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How-To: “rm” command to empty a directory with huge file list

June 6, 2013

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Though I’m a Linux user, even I find my self trapped in such occasion when executing commands. But, I never forget that Google is my friend. I make a note to my self of whatever I find as solution. Therefore, I thought this might help somene like me to make their life easy. : D [...]

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Windows upgrade from beginning till latest

June 4, 2013

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Though I’m don’t use windows much, I was always curious to know about Windows OS history. Like the windows history from the begging  (Windows 1.0) to the very latest (Windows 8). Below is an awesome video I’ve found while reading posts in Neowin; Indeed this is an amazing piece of video for the Windows fans.. [...]

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IPFire the Successor to IPCop

May 30, 2013

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Being a fan of IPCop when I was trying to download it and just for my curiosity typed IPCop vs in Google search and found something interesting, an another firewall distro called IPFire. After doing some reading I found that it’s the completed version of current IPCop which includes all the features that are inbuilt into [...]

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Private, Public and Illegal IP Addresses

March 31, 2013

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What is a Public IP address Public IP Addresses (also known as Static IP Addresses) are IP addresses that are visible to the public.Because these ip addresses are public, they allow other people to know about and access your computer, like a Web server.In some cases, you do not want people to access your computer [...]

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Archive All Incoming & Outgoing Mails in Zimbra / Postfix

March 4, 2013

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My friend using Zimbra at his office asked me that if there’s any possibilities to keep all incoming and outgoing mails of all users in separate location where his boss can see the mails while users are unaware of it After few Google searches I found the solution. It basically auto bcc all inbound and [...]

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Prolink PHS300 Dongle on Ubuntu

February 22, 2013

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First of all, I must admit that I’m not a geek. I started to use FOSS in 2009 just because I didn’t wanted to use pirated softwares since that would be breaching the second precept of Buddhist Five Precepts. However, recently I bought a mobile internet connection with a dongle from Etisalat. Before buying the [...]

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Rsync Script With File Versioning by Date

February 19, 2013

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This script I’m using on my file server when mirroring the data from primary hard drive to backup and external hard drive. Which basically checks for the files which have been modified or deleted on primary by comparing backed up data on the backup drive and then move the unmodified and undeleted files from backup [...]

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Split DNS – Explained

December 30, 2012

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In one of my previous post about setting up Zimbra mail server application, I’ve mentioned about configuring a Split DNS (local DNS) server using bind9 on server itself. In this article I’ll explain why is it important to a mail server and how it works. Before we go into detail, you should have a good [...]

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Get Google for Windows 8

October 30, 2012

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As I always say; “Google will never let you down at any time.” Once again, they proved it by releasing google search applet & chrome support for Windows 8. Windows 8, is the latest build released by Microsoft this month (October 2012). Microsoft has built the operating system using a Hybrid kernel this time. Simply, [...]

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Zimbra 8.0 Outgoing SMTP Authentication

October 19, 2012

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Recently I’ve installed zimbra 8.0 on one of my client’s server, but I couldn’t use existing wiki instructions to relay outbound mails through no-ip. After few searches, found the solution in zimbra forums. In brief we have to use zmlocalconfig instead of postconf. Follow the instructions below to enable outgoing smtp authentication in zimbra 8.0 [...]

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