Linux Basics - How to use Cron to automate just about anything including backups

Cron is one of those little programs that can change the world. It’s a scheduling progam, meaning that you can give it instructions such as ‘at 10:45am on every Monday run this program’ and it will faithfully wait until the appointed time to do what you asked it.
Why is this useful? Cron can be used [...]

Cool Instant button generator

If you are one of those people who prefer to code rather than develop pixel-perfect buttons and graphics for the website you’ll find this link quite useful. Basically it allows you to select from 19 pre-made buttons, change the font type, color and style, and the text (of course). And you can even preview how [...]

FireTune 1.1.3- Mozilla Firefox 2.0 performance tuner/optimizer

Today TotalIdea announced the release of Firefox Tune 1.1.3 with support for the newly released Mozilla Firefox 2.0. Firetune is a freeware software that optimizes Firefox browser settings for faster performance according to specific computer speed and internet connection speed. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used [...]

HTTP Error 500 Internal server for php pages and solution

You get “500 - Internal server error” error message when a user tries to access your Apache or Lighttpd based dynamic php application (such as forum or blog software).
Generally, to solve this problem you need to take help of log files located at following location:
=> /var/log/message
=> /var/log/httpd/error_logs (/var/log/lighttpd/error_log or /var/log/httpd/error_log)
So you may be wondering why [...]

Introducing Linux Custom Search Engine using Google

Google has launched a Custom Search Engine. This allows users to create their own specialized Google Search Indexes made up of specific sites. I have added total 21 sites which I believe provides good Linux and open source tutorials and articles.
From google FT article:
Users of Google Custom Search Engine will be able to select the [...]

SnapGalaxy - An Online Digital Photo Printing & Sharing Service

On many occasions, you might have felt - “I wish my family and friends can view the photos of this event” - No worries! SnapGalaxy ships
Rs.4.80/- high quality digital prints to any address in India/USA for as low as Rs.30 shipping. Residents of India & USA will now be able to ship the prints abroad [...]

Essential tools for monitoring and administrating MySQL Server

The MySQL distribution provides several tools for database developers and administrators, but they don’t always work everywhere. Fortunately, the worldwide MySQL community has produced plenty of useful tools. Baron Schwartz surveys the possibilities and offers suggestions for what you should use.
At some point I have used most of these tools:
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Essential tools for [...]

Bandwidth Vista - Bandwidth Meter for Windows XP and Windows Vista

Bandwidth Vista is a free bandwidth meter, informative and intuitive to use. Bandwidth Vista allows you to monitor the network speed and bandwidth performance of your network connections.
Bandwidth Vista can meters adsl connections, wireless and ethernet connections. A network interface need to be select when you first start Bandwidth Vista. This dynamic bandwidth meter also [...]