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Ramesh Natarajan

Share Your Technical Knowledge – Become an Author

Sharing what I’ve learned with others is the main reason why I started this blog. Sharing my knowledge with others also helps me to dig deep into a topic and expand my knowledge. I’ve been working on some flavor of Unix since 1994 and I’m still learning. There are so many things to learn in [...]

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How To Install and Configure Vi / Vim Editor on Windows OS

Question: On UNIX / Linux platform, I’ve used Vi or Vim editors and I’m very comfortable with it. I would like to use Vim editor on Windows OS also. How do I install and configure Vim editor for Windows platform ( Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 )? Answer: Follow the steps mentioned below to [...]

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Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute Lisp 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 Lisp program and execute Lisp program on Linux or Unix OS. 1. [...]

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Top 10 Electronics Gift Ideas for Geeks

Holiday season is just around the corner. Amazon is giving good discount on lot of electronic items. Here is the list of 10 best selling electronics items. I personally own these except couple of items, which I’ve hinted to my wife as a potential gift item she could buy for me. :). Pick your favorite [...]

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Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute XQuery 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 XQuery program and execute XQuery program on Linux or Unix OS. 1. [...]

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4 Ways to Kill a Process – kill, killall, pkill, xkill

Kill command is use to send signal to a process or to kill a process. We typically use kill -SIGNAL PID, where you know the PID of the process. There are other ways to effectively kill a process — killing a process by name, killing a process by specifying part of the name, killing a [...]

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Ping Tutorial: 15 Effective Ping Command Examples

As you already know, ping command is used to find out whether the peer host/gateway is reachable. If you are thinking ping is such a simple command and why do I need 15 examples, you should read the rest of the article. Ping command provides lot more options than what you might already know. Ping [...]

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Black Friday Deal: 40% Discount on Vim 101 Hacks Book

Every black friday I end-up spending significant amount (mostly on gadgets) to take advantage of the awesome deals. Some of those gadgets are so good, I feel that I would’ve bought it even at the original price without discount. Getting high quality product on a discount just makes the deal that much sweeter. I would [...]

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