Today Ram disk has saved (at least temporary) one more customer, this time we have moved his Lucene index files from a local disk to /dev/shm; I’m not so sure this is the real solution but at least this gave us better performance and some time to study his application, to see if and where […]
7 Useful Commands For Ubuntu Linux Newbies
Author: Kurt Hartman Jr First off, let me say that I am not one of those terminal loving Linux fans. I think it is cool and all, but I tend to save the command line for things that either require doing a massive batch job, or when I need to do something really specific. Other […]
Do more with less
Guide on the secrets and tricks of the less command for Gnu/Linux and Unix terminal.
readlink – Follow links for you
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 […]
More SSH Port Forwarding
Today I present another excellent article by Domenico Raffaele originally presented in his blog (in Italian) where you can find many other interesting articles about hacks and VoIP. This is his second article about ssh. Here you’ll see some example of SSH Port Forwarding, sometimes called SSH Tunneling, which allows you to establish a secure SSH […]