How To Setup Disk Quotas For MySQL Database

MySQL server has no support for preventing disk from getting filled up. You need to depend upon external configurations. Let us see how to use standard Linux disk quota to limit user database size.
Suppose you have a user foo on the system as well as on MySQL. Now how do you limit space for [...]

Get Information About Your BIOS / Server Hardware From a Shell Without Opening Chassis ( BIOS Decoder )

biosdecode is a command line utility to parses the BIOS memory and prints information about all structures (or entry points) it knows of. You can find out more information about your hardware.
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Three Ways To Access Linux Partitions from Windows

If you have a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, you probably know this
problem: you can access files from your Windows installation while you
are in Linux, but not the other way round. This tutorial shows three
ways how you can access your Linux partitions (with ext2 or ext3
filesystem) from within Windows: Explore2fs, DiskInternals Linux Reader, and the Ext2 Installable [...]

How to run KDE applications on Windows

Want to run some open source Linux applications designed for the KDE desktop environment, without you know, installing Linux? The KDE Windows Project makes it possible to run some KDE programs in a Windows environment.
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How to boot with grub off a floppy and into your hard drive

Having a problem with grub on your Linux box can really ruin your computing experience. That’s why it’s always handy to make a bootable grub floppy and stick it in a drawer somewhere, just in case.
Here’s how you do it in Ubuntu, although these instructions will be pretty much the same in any [...]

Customize your Windows boot screen with BootSkin

There are plenty of programs out there that let you skin Windows to make it look like Linux, OS X, another version of Windows, or something else altogether. But if you’re just tired of looking at your Windows 2000 or XP bootup screen while waiting for your computer to start, all you need is BootSkin. [...]

Shell tip: Clear the command history and screen when you log out

For security reason you may want to clear the history file and the screen when you hit CTRL+D or type logout command as you dont want to left content on screen (i..e avoid an information leak). Some Linux distro may clear the screen but others do not clear the screen when you logout.
When a login [...]

How to: Install KDE 4 Desktop under Ubuntu Linux 7.10

KDE 4 has been released. I’ve received couple of questions about installing KDE 4 under Ubuntu Linux 7.10. KDE 4 Packages are available for Ubuntu Linux version 7.10 (Gutsy) and from development Ubuntu Linux Hardy version. They install to /usr/lib/kde4 and can be installed alongside your existing KDE 3. However these packages are not compatible [...]

tcptraceroute, A way to make traceroutes with firewalls in the middle of the path

Traceroute works sending ICMP packets to all the routers in the way to the destination host, but these days more and more routers and server have the ICMP packets filtered, so here is where tcptraceroute comes to save the day.

As you may guess from its name tcptraceroute is like traceroute but sends tcp packets instead [...]

How to open winrar files with Linux

To open RAR (those created with winrar) you will need unrar. There are lots of sites now providing files packaged under the rar format.So you will need first to install unrar on your systems and therefore be able to list content and unpack the files into your hard disk to be able to work [...]

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