Most techies and developer prefer using the terminal on Linux. If you are like me a heavy command line interface (cli) user than you will find these simple tips useful.

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By now all of are aware how Mansoor Peerbhoy has masterminded the terrorist attacks in India, that he showed no remorse in killing non-muslims and doesn't care about the consequences, you are also aware how he was a senior software engineer working at Yahoo / Zimbra and earning an impressive salary by Indian standards. You also heard that he was very tech savvy and an nginx (a faster and apparently better alternative to Apache web server or even lighttpd web server) expert. Just how tech savvy was he?
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The best part of Linux (imho) is the ability to replicate not only the operating system or the data but also the boot loader. This allows you to have two identical disks running RAID-1, each of which are independently bootable, should one of them fail. You can also add spare disks to the RAID-1 array to automatically use it to reconstruct the RAID-1 array when one of the RAID-1 disks fail. However configuring it may not always be the simplest. Let's see if I can simplify it for you.

The boot partition (primary partition) can be RAID-0 or RAID-1. Only a fool would configure the boot device as RAID-0 and double the chance of failure. However when you configure it as RAID-1, you are making your boot device 100% redundant and hence robust.

BTW: Can you boot on a RAID-1 drive in Windows? … NO.

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What do you mean by a virtual world? A place where you can come and work and chat and play and leave. What if I tell you about a whole new world where you can live, breathe, play, sing, dance, do every damn thing you can do in this (sorry?) life of yours? And what if "I make you an offer that you can't refuse?" No I am no Godfather. Today, let me take you to a virtual world where you can be a REAL millionaire! The world I am talking of, may seem nonexistent unless you bump into your Second Life. You can earn real money from a virtual world and loads of it. You can be a millionaire in less than 2 years! You can earn hefty amount just by spending some time in the internet and you can even rule a world (let it be virtual for now) of your own and make your own rules. All of them and more @ Second life. And here I am with not 1 or even 2 but 18 unique ways to guide you to a hefty check in US dollars through Second life. So start living now! Read more (2025 words) »

We recently bought several high-end computers for our office which will be used with Linux Operating System (Fedora 8). The price including VAT comes to Rs 19, 214. It includes 17″ Samsung TFT monitor, 1 GB ZION RAM, Intel Pentium 2GHZ Dual Core, 160GB SATA HDD and more. The Motherboard comes with 1 Gigabit LAN. Here is the complete spec with price:
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When using enums in a switch, it is almost natural to assume they will be used like a regular switch. Unfortunately to accomodate enums, Java had to enhance its specification and enums in switch behave differently than regular switch statements in two significant and non-trivial ways.

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You may run Java processes in the foreground or in many cases they may be run using cron jobs or during system startup, as background processes. How can you find out stacktraces of any running Java process? But first how can you even know their name & process id's?
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CodeWeaver's released a port of Google's Chrome browser (review) for Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser. CrossOver Chromium is free and available for download here.

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Windows XP, arguably the world's most popular operating system, still has lots of tricks up its sleeve. Today I will show you some hidden rooms, some unknown corners in this column that you never knew existed but wanted to. Without much ado lets login to the wonderful hidden world of Windows XP.
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Gone are the days of buggy, infection prone and troublesome Internet Explorer. The popular product on which I want to throw some light on, needs no introduction. The Guinness record holder software for maximum downloads in a single day is the one and only Firefox. I am writing this article in Firefox and most likely you are going to read it in Firefox too (if not, why not?). So without further ado, I present you my choice of top 10 smart browsing hacks for Firefox:

1. How to rapidly search any website directly from Firefox address bar
2. HowTo Speed Up Firefox
3. How to Type URL's Faster
4. How to Navigate Tabs from Keyboard
5. How To Make Advanced Configuration Changes in the Guts of Firefox
6. 13 Time saving Keyboard shortcuts in Firefox
   
7. How To Get Rid of The Annoying Scroll Tab Button
8. How to Start Downloading Add-ons Immediately
9. How to Limit Firefox Memory Usage
10. How to Move or Remove The 'close tab' Button
11. Bonus Tip: How to Personalize Firefox

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