTo: Find And Count JPG Files Recursively | | 2008-02-26 02:01:00 | | I have been busy playing around with more than 100,000 images and JPG files from my hard drive and I just realized that I was issuing a few set of commands redundantly specially on counting the number of images from categorical 'named' folders alone and from its sub 'event-folders'...
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| HowTo: Do Awk with Loop | | 2008-02-25 03:04:00 | | From recent posts, we have tried to remove the first word by statically specifying the matching string fields using awk and cut.
What if we need to remove the first word but retain the 2nd word up to Nth word of a line from a text file?
Here's a real quick and easy of dynamically looping awk to...
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| HowTo: Strip Out First Word of Line from Text Files | | 2008-02-24 02:23:00 | | This is a quick post on how to remove the first word of a line.
There are lot of ways on how to remove and strip out the first word of a line from a text file. Here's one way to achieve that.
# cat testfile.txt
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| HowTo: Highlight Matching Grep Results | | 2008-02-23 04:53:00 | | Here's a quick entry on how to have a highlighted and colored text from grep resulting strings and characters.
Assuming we have /var/log/maillog and we wish to grep it with multiple search strings. Well this would be faily simply
# cat /var/log/secure | grep 'Accept\|refuse'
What if we want to...
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| HowTo: GNOME Commander File Manager | | 2008-02-22 04:00:00 | | GNOME Commander is a nice and fast file manager for the GNOME desktop. In addition to performing the basic file manager functions, this feature-riched file manager program is also a FTP-client software at the same time. GNOME Commander can also browse shared SMB-networks or SMB-drive.
GNOME...
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| HowTo: Install Plone CMS on Fedora | | 2008-02-21 02:27:00 | | From recent Wordpress installation on Fedora system, here's another quick installation howto of Plone - a content management system (CMS) on Fedora system
What is Plone?
Plone is a user friendly and powerful content management system based on Zope. Plone is easy to use, translated into over 35...
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| HowTo: Thumbnail A Website From Linux Command Terminal | | 2008-02-21 01:17:00 | | Blogging from Wordpress platform enables a blogger to incorporate and activate snapshot plugin where a blogger create on-demand URL snap shots of their websites.
If you are looking for HTML site thumbnailer software available from Linux command lin, read on.
Here's how to create a thumbnail...
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| HowTo: Advanced Two-Pane File Manager | | 2008-02-19 01:11:00 | | Have you read the last post of having a two-pane GUI file manager from your desktop linux? Well, here's another round of a much more advanced two-pane file manager.
What is Krusader
Krusader is the result of a 7-year old programming and discussion colloboration of opensource developer to come up...
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| HowTo: Two-Pane GUI File Manager | | 2008-02-18 07:15:00 | | Implementing a two-pane with GNOME File manager is still under review as an additional nautilus file manager feature. Having a two-pane file manager offers better flexibility, convenience and usability of file management and directory operations, which is unbeatable by any customized shell...
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| HowTo: Drop Down Linux Terminal Console | | 2008-02-12 07:12:00 | | Are you looking for alternative linux terminal console that offers quite new terminal convenient features?
Here's an alternative linux tool that is available is also available from Fedora repos.
Yakuake - Yet Another Linux Terminal Console
Yakuake, one of the alternative KDE-based linux tool, is...
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| HowTo: Image Magics with ImageMagick | | 2008-02-09 02:44:00 | | ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed...
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| HowTo: Convert JPG Image Files to MPG Video Files | | 2008-02-09 02:25:00 | | That title is very catchy. Yes, this entry aims to convert a few JPG image files and merged them into one MPG video file using a small handy linux tool. Read on.
What is Kipi?
Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and...
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| HowTo: Alternative Way to Convert GIF to PNG | | 2008-02-09 02:15:00 | | Here's an entry on how to convert multiple GIF files into PNG file format from terminal.
There are many ways on converting GIF files to PNG file format. One of them is using a command-line driven gif2png GIF-PNG file image converter.
Description:
The gif2png program converts files from the...
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| HowTo: Lock X While Root With ScreenSaver | | 2008-02-09 01:50:00 | | Screensaver desktop preferences prevents your screen from being locked using screensaver.
Here's an alternative way of having a screensaver lock your screen while root. Read on.
By default, under System > Preferences > Look and Feel > ScreenSaver preferences does not allow locking of...
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| HowTo: Encrypted Bandwidth-Efficient Linux Backup Powered by Duplicity | | 2008-02-05 09:32:00 | | If you are looking for another backup linux utility that supports GnuPG encryption mechanism over file and folder data backup and transfer, read on.
Duplicity backs up directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses...
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| HowTo: Install Java IcedTea on Fedora 8 | | 2008-02-05 08:14:00 | | There a lot of java-enabled websites around the globe when visited, checks for specific java version from end users' browser. Most banking institutions does this. Disappointment comes along if you don't have any java package from your Fedora box.
If you are using Fedora and you wish to install the...
