shuf: To shuffle the contents of a file

The command shuf can be used to shuffle the lines of a file passed to it as input. Example if we have a file,temp, with the following cont...Read more »

Secondary DNS Server in CentOS 6

Please consult this article to check how the primary DNS Server is configured in chroot environment. A secondary DNS Server is used as a ba...Read more »

Full Circle Magazine Issue #62 Has Been Published, Grab It While It's Hot!

Full Circle Magazine as known as FCM is a free and independent monthly magazine which  provides news, tutorial, and user submitted articles ...Read more »

Fedora 17 for IBM System z 64bit official release

Dan Horák from Red Hat announced the availability of the latest Fedora release for System z today. Congratulations to the team for making t...Read more »

Primary DNS Configuration in CentOS 6 (with chroot)

This tutorial is based on a previous  article . The configuration of the DNS Servers using chroot and not using chroot are almost identical....Read more »

Different ways to clear the terminal

Here are 5 different ways of clearing the terminal . 1. Using keyboard: cntrl + l 2. Command-1: clear 3. Command-2: tput clear 4....Read more »

modprobe: FATAL: Module module.ko not found.

If we insert a module, say module.ko, using modprobe as below $ modprobe module.ko We will get the error FATAL: Module module.ko not fou...Read more »

Coloring the output of cat

The "cat" command is used to view the contents of a file with out opening it. The cat displays the contents of the file in the s...Read more »

Nitroshare: Share File Over Local Area Network (LAN) on Windows and Linux Easily

I have written a post about using Pidgin to chat and file transfer  over Local Area Network (LAN) with some tricks. There is another applica...Read more »

Why Can’t Linux Crack The Desktop?

Image by KobraSoft Many computer geeks have always held Linux in high regard. They endlessly talk about its stability and security features....Read more »

200 Followers... THANK YOU!

Just a quick note to express my gratitude to all of you following my blog in any way, shape or form. I am extremely thankful for all the su...Read more »

LANGKAH MEMBUAT DISTRO LINUX SENDIRI BERBASIS UBUNTU 12.04

Pada kesempatan ini saya mau berbagi tips bagai mana cara membuat distro linux sesuai keinginan kita sendiri, pada praktikum kali ini saya i...Read more »

Tracking the executing time of a process.

The command "ps" is used to list the processes running in the system and by adding various options to it we can get different info...Read more »

Using renice to change the priority of a process

In the post "Using nice" we saw how we can assign a custom nice number to a process while launching it. If we want to change the...Read more »

Using nice to assign priority to process

Linux maintains the priority of normal processes using a number called as the nice number. The number ranges from -20 to +19 and smaller t...Read more »

2 NVidia Geforce GTX 690 Base Graphic Processor

ASUS GeForce GTX 590 Technical Detile : Fully support NVIDIA 3D Vision to bring fully immersive stereoscopic 3D experience to the PC! Transf...Read more »

rm: cannot remove `temp': Is a directory

The command "rm" is used to remove or delete files. When it is used to delete a folder you might see this error For example if w...Read more »

AMD Radeon HD6990 Graphic Card

XFX AMD Radeon HD 6990 830M 4 GB GDDR5 Four MINIDP DVI PCI-E Video Card, HD699AENF9 The XFX HD6990 is the fastest video card on the planet a...Read more »

Formatting text files using fmt

The command fmt allows us to format text file easily. We saw how to wrap text using the command fold, in the post " Wrapping lines i...Read more »

Brackets: New Comer In Free Open Source Code Editor for The Web

Bracket s is a new comer for code editor for HTML, CSS, and Javascript web development published and maintained by Adobe. It's built ba...Read more »

Bewary the puppy

It has been a while since I had a look at Puppy Linux ( www.puppylinux.org ). so I thought I'd have another go to see how much it has i...Read more »

Benarkah Install Linux itu Sulit?

Dari beberapa obrolan di Millis ataupun Jejaring Sosial (Facebook) banyak orang bilang kalau Install Linux itu sulit dan terlalu ribet, di d...Read more »

How To Install Linux Kernel 3.5RC on Ubuntu via PPA

Linus Torvalds released the 3.5-rc3 and said that there's fewer commits. Below are some changes of Linux Kernel 3.5: A fair amount of In...Read more »

Discovering Zorin OS

It was due to having Agoraphobia that I spent most my time gathering as many tips and tweaks that I could find to make my system run as ligh...Read more »

What is cross compilation

The desktops and laptops that we use in our daily lives are mostly of x86 architecture. Thus when we compile a program using the usual compi...Read more »

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 released

Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.3. The kernel level is now kernel-2.6.32-279.el6, for the main bug fixes see the kernel up...Read more »

Using fork and exec

We have seen the introducition to using fork as well as using the exec family of calls in the following posts. Now we can combine these t...Read more »

Take Photo and Video From Webcam With Cheese

Recently, I wrote CamDesk which can display webcam stream as a widget on the desktop. Today, I'd like to write about an application whic...Read more »

Mageia 2: smooth upgrade

A few days ago I wrote about my first impression of Mageia 2 KDE from a Live run. I can’t say that it was without issues, but they were not...Read more »