Like me if you are trying new gnome extensions, you might want to try Gnome shell on Ubuntu. Following is all you need to run on your box to get gnome3 working. sudo apt-get install gnome-shell Once done, logoff & login with gnome shell
Full Story »[PHP] Simple email crawler
guest post is written by Jigish Thakar As name says it is really very simple email crawler, all you need to input is one URL and it will start crawling through the web and extract the Email address’s from all these crawled pages. Of course after extracting we need to store same email address somewhere and we have [...]
Full Story »Ubuntu -Disable Guest Login
With the installation of ubuntu 11, you’ll find guest login. Which can be used by anyone, although your files are safe, if you wish to block guest login you need to add guest false in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. sudo vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf #add following line at the end of file. allow-guest=false Now after reboot, you’ll not find option [...]
Full Story »Ubuntu- Unmanaged Interface after PXE Installation
If you are using PXE to liveboot Ubuntu OS for rescue or for other purpose than installation, you’ll never face this issue as Ubuntu works great over PXE. But if you Install Ubuntu using PXE, you may not get network connectivity on freshly installed Ubuntu OS. In network settings, you’ll find Wired Unmanaged To resolve [...]
Full Story »PXEBoot GParted
Requirement PXE Server GParted bootable iso / zip Download & mount / extract Gparted iso / zip. Create folder on existing pxe server mkdir -p /tftpboot/images/gparted/ #copy vmlinuz, initrd & filesystem from gparted mount location cp live/vmlinuz /tftpboot/images/gparted/ cp live/initrd.img /tftpboot/images/gparted/ cp live/filesystem.squashfs /tftpboot/images/gparted/ append following lines in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default label GParted Live MENU LABEL GParted [...]
Full Story »PXEBoot Clonezilla
This article will help you boot clonezilla using pxeserver. Clonezilla will be handy if you wish to backup / restore partition / hdd using network. So far with XP ghost was one of convenient way for many sysadmins. With the use of Windows 7, image size is increased to few GBs. Requirement PXE Server CloneZilla [...]
Full Story »XenServer Extend LocalRespository – add new hdd
Earlier we have covered how to Add new hdd to existing xenserver. This article is to extend existing Local Repository. Since Xenserver is using lvm, this can easily be done using standard commands that we use to extend Linux Lvm. Here we are extending existing Local Repository 2 using /dev/hdb create partition on new hdd [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Fedora 15 to 16 -using shell
To upgrade fedora to latest version F16, run following commands. yum -y update rpm –import http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386 rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-16-1.noarch.rpm yum upgrade -y If you get error, you may continue using –skip-broken. I was getting following error, hence had to remove libnih Error: Package: libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.i686 (@fedora/15) yum remove libnih Or the easiest way would be to [...]
Full Story »Fedora 16 – How to change boot sequence -Grub2
This is for dual boot os users, there are many who prefers dual boot to keep another OS optional. For any reason if you wish to change boot sequence unlike grub, grub2 requires couple of commands to run. Here will take example to keep Windows as default boot. First of all find menuentry for Windows [...]
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