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- Tell the truth to your user
Recently government banned couple of sites (including blogspot.com, geocities.com etc). Government send noticed to more than 150+ ISP to block these sites. Now these sites were not accessible from India (since last Friday).
Since I work at one of the leading Indian ISP, we started to receive call from angry users. This is the one of [...] - Linux Iptables block remote X Window server connection
It is true that connections to remote X Window servers should be always made over SSH. SSH supports X windows connections. So my task was allow X over ssh but block unprivileged X windows mangers TCP ports.
The first running server (or display) use TCP port 6000. Next server will use 6001 and so on upto [...] - May the best team win
Few hours left for FIFA world cup final match. May the best team win :). Today is Sunday and I have a holiday.
Update: It is official; Italy is FIFA world cup 2006 champion. I must say it was one of the best world cup finals I ever seen. - Howto: Linux write (burn) data to DVD or DVD/RW
In order to write DVD/DVD-RW from shell prompt you need to install a package called dvd+rw-tools.
DVD is another good option for backup, archiving, data exchange etc. You can install dvd+rw-tools with following commands. Also note that this package works under *BSD, HP-UX, Solaris and other UNIX like operating systems.
Debian installation:
# apt-get install ‘dvd+rw-tools’
Fedora Core Linux [...] - Moving Outlook email (data) to Linux Evolution mail client
First I thought switching from MS-Outlook to Linux Evolution mail client will be easy. Evolution does not offer any easy method to import data directly from Outlook. After searching bit, I found solution:
MS-Outlook -> Import using Mozilla Thunderbird Under Windows -> Import using Evolution under Linux
You know, that is why I like the idea of [...] - Ubuntu Linux Live CD: Save data & desktop information on USB device
Ubuntu Linux (other Linux distro also able to save data on external USB hard disk or USB pen drive) has this nifty feature that allows saving both data and desktop settings. Update: According to official web page you need to use casper-rw lable instead of casper-cow. So make sure you use casper-rw if you are [...]
- Solaris 10 6/06 Released with ZFS support and available for download
I can’t wait to get my hands dirty with new release+ZFS…
Finally new updated Solaris 10 6/06 Release with ZFS is here. You can download it from Sun’s web site.
According to Sun blog, it has following features:
* ZFS, Sun’s revolutionary new filesystem
* Predictive Self Healing for x64 systems
* Predictive Self-Healing SNMP trap support
* Postgres [...] - Why Joyent moving to Sun Niagra servers and OpenSolairs
This is a great read about how they are moving to Sun Niagra server and open Solairs from DELL+FreeBSD/Linux combination!
FTA, “…Start with a few white box PCs built from spare parts, add a distribution of Linux, sprinkle in some great search technology, wave of the hand and capital and voila: you have a data-center [...] - Linux - lspci command to list and find out more information about all PCI devices
lspci is a command for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices connected to them.
lspci is useful when you want to diagnose problems or when you want to report bugs related to pci devices.
Report PCI devices bugs
$ lspci -vvx
See how PCI devices connected to PCI bus
With [...] - Ubuntu Linux: Creating ethernet alias for eth0 network device
Explains how to configure ip aliasing under Ubuntu Linux operating system so that you can have multiple IP address assigned to a single interface.
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