How to make mozilla thunderbird look up exchange server ldap directory and how to make autocomplete work with displayname instead of default common name attribute.
How to edit and recover windows registry offline from a ubuntu linux machines using freely available tools such as reglookup and chntpw.
With the rapid pace at which chip design is progressing, you see laptops and desktops being shipped with more than 4GB memory out of the box. A lot of you might be wondering whether to use 32bit or 64bit Operating System on these machines. Which ones are supported? Will upgrading to 64bit boost [...]
Tomcat, by default runs on port 8080. You may want to make it run on port 80. Changing the port to 80 in the tomcat configurations wont work as port 80 is a privileged port and needs user with admin/root privileges. Making tomcat run as a root user is a big no no as well, as it could compromise your tomcat installation. The best solution to make tomcat work on port 80 is to do a port redirect using iptables.
If you are a postgres dbs, here is a very handy online tool for you to visualize query plans.
Link : http://www.dbplanview.com/
Demo Output
SAR is a system activity collector and reporting tool on a linux system. Very handy for sysadmins to debug resource usage etc. and diagnose based on that. Comes as a part of sysstat package on Opensuse system. To enable sar reports on opensuse follow these steps,
1. Login as root
2. If sysstat is [...]
You can not always rely only on tools like the firewall even if they actually seem safe and secure. If your design is sound, and you remove what’s not in use, you may not have a single port you need to be behind firewall. In this article we will discuss how to design your lamp server, which all services to run and how to sercure each one of them.
Here are some geekish command line sequences which are very powerful and useful. Targeted for advanced level system administration and expects the audience to have familiarity with linux/unix command line utilities and basic commands such as grep, ps, find, ssh, awk.
Lubuntu = LXDE + Ubuntu. LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment based on Openbox window manager. Its lightweight, and resource friendly, claimed to use half the RAM than XFCE (Supposed to be lightweight version in comparison with Gnome) that comes with Xubuntu and much lesser than Gnome that is packaged with Ubuntu.
Suse Studio is a appliance creation factory initiated by Novell recently and is been limited to invite only users tilll date. You will have to fill up a form and request for an invitation from Suse Studio. According to Novell, Suse Studio is the industry’s first solution for creating and building fully supported software appliances….
Autoinstall script to setup nginx, php5, php5-fpm and configure it to get started within minutes. Nginx is a lightweight web server which has a very small memory footprint and consumes lesser resources as compared to apache, cherokee, lighttpd. It also serves requests faster. The script is been created for and tested on ubuntu 10.10 lucid lynx.
