How To Disable On-Demand CPU Scaling on Linux

August 21st, 2007 A guide to easily disable IPv6 support on your Linux workstation / server: 1. Add the two lines, if not already present, to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off For Fedora 7 you should add the command to blacklist instead as shown below: blacklist net-pf-10 Note: I haven't personally tested on Fedora 7.

January 2nd, 2009 Root login is perhaps one of the very few vulnerabilities that Linux operating system faces. A person can hack into your system as a root user easily and can play with security settings.

August 29th, 2007 Singapore Airlines always stands out in in-flight entertainment services. KrisWorld, Singapore Airlines' in-flight entertainment system, offers on-demand movies in multiple languages (pretty good collection of latest movies in my experience), television shows, games and music to passengers.

April 24th, 2007 Following three simple steps now you can get rid of the pesky and sometimes buggy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications: 1. Reboot Windows in safe mode (hold the f8 key while booting and you will get the option to boot in safe mode) and then: 2.

April 29th, 2009 Many of us have Windows and Linux as dual boots on our computer. While its good to have them both to get the best of both worlds, there are some problems too.

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.

July 30th, 2007 It has been several months that I fully migrated to Linux. The whole company has moved 100% to Linux, all servers, desktop ...

October 13th, 2008 Linux Bandwidth monitoring tools and this (better explanations) - Instead of apt-get use yum install for RedHat based systems like Fedora, CentOS and obviously RedHat. Common Linux commands - The description is terse.

July 20th, 2007 What is auto reconnect in MySQL? The MySQL client library can perform an automatic reconnect to the server if it finds that the connection is down when you attempt to send a statement to the server to be executed. In this case, the library tries once to reconnect to the server and send the statement again.

May 21st, 2007 Microsoft's True Type fonts can also be used on Linux. Not only can they improve visibility, they are essential for proper look and layout if you are using Internet Explorer on Linux for testing etc.

May 16th, 2007 Google AdSense allows exporting the data in CSV format, suitable for Microsoft Excel. It doesn't open in Mousepad, Gedit or even in normal spreadsheet programs under Linux.

April 13th, 2007 I talked about xmemo as possible ipmsg alternative for Linux. Unfortunately I found it very much inferior to ipmsg.

January 12th, 2006 The US Patent and Trademark Office has declared that patents Microsoft holds on file allocation tables (FAT) are valid. Unfortunately Linux OS uses FAT file system.

April 30th, 2007 I am evaluating different Groupware packages (like Microsoft Exchange) for Linux. Can you please give some recommendations? So far I have come across Scalix, eGroupware, Open-XChange and The Horde project.

April 5th, 2006 In an interesting press release IBM announced today that Olympus America Inc., a precision company that designs and delivers solutions in healthcare and consumer electronics worldwide, has increased the performance of its Web services three times by supplementing its current environment with Linux on IBM's "all-in-one" System i business computing solution. I am not surprised.