Recently a colleague of mine should run multiple parallel jobs on a server (around 20 in our specific case), every job does “an elaboration” and this can take a time longer or shorter in respect of the others, once a job finishes its task it must read from a text file the first line that […]
How to reset your forgotten password on Gnu/Linux
This is an easy and simple solution based on the article by Umair, first posted on http://www.noobslab.com. it’s common that, if not you, one of your familiar or friends forget his login password, and if this is the only account available on the system this means that he’s usually locked out from his computer, luckily […]
FSgamer, a software to improve Game performance under Linux
More and more games are published for Linux and so it’s becoming more important to have a good performance with our beloved system, but some of the Desktop Environemnts can really slow down your gaming experience. There is an interesting report about this on Phoronix in the article: Gaming/Graphics Performance On Unity, GNOME, KDE, Xfce, […]
alias.sh puts your Linux shell alias on the clouds
If you are a Linux system administrator or you just wish to save a copy of your alias on the net, this is the service for you ! alias.sh is a new project that offer a simple service: allows you to manage all of your aliases online and browse the list of cool aliases submitted […]
Linux shell: understanding Umask with examples
In a GNU/Linux system every file or folder has some access permissions. There are three types of permissions (what allowed to do with a file of any kind, directory included): (r)read access (w)write access (e)execute access There are also other “special” permissions, but for this article the basic permissions will be enough to illustrate how […]