Virtualbox 3.2 released and Ubuntu installation instructions included
Thu, 05/20/2010 - 02:38 — david23The VirtualBox team released a significant new version of Oracle VM VirtualBox(TM), its high performance,cross-platform virtualization software. VirtualBox 3.2, the first Oracle branded release since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc by Oracle Corp. earlier this year, contains many innovative new features which deliver further significant improvements in performance, power and supported guest operating system platforms.
Check for entries in passwd file
Mon, 05/10/2010 - 00:51 — sandipCheck for entries in passwd file:
getent passwd username >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "user exists" || echo "user does not exist"
id username >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "user exists" || echo "user does not exist"
awk -F':' '$1 ~ /^username$/ {print $0}' /etc/passwd | grep -w username >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "user exists" || echo "user does not exist"
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Bash Tests
Mon, 05/10/2010 - 00:46 — sandipThe test application, also known as [, is an application that usually resides somewhere in /usr/bin or /bin and is used a lot by shell programmers to perform certain tests on variables. In a number of shells, including bash, [ is implemented as a shell builtin.
Difference between test, "[" and "[[":
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How to mount RAMFS, TMPFS in Centos, Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu
Sat, 05/08/2010 - 11:58 — ashwinmuni
How to Use and mount RAMFS / TMPFS in Centos, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu?
Definition :
RAMFS Random Access Memory Filing System
TMPFS Temporary File System / Temporary File Storage
RAMFS / TMPFS is used to assign or allocate a part of physical memory to be used as a individual partition which can be used for storing data (Reading, Writing) like all other Disk partition on a system. As the data is stored in RAM (Random Access Memory) it is much faster than that of writing or reading from a System Physical disk Partition.
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Using a .forward to send mail to multiple accounts
Thu, 05/06/2010 - 14:00 — sandipIf you put multiple addresses in a .forward file, a copy will be sent to each.
remoteuser1@domain.tld, remoteuser2@domain.tld, remoteuser3@domain.tld
If you want to keep a copy of each message in the original account without causing a .forward infinite loop, put a backslash in front of the account name.
\localuser, remoteuser1@domain.tld, remoteuser2@domain.tld, remoteuser3@domain.tld
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Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Screenshots Gallery
Wed, 05/05/2010 - 09:56 — david23This Screenshots Gallery includes installation process,Desktop,applications
aTunes - Full-featured audio player and manager
Wed, 04/28/2010 - 04:01 — david23aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.
Drupal, Pressflow and Varnish Caching
Mon, 04/26/2010 - 23:41 — sandipLots of useful varnish and caching tips...
How to install Monitorix in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Server
Sat, 04/17/2010 - 05:41 — david23Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitorize as many services as possible. At this time it monitors from the CPU load and temperatures to the users using the system. Network devices activity, network services demand and even the devices’ interrupt activity are also monitored, and more.
The current status of any corporate server with Monitorix installed can be accessed via a web browser.
Howto Install RED5 Flash Media Server in Fedora 11, Centos 5.4, Redhat
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 01:49 — ashwinmuniRed5 is an Open Source Flash Media Server written in Java that supports:
* Streaming Audio/Video (FLV and MP3)
* Recording Client Streams (FLV only)
* Shared Objects
* Live Stream Publishing
* Remoting (AMF)
This is a reverse engineered open source project which aims to produce a feature-complete implementation written in Java. It os one of the Full implementation RTMP servers other than:
Adobe Flash Media Server,
Onlinelib VCS Video Communication Server
Wowza Media Server
WebORB Integration Server
haXeVideo