I’m back into looking at the games side of Linux, and i must say that every time a take a look at it i find new interesting titles.
Today I’ll take a look at the generic genre of the “space game”.
Pioneer, Sun Blast and M.A.R.S
Jun 142011
Jun 142011
I think that sudo is become a wide used command with Ubuntu, where you don’t even have a root password, before that probably it was used only in some data-centers to restrict access to some commands.
sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file.
In this article I will show some uses a little less common for this command, for a general description of the command you could read the page about sudo on wikipedia
Jun 112011
If you are in charge of some services probably you have set up some monitoring system to notify you if something go wrong (email, sms or a Tweet), and so you can fix it quickly. But do you really want to be always available 24×7 every day of the year ?
I’m not for sure, so let’s see Monit, a fantastic tool that can manage some problems for you and let you enjoy your free time.
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Jun 102011
Today I present this excellent article by Domenico Raffaele originally presented in his blog (in Italian) where you can find many other interesting articles about hacks and VoIP.
I’ve already wrote about unusual use of ssh. I want to return to this topic fascinating and almost unknown, once again, and I promise I will not be the last.
X11Forwarding
Since time immemorial (in the scale of computing eras), is common practice to launch remote applications (Xclients) in a graphical environment, but using them from local (Xserver).
Consider the need to scan the internal network to which it belongs remote server2, which can be accessed remotely via ssh.
Jun 092011
OK, i’m 1 day late but now also http://linuxaria.com is IPv6 ready.
1 day late for what ?
Yesterday was the WORLD IPV6 DAY, but i’m sure that you have noticed it, i saw a lot of news about it in many Tech-related news sites.
Now linuxaria.com is hosted on a VPS on Linode and i must say that the setup it’s been “enough” easy, the more problems i got come from nginx, mainly for my lack of knowledge of IPv6 and this web server.
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