Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011. May his soul rest in peace. The three stories Steve Jobs shared in the 2005 Stanford Commencement Address says all about this great man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UF8uR6Z6KLc Full text version of the above great speech. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma [...]
Ramesh Natarajan
If you are looking for a easy way to backup your files and folders on your Ubuntu desktop, use Pybackpack GNOME graphical user interface backup tool. Pybackpack stands for “Python Backpack”. This uses rdiff-backup in the backend to take the backup. When you execute the rdiff-backup for the 1st time, it takes a full backup, [...]
Cisco ASA stands for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance. Cisco ASA acts as both firewall and VPN device. This article explains how to setup and configure high availability (failover) between two Cisco ASA devices. On a production environment, it is highly recommended to implement two Cisco ASA firewall (or VPN) in high available mode. This way, [...]
Bash is the default shell on Linux. If you are spending lot of time on Linux environment, you should master the Bash command line features to become efficient. Apart from being an interactive shell, Bash is also a scripting language, which allows you to automate your tasks using Bash shell scripting. Bash 101 Hacks is [...]
If you are a Linux sysadmin, you might not want others in your IT department, who has physical access to the server, change anything from the GRUB bootloader menu that is displayed during system startup. GRUB is the 3rd stage in the Linux boot process that we discussed earlier. GRUB security features allows you to [...]
If you are running tomcat server that runs only on HTTP, follow the 2 easy steps mentioned below, to configure tomcat for SSL. 1. Create Keystore using Java keytool First use the keytool to create a java keystore as shown below. Make sure to note down the password that you enter while creating the keystore. [...]
htop is just like top, but on steroids. Once you are used to htop, you’ll never go back to top again. htop is a ncurses-based process viewer. You can interact with the htop using mouse. You can scroll vertically to view the full process list, and scroll horizontally to view the full command line of [...]
Implementing a disaster recovery solution is dependent on three factors — 1) time 2) resources 3) dollar amount. Most organization doesn’t even think about DR when the IT infrastructure and applications are running without any issues. Most of them think about DR only when something breaks that created a major negative impact on the business. [...]