http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:50:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-email-client-for-linux-mac-osx-windows.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-email-client-for-linux-mac-osx-windows.html#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:41:12 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=5590 Linux comes with various GUI based email client to stay in touch with your friends and family, and share information in newsgroups with other users. The following software is similar to Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail and is used by both home and office user.
Webmail interfaces allow users to access their mail with any standard web browser, from any computer, rather than relying on an e-mail client. However, e-mail client remains extremely popular in a large corporate environment, small business, home and power users. An e-mail client (also mail user agent (MUA)) is a frontend computer program used to manage e-mail. Mail can be stored on the client, on the server side, or in both places. Standard formats for mailboxes include Maildir and mbox.
The following are top five amazing piece of cross-platform software from various projects to make your life easy with wide variety of plug-ins / add-ons.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-email-client-for-linux-mac-osx-windows.html/feed 122 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/website-load-speed-performace-testing-tools.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/website-load-speed-performace-testing-tools.html#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:42:34 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=5346 Research shows that if your web pages take longer than 5 seconds to load, you lose 50% of your viewers and sales. As a UNIX admin often end users and web developers complain about website loading speed and timings. Usually, there is nothing wrong with my servers or server farm. Fancy java script and images / flash makes site pretty slow. These tools are useful to debug performance problems for sys admins, developers and end users. Here are six tools that can analyzes web pages and tells you why they are slow. Use the following tools to:

• Make your site faster.
• Debug site problem, especially client side and server side stuff.
• Better user experience.
• Improve the web.

]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/website-load-speed-performace-testing-tools.html/feed 25 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/common-causes-of-downtime-in-datacenter.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/common-causes-of-downtime-in-datacenter.html#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 14:42:27 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=4895 Unplanned downtime may be the result of a software bug, human error, equipment failure, power failure, and much more. Last week was a bad one. We faced three different downtime:

• First, there was a fiber cut for one of our data center resulting into routing anomalies due BGP reroute. Traffic was rerouted but updating those BGP tables took some time to update.
• Someone from networking team failed to follow proper maintenance procedures for network device resulted into 55 minutes downtime.
• One of our SAN hardware failure - Many internal UNIX / Linux web applications use SAN to store data including file server, tracking apps, R&D apps, IT help desk, LAN and WAN servers failed. This one lasted for 12 hrs. It was stared around midnight. The vendor replaced entire SAN hardware. Now we have dual stacked SAN as a backup device for internal usage.

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/common-causes-of-downtime-in-datacenter.html/feed 6 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/seagates-barracuda-15tb-hard-disk.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/seagates-barracuda-15tb-hard-disk.html#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:53:46 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=3149 Wow, this is a large size desktop hard disk for storing movies, tv shows, music / mp3s, and photos. You can also load multiple operating systems using vmware or other software for testing purpose. This hard disk comes with 5 year warranty and can transfer at 300MB/s. But, How reliable is the 1.5TB hard disk?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/seagates-barracuda-15tb-hard-disk.html/feed 1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/opendns-sucks.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/opendns-sucks.html#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:52:38 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2828 I was a big fan of OpenDNS dns service, but recently I found few bad things about their offerings. I strongly recommend to stay away from OpenDNS service. ]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/opendns-sucks.html/feed 26 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/extended-warranty.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/extended-warranty.html#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:09:46 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2595 Most computer manufacturer try to sell you extended warranty or a service contract. These warranty covers two years past the manufacturer's one year warranty. Most sales employees or OEM (manufacturers) make so much commission from selling extended warranties. This is nothing but rip-offs, IMHO.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/extended-warranty.html/feed 17 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-for-business.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-for-business.html#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:19:59 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2454 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-for-business.html/feed 0 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-is-supposed-to-be-easy.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-is-supposed-to-be-easy.html#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:30:48 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2411 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-is-supposed-to-be-easy.html/feed 14 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/free-asus-linux-eee-pc.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/free-asus-linux-eee-pc.html#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:07:33 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2350 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/free-asus-linux-eee-pc.html/feed 1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-for-people.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-for-people.html#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 13:51:50 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2310 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-for-people.html/feed 1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-skips-linux-desktop-system.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-skips-linux-desktop-system.html#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:52:15 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2208 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-skips-linux-desktop-system.html/feed 2 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-market-share.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-market-share.html#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:27:21 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2196 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-market-share.html/feed 0 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-will-quietly-take-over.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-will-quietly-take-over.html#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:40:28 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2180 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-will-quietly-take-over.html/feed 0 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-software-developers.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-software-developers.html#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:58:57 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-software-developers.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-software-developers.html/feed 2 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/commercial-support-for-open-source-drupal.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/commercial-support-for-open-source-drupal.html#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:09:22 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/commercial-support-for-open-source-drupal.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/commercial-support-for-open-source-drupal.html/feed 0 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/legal-guide-on-free-software.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/legal-guide-on-free-software.html#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:00:03 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/legal-guide-on-free-software.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/legal-guide-on-free-software.html/feed 0 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/why-linux-desktop-does-not-spread.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/why-linux-desktop-does-not-spread.html#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:34:16 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/why-linux-desktop-does-not-spread.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/why-linux-desktop-does-not-spread.html/feed 8 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nokia-buys-trolltech.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nokia-buys-trolltech.html#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:17:29 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nokia-buys-trolltech.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nokia-buys-trolltech.html/feed 0 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/new-york-stock-exchange-moves-to-linux.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/new-york-stock-exchange-moves-to-linux.html#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:32:54 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/new-york-stock-exchange-moves-to-linux.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/new-york-stock-exchange-moves-to-linux.html/feed 4 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-success-story-paypal.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-success-story-paypal.html#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:07:46 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-success-story-paypal.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-success-story-paypal.html/feed 1