I’m happy to announce winners of the 3 books giveaway contest. Following are randomly selected winners, who will receive the corresponding PDF version of the book. Nagios and OpenLDAP Book Learning Nagios 3.0 Winner: Kobus Bensch (comment #7) Mastering OpenLDAP Winner: Scott D. Seem (comment #43) Since there were 127 awesome comments, I generated two [...]
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Question: How to run Windows applications in Ubuntu or any other Linux desktop distribution ? Answer: Install wine project, which will enable you to use Windows applications in Linux systems. What is Wine ? Using Wine you can execute Windows application like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc., in your Linux. Currently, 12,000+ Windows applications can [...]
Question: I use Linux on my laptop and desktop. But my Mom uses Windows operating system for her laptop. She is constantly getting infected with Virus and lost some important files few times. But, she still wants to use Windows. I can at least help her by installing some reliable backup software on her Windows [...]
Almost all applications have the ability to display Most Recently Used (MRU) documents. Vim editor by default does not have this feature. But using MRU.vim plugin, you can use the most recently used (opened and edited) files inside Vim editor as explained below. This article is part of the on-going Vi / Vim Tips and [...]
Question: What is a timed login in Ubuntu or Kubuntu ? How does it work? Answer: If you have created a guest account on your laptop, you may want the guest account to automatically login when you reboot the machine. But, wait. You don’t want that guest account to login automatically when you want to [...]
Question: I have purchased two monitors and connected to my desktop / laptop. How do I enable dual monitor setup in Ubuntu? Answer: You can enable the dual monitor from the Ubuntu display preferences as explained below. Click on System -> Preferences -> Display, which will display the following window. Make sure following are taken [...]
Viewing huge log files for trouble shooting is a mundane routine tasks for sysadmins and programmers. In this article, let us review how to effectively view and manipulate huge log files using 10 awesome examples. Example 1: Display specific lines (based on line number) of a file using sed command View only the specific lines [...]
Google is opening up the web developer preview of next-generation search engine for you to play around and provide feedback to Google. From Google website: For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a [...]