WordPress nice permalinks is a way to create search-engine-friendly url's for WordPress posts and pages. Unfortunately they sometimes do not work out-of-the-box even after choosing your permalinks structure in WordPress options. I have found the issue in Cent OS 5 as also in Fedora versions before.

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Windows control panel is something we are all familiar with in Windows operating systems like Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista & now Winfows 7. Unfortunately you may not have found a direct equivalent of Windows Control Panel which works in Linux systems like RHEL, Cent OS, Fedora, Ubuntu etc. Despair no more for the solution is here.

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In Linux networking is easy, you just have to know how. We will discuss below how you can find your own machine's MAC address for all the attached ethernet cards as well as MAC addresses on other machines in the network.

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Before you read, here is a bit of warning: Do not install the nVidia driver that you can download from nVidia.com. The driver may install fine but may not work as you expect. You are much better of following the procedure below. Full article (140 words) »

vi / vim as well as nano are the most popular editors on Unix / Linux / Solaris and for hardcode Mac OSX users too. For developing / debugging we need line numbers. A way to get them to display line numbers doesn't jump out easily from their big documentation, so here are my simple tips on how you can display line numbers in vi / vim and nano editors. Full article (148 words) »

Today I am going to tell you the trick to hack your root passoword in Linux if you are too forgetful to remember it or you have legal permission to enter a server run by a different admin and by any chance he forgot to give you the root password. Full article (385 words) »

All you have to do is run this simple one line command:

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm && yum -y install vlc python-vlc mozilla-vlc

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You probably know how you can format a Linux partition:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda

This formats the partition with ext3 file system. However did you know how to extract maximum space out of this partition, especially if it a large partition?

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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.

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Have you ever searched scp manual for ways to append a file using it? scp is an excellent command to rapidly copy files and directories to / from a remote location. Unfortunately it is of no help when you just want to append a file over ssh connection. Here is a simple solution to append a file over ssh connection in either direction: Full article (104 words) »