Like most of you, I’m a huge fan of Firefox and use it intensively both at home and work. There are lot of useful add-ons available for Firefox, which makes customizing the browser very easy. A while back we discussed about 7 Essential Firefox Security add-ons that will help you browse the internet securely. [...]
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Around The Geek World is a monthly summary of interesting articles and news around the geek world with my brief comments. Red Hat 5.3 Released – There are some good enhancements on Virtualization and Disk encryption. Refer to this release notes for more details. Oracle 11g for Dummies – This new dummies book will give [...]
Update: Linux 101 Hacks eBook released. Get your copy. I’m currently writing my first book. I’m almost done with the Linux 101 Hacks eBook that covers 101 practical examples on various Linux related functionalists. The 101 hacks mentioned in this book will help you build strong foundation in Linux. All hacks in this [...]
It’s final now. Fedora 11 release name is Leonidas. My favorite choice Indomitable came as #2. The winner Leonidas got 1108 votes. The runner-up Indomitable got 1054 votes as shown below. Leonidas 1108 (Winner) Indomitable 1054 Claypool 944 Brasília 890 Blarney 890 Duchess 838 Zampone 716 Euryalus 713 View the official message here. Fedora Release [...]
Photo Courtesy: Dekuwa Happy New Year to all TGS readers. I Wish You and Your Family a Happy and Healthy New Year 2009. Happy New Year from me and my daughter 2008 was a fantastic year for my blog. I started this blog on May 2008 and currently it has 800+ subscribers and a Google [...]
Around The Geek World is a monthly summary of interesting articles and news around the geek world with my brief comments. List of Web’s Worst Predictions: Probably the worst prediction ever is “Computers aren’t for home use” – In 1977, Ken Olsen, the president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp (DEC). No wonder DEC [...]
Photo courtesy of sean dreilinger As part of Holiday Giveaway contest, I’ve asked you to share your favorite Unix command and a sample usage. Following are three randomly selected winners from the comments, who will receive Learning Nagios 3.0 PDF eBook as holiday gift. SLM Jason Akshay Sulakhe There were totally 61 awesome comments. Thanks [...]
It’s Holiday Season and I have a gift for you. As part of the first contest at The Geek Stuff, I will be giving away three copies of Learning Nagios 3.0 PDF version of the book written by Wojciech Kocjan. All you have to do is let us know your favorite Unix command with a [...]
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