Jan 252011
 

linux-mac-windowsOr put a different suit to your Linux….
Maybe you love so much the look of your previous operating system?
Or do you want to change the operating system to your friend or relative pretending nothing?
Whatever our penguin can also change clothes and pretend to be a Win or Mac

Let’s see some packages and distributions that make this transformation. Continue reading »

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Jan 232011
 

police-tuxThanks to a group on LinkedIn where I belong I found this interesting article done in two parts by Angelo Fonzeca that i propose to you:

Introduction

Are you afraid that your system has been compromised by an unauthorized access?
Have you got discovered abnormal network activities and/or do you suspect that your system has been infected by trojans or rootkit?

Is this your nightmare? 😉

No problem, there are some solutions which help system administrators to check their servers, so they can be more serene about security of their machines.

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Jan 222011
 

collageIt happens every now and then you have a set of photos and you want to do with them  a background image with a collage of them, or perhaps a mosaic, it’s possible in Linux?

Sure there are Gimp and Picasa that among the many features that give even offer these options, but there are other programs, perhaps smaller and simpler to just make this work?

Once again, Linux does not disappoint, and today I want to present three projects to create photo collages.

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Jan 192011
 

bandwOne element that is often not know, or that should be measured after a problem statement or after a change in the infrastructure is the network . But how do you accurately measure the speed between two servers?

Someone use ftp, scp or other file transfer protocols, these can give some indication, but probably you’ll measure the limit of your disks or CPU.

In this article I will show you 3 way to measure the bandwidth from the command line, without using the disks.
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Jan 182011
 

awkAwk has always been for me a source of great hatred and love, isan incredibly powerful command with which it is possible to build real programs.

In this article I will give you 6 examples ready for use with your preferred terminal.

AWK is a data driven programming language designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. It is an example of a programming language that extensively uses the string datatype, associative arrays (that is, arrays indexed by key strings), and regular expressions.

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