Everyone in the Gnu/Linux world (or so i think) has been worried by the news about Microsoft buying Skype, the standard de facto about VOIP.
But perhaps there is a hope for a future more open on this software ?
Skype 5.5 beta support now the protocol XMPP, this has been added mainly to talk with facebook, in fact the leader of the social networks uses this protocol for his chat, but this could open a lot of possibility for Skype also for other things.
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Sometimes happen that you find a sequence of links, and so you should start to follow them to see exactly what command are you about to run, or the directory used in that symbolic link, or you can use readlink.
readlink it’s contained in the package coreutils, so you should already have it.
The basic usage is readlink symbolic link and this give as output the full path of the real file following all the symbolic links.
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On our server we have (or you should have) tons of logs generated, logs from various daemons (ssh, iptables, monit, fail2ban), services (apache. nginx, bind, ftp, etc.) and system logs (syslog, messages, kernel).
So i’m sure that every day you check these logs and look if something bad has happened, right ?
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Today post is by Juan Valencia, originally posted on his blog (available also in spanish there), i’ve found it really interesting with in deep articles regarding rsync,ssh and other commands.
When you receive and need to handle multiple text files that use characters that are not natural to the English language, you may run into the problem that is dealing with different character encodings. This is particularly noticeable in websites, where if the browser try to interpret the text file with an encoding that differs from the actual encoding that the file is using, we can see strange symbols where this characters were supposed to show, but it is not limited to websites, any program that is made to work with languages other than English may present a similar problem if it is not appropriately handled.
These are some sites i use to do specific jobs, i hope they can serve you well too.
Corntab
Corntab is a simple crontab web GUI
With Corntab you can ensure that you always have the correct crontab syntax.
Don’t worry about forgetting the proper crontab format because Corntab let’s you click on all of the crontab options and outputs your crontab entry in real-time.
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