Photo courtesy of sean dreilinger 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. Hacking Vim Book Winner: Pedro Parra (comment#37) Lighttpd Book Winner: [...]
May 2009
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 5 Basic Linux SSH Commands on the blog. Now the blog has over 120 high [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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