This article explains how to create new Raid Group and bind LUN using Navisphere GUI on a EMC CLARiiON storage array.
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cURL is a software package which consists of command line tool and a library for transferring data using URL syntax.

cURL supports various protocols like, DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP.

This article provides 15 practical cURL usage examples.
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Probably you know how to check the existing routes (or even add/modify routes) on Linux using route or netstat command. You migh’ve done that without understanding much about how IP routing works.

This article will help you understand the principles behind the IP routing and how it works.

This is the 1st part in the IP Routing series of articles.
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In the part I of the Linux Threads series, we discussed various aspects related to threads in Linux.

In this article we will focus on how a thread is created and identified. We will also present a working C program example that will explain how to do basic threaded programming.
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This article explains how to upgrade Big-IP F5 load balancer LTM software from version 9 to 11 (and from 10 to 11)

There is no direct upgrade path from 9 to 11. So, we have to first upgrade from 9 to 10, and then from 10 to 11. Starting version 10, upgrading F5 is fairly straight forward, as you can do it from the GUI itself (which is explained below).
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File locking is a mechanism which allows only one process to access a file at any specific time. By using file locking mechanism, many processes can read/write a single file in a safer way.

In this article we’ll explore the different types of Linux file locking and understand their differences using an example program.
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Suppose we want to add some extra functionality in the Linux kernel.

So the first idea that strikes the mind is to enhance the kernel by adding more code to it, compiling the code and getting the new kernel up.
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