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| HowTo: Simultaneous Install of Sun Java and Java IcedTea on Fedora | | 2008-02-05 07:57:00 | | From Fedora OS, if you were trying to issue
# java -version
and it is giving you the below similar output
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java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software...
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| HowTo: Install K9Copy on Fedora | | 2008-02-05 07:25:00 | | K9Copy Description and Installation
K9Copy is a small utility which allows the copy of DVD on Linux. K9copy facilitates several methods for backing up a DVD and utilizes libdvdcss to circumvent CSS copy protection.
K9copy enables direct backup of a single layer DVD-5 provided the user's computer...
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| HowTo: More of Fedora Themes Package | | 2008-02-01 17:33:00 | | As a Fedora user since Fedora Core 1, I have to admit that the default X windows system with Fedora is not that quite sweetened and color-coded. Yes, it has striked a few but more candy-cooking is needed to bling it further. But hey, themes for X themes including icon and application themes are...
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| HowTo: European Language Fonts Installation on Fedora | | 2008-02-01 17:23:00 | | If you are looking for more font types and options for more of your document write ups, here's a quick entry on installing European Language fonts on your Fedora X system.
European language fonts rpm package provides Central European fonts in compliance with the ISO8859-2 standard.
European...
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| HowTo: Midnight Commander | | 2008-02-01 16:36:00 | | A decade ago, file operations on operating systems has been really quite eeery and so technical. File deletion, management and operation under MS-DOS and IBM-DOS with black text background tends to scare newbies on doing simple file tasks. Until file manager application has been introduced. One of...
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| HowTo: Brasero | | 2008-01-31 08:05:00 | | Here's another simple Gnome CD/DVD burning application.
Brasero, simple and easy to use yet another GNOME CD/DVD burning application for the Gnome desktop.
Features
* Supports multiple backends: cdrtools, growisofs and libburn(optional).
Note: compiling against libburn is _not_enough....
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| HowTo: ISOs Management for Fedora | | 2008-01-31 07:47:00 | | ISOMaster is an easy to use graphical CD image editor. Isomaster allows to extract files from an ISO, add files to an ISO, and create bootable ISOs (CD/DVD) - all in a graphical user interface. It can open ISO, NRG, and some MDF files but can only save as ISO.
ISOMaster Main Features
a. Create...
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| HowTo: Install Nmap with GUI FrontEnd | | 2008-01-31 05:41:00 | | With old blog entry, here's how to have a GUI front-end for port and host scanning linux tool, Nmap. Port and host scanning via nmap is commonly done from linux terminal command line or CLI. If you wish to use nmamp with your X, here's an entry to do that.
As we all know, nmap is a free and...
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| HowTo: Create and Manage Genealogy Family Tree via Gramps | | 2008-01-31 05:20:00 | | GRAMPS is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional genealogy program, and a wiki open to all. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.
Gramps genealogy software offers easy of use and easy navigation around different tree views of your...
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| HowTo: Install KFTPGrabber FTP Client | | 2008-01-31 04:38:00 | | KFTPgrabber is a graphical FTP client for the K Desktop Environment. KFTPGrabber implements many features required for usable FTP interaction. If you like KDE environment and you are looking for KDE-based FTP client software, here's a quick entry on how to install KFtpGrabber linux tool to your...
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| HowTo: Install FileZilla 3 on Fedora 8 | | 2008-01-31 04:26:00 | | Filezilla has come a long way both FTP software server and client base. To those who hasn't installed FileZilla FTP Client yet, here's how to install Filezilla to Fedora 8. And those who are still looking for alternative FTP client software for linux,besides from GFTP and KFtpGrabber, here's a...
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| HowTo: Be Alerted via Popups When Monitoring Log Files | | 2008-01-30 15:05:00 | | Do you need a desktop popup alert when somebody is trying to bruteforce your SSH service?
How to be alerted from X Desktop when specific matching words appears from specific logs?
How to popup an alert when matching phrases are met from log files?
A quick entry on how to be alerted from X windows...
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| HowTo: Mount Windows Drive From Linux GUI | | 2008-01-28 08:04:00 | | Are you searching for Network Neighborhood from your linux desktop? Have you been wondering how you can map a shared windows network drive from your linux desktop using GUI?
Here's another simple linux desktop howto on mapping shared windows folder from linux desktop.
There are lots of way to...
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| HowTo: Delete Files With 0K Filesize Recursively | | 2008-01-28 07:31:00 | | I have been asked to post a command or script by a newbie user on how he can delete all files with 0K or zero filesize recursively.
This is a quick entry on how to delete files with 0K (zero) filesize and optionally do it recursively.
A precaution. First, deleting files recursively in linux is...
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| Howto.fm - The Knowledge Base Ready To Explode | | 2008-01-26 14:22:04 | | Fresh content is always appreciated by search engines and by knowledge hungry Internet surfers. Following the same theory “how to” is a content rich website containing tons of article on various categories. Some of the regular categories which might be of Interest to the readers of this tech blog are:
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| HowTo: Changing Interface's MTU Size | | 2008-01-21 07:50:00 | | Wiki defines MTU as
In computer networking, the term Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) refers to the size (in bytes) of the largest packet that a given layer of a communications protocol can pass onwards. MTU parameters usually appear in association with a communications interface (NIC, serial port,...
