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Tech Tip : Sending Email from Command line
Everyone is not as lucky as having a full fletched email client like thunderbird or kmail to send mails. There is one unlucky group known as system administrators who have to send the mails either through the command line or a script running on the remote server. Also, apart from sending the emails, sometimes one needs to test or debug the email server which can't be done by traditional email clients. If you are one of those system administrators and are scared, then you shouldn't be, because this is where netcat comes to rescue.
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Ksplice: Upgrade Your Linux Kernel Without Reboot
Upgrading the system is one of the very common tasks a Linux Administrator usually do. One can easily update the system with Yum or apt-get commands but the main problem which everyone faces is to reboot the system after a kernel upgrade. This comes out to be a big problem for small organizations, where one don't have High Availability setup and can't afford to reboot the system because of the upgrade.
Since reboots are disruptive, many system administrators delay the update of there patches and makes their system vulnerable to attacks. Below given is the frequency of reboots needed in the last year for respective flavors of linux.
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Browse Through Your System Information
If you would like to know information about your system then where you will go and look into ... proc filesystem and dmesg. Yes, you will get some information out of it, but that is not the full information. Then you go and search for the spec sheet given my manufacturer to find what you are looking for. But what if you are handling remote system ??
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Hack: Android on iPhone
This could be the one of the very big news for linux lovers that now you will be able to run Android on iPhone successfully. As everyone know that Apple developed one of the very best mobile operating system for iPhone but may be that wasn't working for few people who later on decided to make something which could install Android (Google's mobile operating system) on iPhone.
When the talks started, lots of people was very much sure that it's not possible to run android on iPhone, but David Wong, also known as planetbeing, proved it wrong and he finally achieved what many geeks have been dreaming from long.
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Configure Tata Photon Whiz On Ubuntu Linux
Tata indicom is offering unlimited surfing plus download at very affordable prices with their Tata Photon Whiz. Although it's at compromised speeds but still, it is unlimited.
Configuring this card at windows is pretty much easy, as it is always with all other softwares. Within few clicks, your card will be working and you will be ready to browse net within sometime. but as always, configuring it on Ubuntu linux is not so easy but at the same time not so difficult too if you follow right steps. Below I will be explaining them.
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