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Have you ever wondered how your computer talks to other computers on your local LAN or to other systems on the internet? Understanding the intricacies of how computers interact is an important part of networking and is of equal interest to a sysadmin as well as to a developer. In this article, we will make [...]

Dennis Ritchie 1941 – 2011. May his soul rest in peace. Just like many of you, I fell in love with computers only after I stated learning C programming language, which is a gold standard for several other programming languages that came after that. I used to code very intensively in C programming language when [...]

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011. May his soul rest in peace. The three stories Steve Jobs shared in the 2005 Stanford Commencement Address says all about this great man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UF8uR6Z6KLc Full text version of the above great speech. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma [...]

Bash is the default shell on Linux. If you are spending lot of time on Linux environment, you should master the Bash command line features to become efficient. Apart from being an interactive shell, Bash is also a scripting language, which allows you to automate your tasks using Bash shell scripting. Bash 101 Hacks is [...]

I’ve been working on my next eBook for the past several months. Anything that is important and useful takes lot of time to complete. I’ve spend numerous sleepless nights in making this book very easy to read and understand by providing lot of examples. The book is in the final stage, and will be released [...]

Many of you asked me this question: I read your articles regularly and learned a lot from them. I would like to thank TGS. How can I help? The answer is simple: Help me grow the blog by personally recommending it to your friends and colleagues. Send them this welcome url, and request them to [...]

Digital information is overwhelming. If you don’t simplify your digital life, it will take over your real life. This article contains 20 tips to simplify your digital life. Use only two email accounts. How many email accounts do you have? If the answer is greater than two, you have some work to do. You just [...]