This is more for the enterprise minded folks out there, but is still relevant on a site devoted to Linux. Red Hat has increased the release life cycle of RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 to 10 years. This is significant to the enterprise mainly due to the fact that upgrades due to “end-of-life” software and,…
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Ubuntu 12.04: Unity 5.2 Ready for testing with two new features.
The Unity Developers have readied their latest version of Unity with the release of version 5.2 for the 12.04 version of Ubuntu. So What’s New? A couple of major things in my eyes, See below. Multi-monitor support You will now see launchers on each of your monitor, and when you scroll across…
Video Editor OpenShot get’s new release with ‘tons’ of bug fixes
OpenShot the Open Source video editing software has found itself with a new 1.4.1 release! Originally according to the developers it was only supposed to be a quick bug fix release, but that changed and they crammed it with new features such as new titles and effects. Highlights of The 1.4.1 release include: New…
Studying for the RHCE? Check out CentOS!
So, has anyone here self-studied for the RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer)? Need longer than the 30 day trial of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) to hit the books? Take a look at CentOS! CentOS is quickly becoming the preferred Linux server OS of choice for many people as it is exactly the same as…
Openbox 101
Figured I’d start a short series on the powerhouse window manager that is Openbox! I’ve recently become an Openbox refuge as Gnome 3.2 is still just too buggy for me. Even though I’ve come from a very “functional” desktop (Depends on your opinion), I find that Openbox is a VERY flexible and powerful window manager….
Fun: Take the Linux Distribution Test
Can’t make your mind up on which Linux Flavor to Install? How about taking the Linux Distribution Chooser Test! Click HERE to see which Distribution suites you best.
Finding a File containing a particular text string in Linux server…
You need to use grep command. grep searches the given input FILEs for lines containing grep command form (syntax)amatch or a text string. grep “text string to search” directory-path Examples For example search for a string called redeem reward in all text files located in /home/tom/*.txt directory, use $ grep “redeem reward” /home/tom/*.txt Task: Search…
Keeping your traffic safe in public places with SSH Tunneling…
Using OpenSSH on a Linux/Unix system you can tunnel all of the traffic from your local box to a remote box that you have an account on. For example I tunnel all of my outbound E-mail traffic back to my personal server to avoid having to change SMTP servers, use SMTP-AUTH, etc. when I am behind…
Clustering with CentOS 5.5 and “luci”….
Ok, so i deal a lot with clustering of servers or “Nodes” and i will briefly show a really simple cluster which only has a shared or “Highly available” IP address in the case of one of the Nodes failing the shared IP address will still be up and pingable if you where to combine this…
Auto Provisioning of Phones (Snom/Polycom/YeaLink/Linksys)
Using PHP and MySQL to integrate with Hello Telecoms existing systems I created scripts to enable phones to be auto provisioned from there Hosted VoIP Portal, to enable plug’n’play of most phones for both the private network and phones out on the Internet using Snom’s redirection server and some custom XML RPC coding. This has…