When you are working on several issues at once and you email people back and forth regarding those issues, then enabling threading on your Thunderbird is very useful. Threading keeps your emails grouped together and makes it as a single conversation. If you ever used Google’s Gmail service, you’ll be…
YUM stands for Yellowdog Updater Modified, is an open source command line package management for RPM-based distributions of Linux like RedHat, CentOS, Fedora etc. YUM allows system administrators to easily Install, Update, Search or Uninstall software packages on a system. System admnistrators can configure YUM to use third party repositories to install packages automatically…
When at the Linux or Unix shell typing in long file names or directories can become a burden, and to eliminate this there is a very handy feature called “Command-Line completion”. Command-line completion (also tab completion/auto completion) is a common feature of command line interpreters, in which the program automatically fills in partially typed…
Mathematical genius, popularly known as the “Human Computer” Shakuntala Devi’s 84th birthday is celebrated by Google with a doodle on its India home page. Google salutes Shakuntala Devi’s awesome ability to mentally solve complex mathematical problems with Doodle that resembles a calculator. Shakuntala Devi was born to an orthodox Kannada Brahmin family on November 4, 1929, Bangalore,…
All windows users who connect to their Linux servers need not have an introduction about this great tool called PuTTY. But for those who are new, here is what PuTTY is : It is a SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. Click here to…
In day-to-day activities administrators needs to perform regular backups on their Linux servers. Being myself an administrator, i would recommended “tar”, the simple and the best tool. Backup doesn’t mean all the files and folders need to be backed up ! Sometimes we may have to exclude directories like template…
A system administrator will always think of automating most of his tasks so that the routine jobs are completed easily and he can concentrate on some other critical things. One such task is Unix account creation. Here we will see how we can create an Unix account using shell script….
WordPress is a web software used to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress being SEO friendly is more popular among the CMS powered websites. Started off in 2003 with fewer users, today it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and…
As humans we should accept that mistakes like : rm -rf * would happen ! As saying “Prevention is better than cure” we shall follow best practices during execution of such critical commands. Here we will be showing you how to avoid such accident deletions on your Linux machines. Still if…
Being a website analyst have seen visitors coming to the website uses multiple devices with different screen resolutions. It would be similar to any website of present day. So if you are targeting internet audiences, your website need to be responsive as the users use multiple screen sequentially to access…
Keyboard navigation make visitors experience at websites more easy and faster. I saw few websites with Keyboard navigation and found it was quickest and thought to implement it on my website too. Below i will be showing you how you also could implement it on your website powered by WordPress….
A system administrator needs to be writing a lot of scripts for monitoring and maintaining systems. During the scripting, sometimes you may need to refer few native bash commands in perl. Here i will be showing you how to call those native commands in perl scripts : Step 1 :…
Many of you would have used Unix/Linux machines in your day-to-day activities. Here i will be showing you some surprises out of the Linux commands you use daily in your activities : 1. CP Command : Many of you using Linux would have used cp command for sure. But i…
Have you heard of this WildCat not those from jungles of Africa ? Then better read through. You will be fascinated with this new invention. WildCat is a 4-legged robot being developed by Boston Dynamics, which records a 16 mph speed on flat terrain but isn’t as fast as its…
Everyone of us would have definitely played or at least heard of the Super Mario game. Now to play the same Super Mario game, you need not buy Nintendo Entertainment System! Instead, you can just pop over to Full Screen Mario and play online ! Josh Goldberg has unleashed this HTML5, in-browser classic Super…
Knowing these time-saving shortcuts can be a great boon for those using the shell often. Most of these commands are used for quick navigation or editing of the current command line. 1. To Move Around : To move to the beginning of the current line, Ctrl + A To move…
One of our Techglimpse reader “Clooney”, asked us whether it is possible to install packages from CentOS repository on a RHEL machine ? Sometimes you might want do that; For instance, you might have installed RHEL operating system, but you should have registered to Red Hat Network for using its…
India being the world’s fastest growing market for YouTube, Google is now eyeing on India’s vast population through TV’s. Francisco Varela, Global director of platform partnerships at YouTube says that : “Google and DTH cable providers in the country are in talks to bring YouTube videos directly to TV sets”….
Good news! IRCTC seems to be working on a modified UI! Today, I was accidentally landed onto the new booking user interface of IRCTC. But this din’t happen always as this new page came up only few times, which made me to conclude that, IRCTC is testing the new UI…