Around The Geek World is a monthly summary of interesting articles and news around the geek world with my brief comments. Amazon has released Kindle 2 (Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device — Latest Generation). Check-out the reviews, pictures and a video tour from gizmodo. Palm OS – Dead Forever. It’s sad to see Palm OS [...]
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Photo courtesy of Michael_P This article is written by Balakrishnan M Editcap utility is used to select or remove specific packets from dump file and translate them into a given format. Editcap does not perform packet captures like ethereal. Instead, it operates on the captured packets and writes some of the required packets into [...]
Like most of you, I’m a huge fan of Firefox and use it intensively both at home and work. There are lot of useful add-ons available for Firefox, which makes customizing the browser very easy. A while back we discussed about 7 Essential Firefox Security add-ons that will help you browse the internet securely. [...]
This post is written by SathiyaMoorthy. This article is part of the ongoing Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks Series. As a Linux sysadmin or programmer, you may do following repetitive tasks while coding bash shell script: Adding file header Adding function/frame comment Including default code snippet Performing syntax check Reading documentation about a function [...]
This is a guest post written by Dhineshkumar Manikannan. Network block devices are used to access remote storage device that does not physically reside in the local machine. Using Network Block Device, we can access and use the remote storage devices in following three ways on the local machine: SWAP File System RAW NBD presents [...]
I’m happy to announce the release of my first Free eBook — Linux 101 Hacks. There are total of 101 hacks in this book that will help you build a strong foundation in Linux. All the hacks in this book are explained with appropriate Linux command examples that are easy to follow. This free eBook [...]
Photo courtesy of secretlondon123 This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy This article is part of the ongoing Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks series. Mark is a bookmarking feature inside Vim editor, where you can bookmark a particular line and later return to it quickly. If you are using Vim editor regularly, this [...]
These geeks decided to show their appreciation towards Unix using their vehicle license plates. My favorite from this list is rm -rf *. Imagine someone who has no clue about Unix seeing this car on the road and trying to figure out what “rm -rf *” means. Out of these 12 awesome Unix [...]