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Hard Link vs Soft Link 5 Nov 2012 | 10:30 pm
Once again, one of the very basic question asked in the interviews, What is the difference between Hard links and Soft links. You can explain few basic things, but emphasizing on internals about the l...
Ubuntu 12.10 released 19 Oct 2012 | 12:31 am
Ubuntu 12.10 is released, and they says Avoid the pain of Windows 8. The all-new Ubuntu 12.10 is out now. Few of the features which are included in the latest release are:
TechTip: Email Alert on SSH login 16 Oct 2012 | 11:27 pm
To secure your machine, there are hundred different things you can do, but the most important thing is to know what's happening on your Machine. In that getting the alerts as soon as someone login is ...
Understanding Linux / Unix Filesystem Inode 4 Oct 2012 | 09:57 pm
Inode, short form of Index Node is what the whole Linux filesystem is laid on. Anything which resides in the filesystem is represented by Inodes. Just take an example of an old school library which st...
TechTip: Find Physical Location of a file on disk 3 Oct 2012 | 08:57 pm
When you create a file, it's stored in different blocks/locations of the filesystem/disk depending upon the size of the file. Though you don't need to know the physical location of the disk in normal ...
TechTip: DNS works on TCP or UDP ? 29 Jul 2012 | 02:56 pm
This is one of the very basic questions asked in a lots of interviews: Which protocol DNS works on - UDP or TCP ? And when you don't know the answer then you take a wild guess and says anyone of them ...
TechTip: DNS works on TCP or UDP ? 29 Jul 2012 | 02:56 pm
This is one of the very basic questions asked in a lots of interviews: Which protocol DNS works on - UDP or TCP ? And when you don't know the answer then you take a wild guess and says anyone of them ...
GNU Screen – Advanced Tutorial 24 Jul 2012 | 12:03 am
The Basic working of the screen is already explained in my previous article and if you are not really looking for advanced screen features, you should look at my previous screen article. The link for ...
GNU Screen – Advanced Tutorial 24 Jul 2012 | 12:03 am
The Basic working of the screen is already explained in my previous article and if you are not really looking for advanced screen features, you should look at my previous screen article. The link for ...
Screen – Linux Administrator’s Best Friend 13 Jul 2012 | 02:18 am
I know most of you have already heard about screen, but for those who haven't, it is one of the best thing you could know and work with, being in this field. Everyone of you must have run through the ...