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| HowTo: Create Vanishing Virtual Drive | | 2008-01-21 03:59:00 | | You can work with your hard drives, network drives and other external or USB storage devices accomplishing critical linux hacks. Yes, technology nowadays have enabled us to make use of larger and more stable storage capacity drives and devices. Most firms and company services enjoy the benefits of...
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| HowTo: Install Identity.pub Into Remote Machines | | 2008-01-21 01:52:00 | | Installing identity.pub from your local machine into a remote machine can be done in a fewer keystrokes using ssh-copy-id. This ssh-copy-id linux command has been used as one of the few linux commands here but it's usage has never been emphasized and explained.
This quick entry covers on how to...
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| HowTo: Basic RPM Package Queries And Usage | | 2008-01-18 19:37:18 | | RPM has been the standard binary for querying packages from RedHat and any other rpm-based OS like CentOS, WhiteBox, Fedora, Mandriva, Blag and 60+ more.
As a refresher, here are some basic patterns on how to query rpm packages using rpm package manager.
To search rpm database for all package that contains sendmail
# rpm -qa sendmail
To query rpm database for package with particular string
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| HowTo: Rebuild Locked Out RPM Database | | 2008-01-18 13:36:08 | | Every time you query rpm database against your rpm package manager, your linux terminal and query seems to hang and you cannot do something about it except try to kill and terminate the current rpm query process.
One probable cause for this could be a recent rpm query was unexpectedly terminated by hitting Control+C, that left rpm on a inaccurate state or rpm stale lock status. RPM when | | By: A Linux SysAd Blog | | |
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| HowTo: Display RPM Packages Installed Last Month | | 2008-01-18 09:45:53 | | I have been posting rpm samples but have not posted anything about rpm description, so here goes the man page.
rpm is a powerful Package Manager, which can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and erase individual software packages. A package consists of an archive of files and meta-data used to install and erase the archive files. The meta-data includes helper scripts, file | | By: A Linux SysAd Blog | | |
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| HowTo: Display and List Out All Package Files Recently Installed | | 2008-01-18 08:19:30 | | With a pending project at hand, system admin A installed mod_ssl, and after a while sysad A resigned and left. You take over and found out that mod_ssl was recently installed with a pending configuration job. The mod_ssl is just a new thing for you and your experience. But you need to continue a pending configuration job regarding mod_ssl service.
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| HowTo: Identify Source Package Name Of A File or Folder | | 2008-01-18 07:51:44 | | Here's a way to identify from which program package a file belongs to or which package a directory folder belongs to or created from? That is, which package name installed and created a particular package file?
Supposed that you encounter a file name lying a round from some directory and the file looks like unfamiliar to your mind's file list. And you are aware that this file is part of an | | By: A Linux SysAd Blog | | |
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| HowTo: Squeezed Out Multiple Lines From Text File | | 2008-01-18 07:25:38 | | If you have a text file with multiple lines running between each set of words or pharagraph, here's how to convert those multiple line breaks into single line breaks and totally remove paragraph lines, new lines or return lines inside text files.
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| HowTo: Print Only Lines of Text File with N characters | | 2008-01-18 07:23:42 | | Let us assume we have a large text configuration file, and we need to display and print ONLY the lines that has more than 20 characters per line, how can we do that from command line terminal?
Selective Display of Lines From Text File
Here's how to print the lines of a text file that only exceeds the specified N characters.
Say an example text file.
# cat testfile.txt
Result:
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| HowTo: Delete Extra Spaces Between Words From Files | | 2008-01-18 06:56:57 | | Have you encountered a text file full of words separated by multiple extra space between words? Mostly, these files are caused by data export mechanism by some application processing software.
Now, here's how to remove and delete those multiple and extra spaces between words of a file.
# cat testfile.txt
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| HowTo: Find Hidden Directory Folders Recursively | | 2008-01-18 06:39:35 | | The title says it all, how to find hidden directory folders recursively.
There are times we need to list down all hidden directories from a file system or display all hidden directory folder from a client home folder, this task can simply be done using linux find command.
How to find hidden directory folder recursively?
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| HowTo: Create Hidden Directory Folder | | 2008-01-18 06:23:01 | | From linux command line terminal, here's a quick tip on creating a hidden directory folder from your hard drive.
Simply issue the following to create a hidden directory from linux terminal window.
Let us do it from temporary folder
# cd /tmp
Then create the hidden directory folder
# mkdir .hideme
Go inside the hidden directory folder
# cd .hideme
# ls -la
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| HowTo: Sort Files by FileSize and What Else? | | 2008-01-18 05:49:35 | | If you have thousands of email users and you wish to get email alerts of the top 10 largest mail box users from your email without using any other external linux software, here's how to accomplish this task. This task can also be used to check for top largest files of your hard drive from linux terminal command line.
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