If you use Linux on your desktop, and you also happen to have a BlackBerry handheld device, you’re probably aware that Research in Motion, the company that develops the BlackBerry platform, offers nothing in the way of support for its devices on Lin
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Firefox is more than a browser. It’s a toolbox, just waiting to be filled with tools.
In this Pimp Your Firefox series of posts I’ll be sharing 12 truly useful Firefox extensions to suit different breeds of freelancers.
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In this Pimp Your Firefox series of posts I’ll be sharing 12 truly useful Firefox extensions to suit different breeds of freelancers.
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Ubuntu has caused GNU/Linux based operating systems to have many reviews recently, most concentrating on the more flashy parts such as the infamous rotating cube or wobbly windows provided by compiz fusion, rather than the things that actually make
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vmstat know as virtual memory statistics reporter, but it gives more information the just only virtual memory.
Besides memory, it covers overall CPU usage, IO, Swap, Proc, System interupts and context switching. vmstat is pretty easy to use, igno read more »
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Besides memory, it covers overall CPU usage, IO, Swap, Proc, System interupts and context switching. vmstat is pretty easy to use, igno read more »
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A couple of months ago, I discovered a tool called rpmrebuild while searching for a way to reverse engineer the files installed on an older Fedora system back into its original RPM package. Rpmrebuild is able to reconstruct an RPM by looking up the
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I am a Gmail fan. But Gmail Notifier only supports Windows and Mac. So I found cGmail for Linux. With cGmail, you can automatically check for new messages and see a snippet of text. cGmail is available for the GNOME desktop, and support gmail and po
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Certainly most of the Linux users would like to have their systems fully optimized for their rigs but do not have the stamina or enough knowledge to play with the Gentoo installation paradigm. But here comes the rescue — an apt-build goody available
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On most medium to large scale companies, most demanding production servers I know undergo a few minutes of executing batches of scheduled shell scripts or linux commands. These shell scripts and linux commands consume a lot of time and server work l
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Nobody ever thinks to mention .rpmnew and .rpmsave extensions to new users of Fedora or Red Hat derivatives. Instead, most users suddenly discover that these files are accumulating on their hard drives, or notice a fleeting message on the screen abo
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You can find the memory used by a program (process) by looking into /proc directory or using standard command such as ps or top. However, you must calculate all memory usage by hand i.e. add Shared Memory + mapped file + total virtual memory size of
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