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Step-by-Step Bugzilla Installation Guide for Linux

by Ramesh Natarajan on May 17, 2010

Bugzilla is the best open source bug tracking system. Very simple to use with lot of features. Bugzilla allows you to track the bugs and collaborate with developers and other teams in your organization effectively.

This is a detailed step-by-step bugzilla installation guide for Linux.
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Inotify Example: Introduction to Inotify with a C Program Example

by Balakrishnan Mariyappan on April 16, 2010

inotify utility is an effective tool to monitor and notify filesystem changes.  You can specify a list of files and directories that needs to be monitored by inotify. This library is used by various other programs. For example, CPAN module Linux::Inotify is developed based on this library.
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Can You Find it? 7 Easter Eggs on Linux / UNIX related software

by Ramesh Natarajan on April 2, 2010

Here is a list of few Easter eggs on Linux/UNIX and related software.

How did your Easter egg hunt go? Did you find anything? Share it with us.
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April Fool’s Day Pranks for Geeks

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?

  1. 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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Top 5 Best Databases

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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30 Things To Do When you are Bored and have a Computer

by Ramesh Natarajan on March 1, 2010

  1. Read technical blogs – There are several technical blogs out there, that produce high quality content everyday. There are 9600+ technology blogs listed in the technorati website. Browse the technology blog list and read the blogs that interests you. As always you can browse our blog archive section for Linux related articles that you might have missed.

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How to Use Google Buzz in Gmail

by Ramesh Natarajan on February 11, 2010

If you are using Gmail, you might have already noticed the ‘Buzz’ link right below your inbox. Google buzz looks like a combination of twitter and facebook features built right in your email application.

What do you think about Google Buzz? Do you like it?
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2 Books Giveaway Winners: Linux Firewall and Learning jQuery 1.3

by Ramesh Natarajan on January 29, 2010

I’m happy to announce winners of the 2 books giveaway contest.

Following are randomly selected winners, who will receive the corresponding PDF version of the book.
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