Apart from Virtulization we can shut servers whenever it is not being used to save power. At my office, we used to keep Antivirus server running 24×7, to get latest definition updates & to let users fetch. This was not necessary to keep server ON whole night as there was no user. Also we had [...]
Full Story »Create Linux / Windows 7 Bootable USB -Ultraiso
In Previous posts we have covered creating usb boot for fedora & ubuntu. Apart from unetbootin, you can use UltraISO to create usb boot. Following is the easy procedure to create bootable usb. 1) Connect USB device & select it int UltraISO. 2) Select Live CD iso image. 3) Click on Bootable from menu, choose [...]
Full Story »Recover Ubuntu & Win7 – after upgrading from XP
If you are using Ubuntu & XP dual boot, & if at all you are planing to upgrade / have upgraded to Win7, this post may be helpful for you. When you upgrade to Win7, due to Win’s unsocial behaviour to coexists with other OS, grub boot loader is lost. Here we assume, when you [...]
Full Story »Recover Firefox Lost Bookmarks
Most time of the day I surf through many web sites & come across many interesting articles / posts which can be useful in future. Like every web user I bookmark all these URLs. I use both Xmarks & Mozilla Weave to keep bookmark backedup, as bookmark is really important for me I do not [...]
Full Story »Yum – How to Exclude package update
In previous post we have covered openoffice-3.2 installation, by mow many must have noticed while running yum update, yum is trying to upgrade openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586.rpm which belongs to openoffice-3.2 installation. This package is being replaced by openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.14.fc12.i686 as a result openoffice does not work, to fix you need to reinstall openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586.rpm. To avoid it further, you [...]
Full Story »Installing OpenOffice-3.2 on Fedora
Download Openoffice-3.2 from torrent / web link given below. Download Torrent Download From Web Remove Older version yum remove openoffice.org* Install Latest one su #Extract tar package & access directory cd RPMS rpm -ivh *.rpm rpm -ivh desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9472.noarch.rpm OR #Extract tar package & access directory ./setup
Full Story »Installing OpenOffice-3.2 on Ubuntu
Download torrent Make sure you select with bundled jre package (ensure you selected version 3.2, till now there is no version 3.2 mentioned for Linux (x86) (with bundled JRE) (.deb based)), this may be rectified soon. Otherwise use following link to download from Web. Download The reason I recommend to download using Torrent is to [...]
Full Story »Experience with Xubuntu
In my previous post I have expressed my love to use Linux on my OLD COMPUTER, which is Celeron 1.1Ghz with 256 MB Ram. For a long time I have used Fedora on this computer, but with the latest versions I have experienced limitation of my pc. Since I use Laptop at home for most [...]
Full Story »Wpad file for Multiple Networks
WPAD.DAT Many of us use proxy configuration file to automate proxy configuration for users. It is easy to configure wpad.dat for single network, but for some reason if you wish to use same wpad.dat file for multiple networks following might help you. function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (shExpMatch(url, “http://localhost*”)) { return “DIRECT”; } if (shExpMatch(url, [...]
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