Root, Qubits & Qualia

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo paste the following into the file [chromium] name=Chromium Test Packages baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople....

Every once in a while something comes along that really impresses me, my Blackberry was one of them, Virtual Machines another, my WD 1 Ter...

Since a signature has been discovered that conficker worm leaves on infected machines, you can now scan a machine and ask it ,if it is infe...

It often happens that you open up a file for editing using vi or vim and only when you come to save the file, you realise you did not ope...

On a Server and also on your own machine, kernel Upgrades can break already installed 3rd party Applications, since the application would ha...

To test your smtp server, to see if it is an open relay or to test if your authentication works on it. Use telnet to connect to the server...

If you want to protect files so that they can transverse across cyberspace safely, or you just want to protect them from prying eyes with a ...

often, I am working in a directory which has a long path eg /home/ cgerada /long/complicated/directory/structure/folder/ and then want to ...

Insert your DVD into your DVD Drive of your PC/Laptop and type the following in your terminal dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/cdrom_image.iso your D...

ssh reads configuration information from a config file (if you have one) before connecting to a machine. This way you can tell ssh how you...

To Play a commercial DVD in your media player you need to install libdvdcss you will also need libdvdcss to be able to backup your commercia...

RPM Fusion Repository provides software that the Fedora Project or Red Hat doesn't want to ship. You will find software like VLC media p...

uname -a will give you information about your running Kernel. To find out what Distribution is installed on a Particular system try one the...

cp / usr /share/ zoneinfo /Africa/Johannesburg /etc/ localtime will set your time zone to SAST you can simply use Tab auto compl...

To backup your mysql database type the following. mysqldump -u username -ppassword database_name > dump. sql make sure not to leave a spa...

ever forgotton your root password for your mysql database, or any other users password for that matter, no problem here simply stop mysql b...

for names in user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 do useradd $names echo "anypassword" | passwd --stdin $names done or you can type...

To Remove all console beeps whilst running X type xset b off this will disable the annoying console beeps for all programs. To remove ...