by Ramesh Natarajan on May 27, 2009
I’m happy to announce the winners of the 3 books giveaway contest. that was conducted on behalf of 1st Birthday of the blog.
Following three winners are randomly selected and will receive the corresponding PDF version of the book.
The three winners were selected from the total of 200 awesome comments. Please note that these winners were selected by the random number generator at the random.org as shown in the following image.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on May 27, 2009
by SathiyaMoorthy on May 26, 2009
This article is part of the on-going Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks. Firefox is the best browser. Vim is the best editor. Wouldn’t be nice if we can combine the best browser (Firefox) with the best editor (Vim)?
In this article let us review how to use the powerful Vim navigation concepts inside Firefox Browser using the Vimperator Firefox add-on. Let us review how to install the vimperator plugin, and 8 Powerful features to make Firefox browser behave like Vim.
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by SathiyaMoorthy on May 21, 2009
Some of the open source application comes with postgreSQL database. To maintain those application, companies may not hire a fulltime postgreSQL DBA. Instead they may request the existing Oracle DBA, or Linux system administrator, or programmers to maintain the potgreSQL. In this article let discuss about the 15 practical postgresql database commands which will be useful to both DBA and expert psql users.
Also, refer to our previous article about 15 Practical PostgreSQL DBA Commands.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on May 18, 2009
Starting up and shutting down the oracle listener is a routine task for a database administrator. However a Linux system administrator or programmer may end-up doing some basic DBA operations on development database. It is critical for non-DBAs to understand the basic database admin activities.
In this article, let us review how to start, stop, check status of an oracle listener using Oracle listener control utility LSNRCTL.
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by SathiyaMoorthy on May 14, 2009
In this article let us review how to perform normal file operation on a compressed files using the powerful Linux Z commands.
Some of these z commands uncompresses the file temporarily in the /tmp directory to perform the specified operation. Some of the z commands uncompresses it on the fly to perfom the specified operation. But, under any case, z commands gives the peace of mind, as you don’t want to worry about the overhead of uncompressing the compressed file to perform an operation.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on May 11, 2009
I’m happy to announce book giveaway contest, where you can win PDF version of one of 3 books mentioned below. All you have to do is leave a comment and let us know your favorite Linux distribution and why you like it. The winners will be announced on May 27th (the first birthday of this blog).
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by Ramesh Natarajan on May 8, 2009
When executing the apt-get update command, you may get “There is no public key available” warning message. This article explains how to solve this warning message message.
$ apt-get update
Get:1 http://debian.linux.org.tw lenny Release.gpg [394B]
Get:2 http://debian.linux.org.tw lenny Release [73.6kB]
Get:3 http://debian.linux.org.tw lenny/main Packages [5310kB]
Fetched 5384kB in 1m13s (73.5kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
4D270D06F42584E6
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
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On the 1st Birthday of the blog, I would like to sincerely appreciate all the support provided by you to keep this blog going. Exactly a year ago on this day (May 27th, 2008), I posted my first article 
My name is Ramesh Natarajan. I will be posting instruction guides, how-to, troubleshooting tips and tricks on Linux, database, hardware, security and web. My focus is to write articles that will either teach you or help you resolve a problem. Read more about