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FAQ Updates – Feb/07/2011

by Vivek Gite on February 7, 2011 · 3 comments

Our FAQ section is updated in last few days with new howtos:

  1. HowTo: Upgrade Debian 5.0 (Lenny) To Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
  2. regionset: Linux Set / Change DVD Region Code
  3. HowTo: Check Ram Size From Redhat Linux Desktop System

    4. (25 more howts and faqs…)

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Shred tip: Securely remove multiple files so no one can recover file again

by Vivek Gite on July 17, 2007 · 3 comments

Shred utility overwrites a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it if needed. The idea is pretty simple as it overwrites the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. By default file is overwritten 25 times. I’ve seen cases where law [...]

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Linux display bandwidth usage on network interface by host

by nixcraft on April 19, 2006 · 5 comments

iftop command listens to network traffic on a named network interface, or on the first interface it can find which looks like an external interface if none is specified, and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. iftop is a perfect tool for remote Linux server over ssh session. iftop must [...]

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How do I Use Multiple Screens on One Terminal over ssh session?

by Vivek Gite on December 7, 2005 · 16 comments

Most of the time GUI is not available on remote Linux system, you login over ssh and start to work, if you need to run two or three task at a time, you login over ssh two or three times. However, with screen windows manager utility you can run multiple terminals at the same time from single console login over ssh session (UNIX guru uses the term called multiplexing for this concept). Any seasoned Linux admin should be aware of this nifty tool :)

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