In this eBook giveaway content, you can win any one (or even all three) PDF version of the books mentioned below. Book 1: Learning Nagios 3.0 To win Learning Nagios 3.0 book, answer the following question. A random winner will be selected from the comment section who answered this question. Question: What is your favorite System [...]
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My Grandma is on twitter. So, I don’t have any choice other than using twitter now. Some of you are already following us on twitter. Thanks for your support. Apart from getting the awesome thegeekstuff blog posts on twitter, following are few reasons to follow thegeekstuff on twitter. Cool Linux and Open source related Quotes [...]
Question: How to change date and time on my Ubuntu or Kubuntu laptop ? Answer: You can change the date and time from the ‘Time and Date Settings window’ that can be launched using one of the following two methods. Method 1: Launch From System Tray Right click on the date and time that is [...]
Question: How to create and maintain a very simple project that has few tasks in my Ubuntu laptop (or) Are there any other methods to take notes and organize ideas instead of using the inbuilt Text Editor that comes with Ubuntu? Answer: Tomboy Notes is the notes maintaining mechanism gets ported with Ubuntu by default. [...]
Question: Firefox 3 is very slow on my Ubuntu. How do I fix it? Some of the symptoms are — Scrolling on a web page is very sluggish, running flash on Firefox is slow, watching YouTube videos on Firefox is slow. Answer: Try one of the following suggestions, which may solve the Firefox running slow [...]
Regular expression is always a tricky subject for programmers and sysadmins. When you are dealing with lot of text handling, understanding how to use Reg-ex effectively is essential. It is hard to remember the syntax of reg-ex on top of your head all the times. Regular Expressions Cookbook is written by the Reg-Ex Jedi Master [...]
PuTTY is hands-down the best SSH client for Windows. It’s light-weight with a single putty.exe file and nothing else to install. A while back we wrote about 12 powerful PuTTY software add-ons and explained how PuTTY connection manager can help you to organize PuTTY SSH sessions in tabs. In this article, let us review 10 [...]
Question: How do I open Firefox browser (or any application) automatically when I login to Ubuntu or Kubuntu ? Answer: In gnome you can do this by using the gnome-control-center (or) directly from the “Startup Application Preferences” as explained in this article. Step 1: Go to “Startup Application Preferences” in Ubuntu Go to System -> [...]