How to add/remove Programs in Ubuntu

Posted on the November 30th, 2009 under Ubuntu by Stephen

How to add/remove Programs in Ubuntu…

Iptables cheat sheet

Posted on the November 17th, 2009 under Cheat Sheets by Stephen

Iptables is a Linux kernel-level module allowing us to perform various networking manipulations (i.e. packet filtering) to achieve better network security…

How to install Google Chrome in Ubuntu 9.10

Posted on the November 16th, 2009 under Ubuntu by Stephen

Here is how to install Google Chrome in Ubuntu 9.10. This will install Google’s browser version, not chromium version…

Beautiful Web Hosting Datacenter Images

Posted on the November 11th, 2009 under Zzzz Other by Stephen

I really enjoy working in a datacenter. The servers, the switches, the lights, the design, the network cables, the noises,… all of those things really fascinate me. Just so beautiful!!! Spare a minute to check out some of the datacenter images I have collected…

How to easily find flu shot location near you

Posted on the November 10th, 2009 under Zzzz Other by Stephen

Today, Google announced a new feature for its Google Maps service allowing us to easily find available flu shot location near us. I tested around and found it to be very useful and highly recommend you to check it out if you have not.

Original Google Hardware

Posted on the November 10th, 2009 under Zzzz Other by Stephen

As I was sorting through my big collection of images, I stumbled upon these, the original google hardware. These were the first machines Google started its business with. Make me think.

Exim Cheatsheet

Posted on the November 9th, 2009 under Cheat Sheets,Server Admin Tips by Stephen

Exim is the widely used open source mail transfer agent. It is responsible for routing, delivering, and receiving email messages.

Ubuntu LAMP cheat sheet

Posted on the November 9th, 2009 under Cheat Sheets,Ubuntu by Stephen

LAMP: the server software bundle consists of Linux – Apache – MySQL – PHP; Linux: operating system; Apache: http server; MySQL: database software; PHP: scripting language

Unix FIND command cheat sheet

Posted on the November 8th, 2009 under Cheat Sheets,Server Admin Tips by Stephen

“find” is a Unix command allowing us to search for files within our Unix/Linux operating system. “find” can search for files based on name, type, size, modified date, etc… I often use “find” to locate bad files within a hacked system/account.

RPM cheat sheet

Posted on the November 6th, 2009 under Cheat Sheets,Server Admin Tips by Stephen

RPM cheat sheet

Screen cheat sheet

Posted on the November 6th, 2009 under Cheat Sheets,Server Admin Tips by Stephen

Have you ever experienced a problem where your remote shell session got killed (for various reasons) in the middle of your crucial software compilations? Well it has happened to me several times ranging from getting killed in the middle of php compilations, easyapache, kernel :oops: , to a new cPanel installation 8O. Most of the time, it was due to bad internet connection. To combat with this, a friend suggested me a solution: to use Screen.

Ubuntu 9.10 Add/Remove App

Posted on the November 5th, 2009 under Ubuntu by Stephen

I have played quite a bit with Ubuntu 9.10 Software Center and to be honest, I miss the previous Add/Remove app. The old Add/Remove has popularity rating which is really useful in helping selecting the app; as there are more than one app to accomplish certain tasks.

To those of you who would like to bring back the old Add/Remove, it is pretty easy:

Applications => Ubuntu Software Center => then search for "Add/Remove" without quote

=> double click on Add/Remove Applications and hit Install.

Add/Remove should now appear under System => Addministration.

Useful MySQL shell commands

Posted on the November 4th, 2009 under MySQL,Server Admin Tips by Stephen

MySQL cheat sheet. In this post, I collected the most useful MySQL commands via shell. I will keep expanding as time goes.

 

How To Run Multiple Operating Systems At The Same Time

Posted on the November 2nd, 2009 under CentOS,OpenSUSE,Operating Systems,Ubuntu,VMware,Windows by Stephen

I have been dual booting Windows + Linux for a long time but that has been a pain. Since Windows is my primary environment, I am unable to work on my Windows apps every-time I boot into Linux. I require both Windows and Linux to be available to me side-by-side so that I can conveniently experiment with Linux whenever I want to. In this article, we will find out how to easily run multiple Operating Systems at the same time, in a single machine.

How to Install OpenSUSE 11.1

Posted on the October 30th, 2009 under OpenSUSE by Stephen

Please use this instruction set to install OpenSUSE if you:

1. Use OpenSUSE 11.1 CD
2. You want to reformat your entire hard drive, not dual booting