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 [...]
A QR Code (it stands for “Quick Response”) is a mobile phone readable barcode.simply encode a URL into the QR Code and then point a mobile phone (or other camera-enabled mobile) at it. If the device has had QR Code decoding software installed on it, it will fire up its browser and go straight to [...]
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. Follow the steps below to setup an an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. 1. Login as root: sudo su 2 Installing MySQL 5 First we will install MySQL 5: apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client You will be asked to [...]
Xrandr (X Rezise and Rotare) is a command line utility available in your Linux system for reseting and resizing your screen resolution. So, if there is any issues with your display, no problem you can fix it from a Terminal. First You have to find the possible resolutions with xrandr -q $ xrandr -q Screen [...]
World’s Cheapest Android, named Akash, produced in India. Students from India have a reason to celebrate the highly anticipated “Sakshat Tablet” was successfully launched in India on Wednesday. The tablet is called “Akash” and was jointly developed by India in collaboration with the Datawind, and can easily be obtained for ($ 45) 2,200/- in [...]
