Month: June 2010

Buying a good domain?

From techhamlet.com These days its really hard to find a good domain name… Most of them were already bought by domain squatters who will demand a huge amount of money to sell them! So, searching for a good and an available domain name will take a quite a lot of time. To solve this problem……


Linux uses around the world

From linuxtree.blogspot.com Many says that Linux is not for general users .I totally disagree with them . In this post i will explain how Linux is used all around the world . I know that Linux is slowly growing and it will take some more years to beat Microsoft windows .Recently i read many blogs…


8 of the Best Online Backup Services for Linux

From junauza.com A remote or online backup service has become quite an important tool for those of us who travel a lot and require some of our files on the cloud for easy access anytime and any place with Internet connection. It can also be useful for users who need to sync some of their…


5 tips for improving Linux security

From blogs.techrepublic.com.com What’s that you say? You don’t need to do anything about security on your Linux box because it’s Linux? Think again. Linux is an operating system that begs to be online, so it wants to be secure. Sure it’s fairly secure out of the box, but NO operating system is 100% secure if…


lessons from porn…

From linuxinsider.com Regardless of your personal feelings toward Internet porn, the sysadmins overseeing adult websites know a thing or two about scripting and scalability. For example, keep your database clean, embrace open source for as many commodity components as possible, and only use the latest technology if it adds actual value to your site, not…


Remove .cpan folder from the home dir

From thecpaneladmin.com A common question we get from cPanel administrators is whether it’s Ok to remove /home/.cpan since, on many servers, it tends to grow to a size exceeding 1G. The short answer is yes – that folder is used by cPanel and Perl, and contains perl module installation files. If you find that yours…


How Linux works: the ultimate guide

From tuxradar.com Ever wanted to learn how the internals of your Linux desktop work? Yes, we’ve already published detailed “how it works” articles about things like sound, the kernel, LVM, PAM and filesystems, but in this article we’re going to take a wider view and explain how everything in a modern Linux distro works, start…


Google Upload Command Line Tool

From google-opensource.blogspot.com Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt? We did, a lot, last summer. It made us want to say: $ google picasa create –title “My album” ~/Photos/vacation/*.jpg So we wrote a program to do that, and a whole lot more. GoogleCL is a command-line utility…


bash script for creating multiple accounts

From blog.amit-agarwal.co.in cat < login.sh for i in `cat logins` ; do login=`echo “$i”|awk -F”:” ‘{print $2}’`; comment=”`echo “$i”|awk -F”:” ‘{print $1}’`”; gr=”`echo “$i”|awk -F”:” ‘{print $3}’`”; echo “login –>> $login –Comment –>> $comment –Group –>>$gr –”; echo “useradd -c ”$comment” -d /export/home/$login -m -g $gr -s /bin/bash $login” useradd -c “$comment” -d /export/home/$login -m…


free shell account list

Have you ever needed a shell account to teach or explore with? Here is a large list of free providers with which you can connect to… shells.red-pill.eu