The clock that is managed by Linux kernel is not the same as the hardware clock. Hardware clock runs even when you shutdown your system. Hardware clock is also called as BIOS clock. You can change the date and time of the hardware clock from the BIOS. However, when the system is up and running, [...]
Ramesh Natarajan
TGS is 5 years old now. To celebrate this occasion my daughter Diya thought it is appropriate to throw a birthday party to her special stuffed toy friend. She has named her friend “Penguine”. Of all the stuffed toys, Daddy is always proud when the girls play with Penguine. Linux and Open source is an [...]
From DELL BIOS, you can view and changes several system settings. If you’ve not played around with these BIOS settings, just go to your system BIOS, view these settings to understand what they means. For most part, you don’t have to change any of these default settings. The screenshots below are from a DELL PowerEdge [...]
On an ongoing basis, I’ll be answering some of the questions asked by TGS readers. If you have any questions, use the contact form to get in touch with me. The following question is from one of the regular readers of TGS. Question: I’m trying to install a perl module using CPAN, and it displays [...]
If you are running DELL servers, it is recommended to enable BIOS password. This is will prevent accidental changes done to DELL BIOS settings by others who get physical access to the server. You can setup two different types of passwords in DELL BIOS: System Password: This will be prompted before the system can boot [...]
To connect to RabbitMQ message queue server, you can write your client program using various programming languages. Currently you can write client using C#, erlang, java, perl, PHP, python, and ruby. This tutorial explains how to install and configure RabbitMQ client library and AMQP PHP extension. Once you get AMQP PHP extension installed, you can [...]
RabbitMQ is an open source message queue server that you can use to build your messaging applications. In simple terms, you can put a message to the queue from one application, and retrieve the message from the queue from the same application, or from a different application. You can use wide varieties of programming languages [...]
Apache Solr is an open source text search server. It is based on the Apache Lucene search libraries. Solr does full-text search, highlight the hits, near real-time indexing. It has an extremely scalable search infrastructure that provides replication, load-balanced search query, and automatic failover. This can get the input data that needs to be indexed [...]