Skype is proprietary software that allows you to make calls over the Internet using your computer. Skype uses decentralized peer-to-peer technologies, so your calls do not go through a central server, but through distributed servers and other users. It uses its own proprietary communication protocol to achieve this. Installing Skype Since Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), [...]
Update: Install skype from Canonical Partner Repository in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin(RECOMMENDED) Skype is one of the best Video calling software,owned by Microsoft.Skype offer lot of features like Video call,Direct Phone call,Chatting and more. Features: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/features/ Click here to Download the 32 bit version for ubuntu. Click here to Download the 64 bit version for ubuntu. [...]
iftop listens to network traffic on a named interface, or on the first interface it can find which looks like an external interface if none is specified, and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. iftop must be run with sufficient permissions to monitor all network traffic on the interface. By default, iftop will look up the hostnames [...]
Ifstat is a little tool to report interface activity, just like iostat/vmstat do for other system statistics.
The X Window System ( X Window System , also known as X11 because currently using version 11 of the system) provides 3 mechanisms that allow users to transfer data from one window to another: Selections, cut buffers, and drag-and-drop . Since the two windows may be handled by two different applications, these mechanisms require two different clients connected with the [...]
In most of our schools and offices several websites are blocked. Most of these offices and schools are using a proxy server such as squid along with squidguard or danceguardian to achieve access restrictions on users. Most often, the sys admins forget to block internet traffic using other protocols such as ssh , ftp etc. [...]
Fatresize is a command line tool for resizing MS Windows FAT16 / FAT32 file systems. Installation $ sudo apt-get install fatresize How to use: Fatresize follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-’). A summary of options is included below. -h –help: Show summary of options. -s –size: [...]
Starting vsftpd The methodologies vary depending on the variant of Linux you are using as you’ll see next. Fedora / CentOS / RedHat With these flavors of Linux you can use the chkconfig command to get vsftpd configured to start at boot: [root@bigboy tmp]# chkconfig vsftpd on To start, stop, and restart vsftpd after booting [...]
The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server components , by abstracting these components from the software that manages them. Modern mother boards are compatible with this standard. For a lay user it means that the BIOS settings can be watched from your [...]
Some time you will find CD images with .img extensions. IMG files are raw-data copies of optical media and are primarily used to store CDs with odd properties,such as sectors which need to have read errors when read. Conversion to ISO format removes this information,as ISO format does not support this. You can manipulate such [...]
