Every black friday I end-up spending significant amount (mostly on gadgets) to take advantage of the awesome deals. Some of those gadgets are so good, I feel that I would’ve bought it even at the original price without discount. Getting high quality product on a discount just makes the deal that much sweeter. I would [...]
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This guide will help you to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope to 9.10 Karmic Koala. This tutorial has total of 13 steps with appropriate screen shots. Step 1. Check the Ubuntu Version before Upgrade How to check the current version of Ubuntu? You have the following three options: Option 1: Check the /etc/issue file [...]
This is an essential book for both developers and sysadmins who write Perl code to get their job done. Perl is very powerful language and there are several ways you can code in Perl to get the same results. If you are not careful, you may end-up writing Perl code that is very hard to [...]
1. My Next eBook I’ve been working on my next eBook for last few months. It will be released before end of October. If you liked my previous free eBook, you will absolutely love this upcoming eBook. I’m looking for three reviewers who can help me review and provide feedback on the eBook before the [...]
Question: I need to share my code (config files, log files, source code etc.,) with group of people to get their feedback for debugging purpose. Can I put the code somewhere online and give a link to others to review, comment, or modify the file? What is your recommendation? Answer: When you are troubleshooting an [...]
In the Linux world, everything is free including operating system and desktop applications like Open Office. There are also thousands of open source free applications available for Linux. In the Windows world, everything has a price tag including operating system and desktop applications like Microsoft Word. There are also thousands of commercial applications that you [...]
Goosh (the unofficial Google shell) provides command line interface on the web for several Google services to keep the command line junkies happy. Linux users who are comfortable with command line prompt, will love to surf the net from command line using Goosh. Goosh allows you to quickly search Google web, images, news and Wikipedia [...]
I’m happy to announce winners of the 3 books giveaway contest. Following are randomly selected winners, who will receive the corresponding PDF version of the book. Nagios and OpenLDAP Book Learning Nagios 3.0 Winner: Kobus Bensch (comment #7) Mastering OpenLDAP Winner: Scott D. Seem (comment #43) Since there were 127 awesome comments, I generated two [...]
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