How to Create/ Modify an Account to Give FTP Access Only

October 6th, 2007 Domain Name Servers resolves domain names to IP addresses. However how can you resolve the domain names of the domain name servers? For examples our domain name servers are at ns1.taragana.com and ns2.taragana.com.

June 24th, 2008 GMail overall has a nice spam filter. You can leverage the GMail spam filtering capability even for your corporate emails without paying a dime.

August 30th, 2008 Here are few tips (with undocumented features) to help you export huge MS Access database (production database with real data) to MySQL. Use mdbtools utilities as described below: mdb-tables displays the list of tables in MS Access mdb-scheme export the MS Access schema to MySQL database.

September 28th, 2007 I faced a vexing problem with the otherwise excellent Mozilla Thunderbird email client. I was unable to forward emails to another account using the rules in Message Filters.

May 15th, 2007 Several years ago I noticed a big issue with NIS security at Sun, which I promptly reported hoping for a patch. Today I found out it is still there.

January 8th, 2009 Just imagine your yahoo account hacked from under your nose. All your personal mails, confidential files, pictures, membership access, and contacts being accessed by a disguised criminal.

March 23rd, 2007 Strangely the most obvious means to reset Google AdSense password may not work for you. By obvious I mean the link on AdSense login page: I cannot access my account.

June 3rd, 2008 Semaphore is used to restrict access to shared resources, such as shared memory or to limit the number of processes that may simultaneously use a resource, in a multi-process or multi-threaded environment. In php using semaphore a process must wait while accessing a shared resource currently used by another process.

February 9th, 2009 Don't call yourself an avid gamer if you've still not battled the Linux games. Often the dabblers ask whether they get as cool games for Linux as for Windows.

January 6th, 2009 Myspace deals with too much of privacy sometimes. Did your old friends visit you and didn't leave a message? Is any unknown person watching over your profile on a continuous basis? How do you track them? Well here is a trick that lets you visit your myspace profile visitors that without asking for the Myspace account and password.

November 18th, 2007 This is how you create an infinite loop in bash to run a piece of code perpetually at pre-defined intervals. #!/bin/bash while [ 1 ] do # Your code goes here # Modify sleep time (in seconds) as needed below sleep 2 done For example I used this code to write a bash script to monitor long running mysql queries.

May 26th, 2007 rdiff-backup is a popular, free, open source mirroring and incremental backup system for posix based operating systems like linux & Mac OS X. It uses rysnc algorithm through librsync but it doesn't use rsync.

April 20th, 2008 1. Login to the Admin account (not the normal account) 2. Open up a command shell in the Terminal application by selecting - Macintosh HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal At the command prompt type this command: sudo passwd root You will then get the following prompts.

January 20th, 2009 I am sure that you usually get at least one spam mail a day from Orkut. Even GMail which perhaps has the best filtering capability of spam mails, stands helplessly in front of such backdoor attacks.

November 22nd, 2005 Today one of my computers started displaying - damaged windows xp profile. It then goes into a temporary account.