While internet is not as smart as Angelina Jolie to make a website or a webpage disappear in 60 seconds, it still somehow manages to make some of the webpages disappear after a while. When you come across something interesting over the internet, you may either bookmark it locally or in a social bookmarking site [...]
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I’m happy to announce book giveaway contest, where you can win PDF version of one of the two books — Linux Firewall or Learning jQuery 1.3. How to enter the contest All you have to do is leave a comment with your answer for the following two questions: What is your favorite UNIX Firewall Software? [...]
The debootstrap utility installs a very minimal Debian system. debootstrap tool will install debian-based Linux OS into a sub-directory. You don’t need an installation CD for this purpose. However, you need to have access to the corresponding Linux distribution repository (for e.g. Debian or Ubuntu). For the purposes of this article we will discuss how [...]
Happy New Year 2010 to all TGS readers. I wish you and your family a happy and prosperous new year. With your tremendous support last year was a big success for the blog. The blog was started in May 2008. Within less than 2 years, the blog has grown to 19,000+ subscribers, and 200,000+ pageviews [...]
We’ve published quite a few high quality articles on UNIX/Linux and open source since this blog was started on May 2008. This post is a quick reference guide to all the popular posts in this blog. You might want to go through all these posts in detail by trying out the commands and software mentioned [...]
Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute Lua program on Linux OS. Can you explain it with a simple example? Answer: In this article, let us review very quickly how to write a basic Hello World Lua program and execute lua program on Linux or Unix OS. 1. [...]
Sharing what I’ve learned with others is the main reason why I started this blog. Sharing my knowledge with others also helps me to dig deep into a topic and expand my knowledge. I’ve been working on some flavor of Unix since 1994 and I’m still learning. There are so many things to learn in [...]
Holiday season is just around the corner. Amazon is giving good discount on lot of electronic items. Here is the list of 10 best selling electronics items. I personally own these except couple of items, which I’ve hinted to my wife as a potential gift item she could buy for me. :). Pick your favorite [...]
My name is Ramesh Natarajan. I will be posting instruction guides, how-to, troubleshooting tips and tricks on Linux, database, hardware, security and web. My focus is to write articles that will either teach you or help you resolve a problem. Read more about