SoftMaker is giving away the 2008 versions of their Office suites for charity until the end of this month. This is a commercial verison of Open Office. It is lightweight, powerful and fast. MS file conversions are much better than OOo. More details can be found HERE. Get it quick and help them out!

When a kernel encounters certain errors it calls the “panic” function which results from a unrecoverable error. This panic results in LKCD (Linux Kernel Crash Dump) initiating a kernel dump where kernel memory is copied out to the pre-designated dump area. The dump device is configured as primary swap by default. The kernel is not…

Linux is quickly gaining popularity, but there are still many users afraid to convert as they are not familiar with the applications. ANIMATION SOFTWARE Blender 3D: Blender 3D is a high-quality, robust animation program with a steep learning curve and the ability to create commercial-quality 3D animations. The software is completely free, with extensive documentation…

If you are new to linux and are looking to try it out, you can use this online utility to give you more information to make an informed decision. The Linux Distribution Chooser is an on line application where you have to answer series of questions related to your needs, which also includes questions on…

You can repair a corrupted filesystem with the program “fsck”.The system utility fsck (for “file system check” or “file system consistency check”) is a tool for checking the consistency of a file system in Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. Note:-File systems must be unmounted, you cannot repair them while they are running….

The vrms (Virtual Richard M. Stallman) program will analyze the set of currently-installed packages on a Debian GNU/Linux system, and report all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed. Future versions of vrms will include an option to also display text from the public writings of RMS and others that explain…

To remove all the unused Linux Kernel headers, images and modules, simply run this command: dpkg -l ‘linux-*’ | sed ‘/^ii/!d;/'”$(uname -r | sed “s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/”)”‘/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d’ | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge Show installed but unused linux headers, image, or modules: dpkg -l ‘linux-*’ | sed ‘/^ii/!d;/'”$(uname -r | sed “s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/”)”‘/d;s/^[^…

I just came across another blog and seen this; WTF????

Show the ethernet status ethtool eth0 Force 100Mbit Full duplex ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full Disable auto negotiation ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off Blink the ethernet led ethtool -p eth0 Display all interfaces (similar to ifconfig) ip link show Bring device up (or down). Same as “ifconfig eth0 up” ip link set eth0…

Digital certificates have become an essential part of Internet commerce, and are widely used to verify the identity of clients and servers. All digital certificates contain an expiration date which most client and server applications will check before using the certificates contents. If a client or server application detects that a certificate has expired, one…