by Ramesh Natarajan on March 31, 2010
Here is a list of few April Fool’s Day prank ideas to fool your friends. Some of them are very old and yet effective.
What is your favorite April Fool’s Day prank?
- Take a screen-shot of the desktop and set it as their desktop background image. Disable the top/bottom panels on their desktop to make this static desktop image looks like a real desktop.
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by SathiyaMoorthy on March 29, 2010
Netstat command displays various network related information such as network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, multicast memberships etc.,
In this article, let us review 10 practical unix netstat command examples.
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by Sasikala on March 26, 2010
In our bash introduction article, we learned that a shell-script file contains list of commands to be executed by the shell interpreter. In this article let us review about shell commands and its internals.
A command is a sequence of words. The first word indicates the command to be executed and remaining words are passed as an arguments, where arguments could be the options or parameters to the command.
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by SathiyaMoorthy on March 26, 2010
Question: How do I executed PostgreSQL Commands inside a Linux / UNIX shell script?
Answer: With the help of the psql interactive terminal, you can execute the psql commands from the shell script. For this purpose, you should enable the password less login by pg_hba.conf, or .pgpass.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on March 24, 2010
Sometimes Unix system administrators may end-up managing few Windows servers. If that ever happens to you, be prepared to do some basic administrative tasks on Windows. In this article, let us discuss how to sign microsoft executables and DLL.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on March 22, 2010
As part of the contest we conducted recently, we got 160+ comments from the geeky readers who choose their favorite database.
Based on this data, the top spot goes to.. drum roll please..
MySQL
If you are new to any of the top 5 database mentioned here, please read the rest of the article to understand more about them.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on March 19, 2010
Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute Haskell program on Linux OS. Can you explain it with a simple example?
Answer: In this article, let us review very quickly how to write a basic Hello World Haskell program and execute haskell program on Linux or Unix OS.
Also, refer to Haskell article on wikipedia to learn about this programming language.
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by Sasikala on March 17, 2010
Similar to awk built-in variables, awk also has lot of built-in functions for numeric, string, input, and ouput operations. Awk has the following three types of high level built-in function categories.
- Built-in functions for numeric operations
- Built-in functions for String operations
- Built-in functions for Input Output operations
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