How To Speed Up Opening Linux Terminal & Running Linux Commands

September 3rd, 2008 Do you know that Linux automatically scales CPU utilization depending on processing requirements? This reduces power consumption and heat. However there are situations when CPU scaling monitor cannot properly identify CPU requirements.

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.

November 4th, 2007 I typically use more on Linux following my earlier habit from Unix & Sun / Solaris days; and it works fine for most purposes. However today I found out that less (which bills itself as opposite of more) is actually much more functional and useful than more.

March 13th, 2009 Annoyed with heap of file which are consuming space in your trash bin and you can not do a thing about it? Every time you try to delete it from there, permissions violation errors generate. So what do you do? Will you keep it there ignoring anything? Well, I haave a solution for you.

January 29th, 2009 Covering the most popular Linux shells (such as bash, ash, tcsh, ksh, korn, and zsh), this reference book shows how to use commands to create scripts within each shell and demonstrates practical applications for shell scripts (including retrieving information from Web sites and sending automated reports via e-mail). For each shell, the author discusses the commands available and explains how to use these commands to create scripts that can automate common functions and reports.

July 1st, 2007 Rapidshare is a popular site for sharing files. With free access you can only download 1 file per hour.

December 22nd, 2006 Linux colorization of terminal output is very straining to the eye even for normal people and absolutely meaningless for color-blinds. I find it irritating as it makes it really hard to see, especially with the bad choice of colors like deep-blue on black.

May 6th, 2007 Are you a developer or QA engineer, in an all Linux workplace, always looking for scarce Windows machines to run Microsoft Internet Explorer for testing your product and services? You could also be the manager who is eager to switch to Linux but cannot do so because of strong requirement for testing on Internet Explorer. You are in luck.

March 25th, 2009 The cron daemon is a long-running process that executes commands at specific dates and times. You can use this to schedule activities, either as one-time events or as recurring tasks.

August 26th, 2008 Every one in my company knows about pkill, an obscure Linux command because we use Firefox (we are 100% Linux based) as the default browser. What is the relation, you ask? The answer is simple.

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.

September 7th, 2007 I am wading through tons of material to improve my knowledge of Linux networking in general and more specifically to configure our firewalls properly and routing for multiple uplink providers with traffic shaping and failover. My earlier attempt to shortcut with eBox failed so this time I am going all the way.

January 3rd, 2009 Mac fonts are lucrative to say the least. But what if you are a Linux user? Can you use their fonts in your good ol' Ubuntu? Preferably yes.

January 3rd, 2009 Amongst the very few irreplacable products that Microsoft Windows have come up with, Microsoft Office 2007 is one very close to it. It has so many features and standardized options that I can not think openoffice as an alternative to it.

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.