Whether you want to display an interactive map of local farmers’ markets on your blog or you’re trying to put together a clickable map displaying branch offices on your corporate Web site, there’s a good chance Polymaps can help you get the job done. It’s a free, open source JavaScript library for making dynamic maps [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How To Create Your Own Tinyurl Style URL Shortener A URL shortener is a service that takes in a long URL and gives you a short and memorable URL that you can distribute to anyone you want. The service takes care of redirecting users who land up at the [...]
I just upgraded from an older version of Lenny to latest. When the upgrade finished, an alert appeared noting that root partition is full. As a consequence of this problem (I think) I can’t save or print Open Office documents. Read more at Debian Administration
Today I was working on a script, and one of the subroutines needed simple seconds-based arithmetics with time. As you probably remember from my date and time in Unix scripts article, the easiest way to approach this task is to deal with the raw representation of date and time in Unix – the Unix epoch [...]
Since I began programming I have worked on at least a hundred different computers: university workstations, my own computers, dozens of employer and client workstations. Each one had a history file loaded with commands that I begged, borrowed, stole, sweated and cried for. Countless hours of work now long gone or rotting somewhere in a [...]
LaTeX is a document preparation system/markup language. LaTeX is most widely used by mathematicians, scientists, engineers, philosophers, scholars in academia and the commercial world, and other professionals. As a primary or intermediate format (e.g. translating DocBook and other XML-based formats to PDF), LaTeX is used because of the high quality of typesetting achievable by TeX. [...]
BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. Rid your system of old clutter including cache, temporary files, cookies, and broken shortcuts. Designed for Linux systems, it wipes clean Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild, VIM, XChat, and more. Read more at Ubuntu Geek
Linux support and documentation sites are a dime a dozen — and some aren’t worth much more than that. Here are a few sites that really give you your money’s worth . . . or at least they would, if most of the content wasn’t already free. This certainly isn’t a complete list of quality [...]
As you know, every file in your Unix OS belongs to some user and some group. It is very easy to confirm the ownership of any file because user id and group id which own the file are always linked to the file. However, sometimes you can’t tell which user owns the file, and today [...]
The X Protocol In X the X client, which is the application is completely separate from the display which is the X server. On a computer the X clients and the X server still use the X protocol but they are using it on Unix domain sockets which are faster than network sockets. Each managed [...]
Ever acquired a .daa disk image and been unable to burn it? DAA is the proprietary format of PowerISO – I’m not really a fan of proprietary formats of anything, and would rather have the disk as an ISO image. The PowerISO download page has a conversion tool for Linux which can be used [...] [...]
Let’s say you have a local Git repository on your workstation containing the source for a statically-generated website. You also have the origin repository stored on a server somewhere that also serves the website. The goal is to be able to edit files on the workstation and have the website update automatically once changes are [...]
I was standing in front of a problem while I built a NFS Storage Server. It is necessary for me to have redundancy in every point of view. I solved all redundancy issues I had by using server hardware with redundant power supplies, a Raid 1+ 0 Raid array and two UPS’s one for each [...]
If you want to convert .img to .iso file you need to use ccd2iso.This converts CD backup files created using the non-free CloneCD program to a format understood by most Free Software CD writing programs. Read more at Ubuntu Geek
Thursday, November 6, 2008 04:53:41 PM First you may wish to read part 1 and part 2. Create NX Server keys: # /usr/NX/scripts/setup/nxserver -keygen The critical output from your viewpoint is: NX> 704 Keys updated. NX clients should now use key: NX> 704 /usr/NX/share/keys/default.id_dsa.key NX> 704 to get connected to this NX server. Now you [...]