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  Configure a PHP web server on CentOS

Are you used to use cPanel or Plesk on VPS for your PHP website management? If for some reason you don't want to use them? What can you do? How do you maintain your website? How do you access Emails, use FTP to upload files or use phpMyAdmin to manage your databases? You may need to configure all these services yourself on a VPS without cPanel or Plesk or other similar apps.But to configure all these services on a Linux server is not an easy job. You may spend many nights but still fail to get satisfactory results. Here I share with you some useful links which can help you to configure a worki...

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  Microsoft releases Windows 8 RTM

Microsoft's Windows 8 RTM version now is available for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. This RTM version will be the same as the final Windows 8 release version. Windows 8 may be released on 26th October.Microsoft Software Assurance users will be able to get RTM version of the new system on 16th August. Volume License customers without Software Assurance will be able to purchase Windows 8 through Microsoft Volume License Resellers starting from 1st September.. Although this version is available for developers and IT professionals, ordinary consumers have to wait until 26th October.Mic...

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  Microsoft is the 17th largest contributor to Linux

The Linux Foundation has released 2012 Linux White Paper which analyzes developers and contributors of the Linux kernel from 2.6.36 to 3.2.The top ten contributors are: Red Hat, Intel, Novell, IBM, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Nokia, Samsung, Oracle, and Google. The software giant Microsoft's contribution ranked at 17, while the company's CEO Steve Ballmer has claimed previously that Linux is a cancer. Microsoft engineers have contributed 688 patches, which are mostly related to Hyper-V virtual machine technology. The top 10 developers from Microsoft are: Thomas Gleixner, Joe Perches, Chr...

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  Install flash plugin in Ubuntu

Step 1 : Get the libflashplayer.so file from Adobe offical websiteStep 2 : Extract the libflashplayer.so file to a folder Step 3 : Go tp the folder which sores the libflashplayer.so fileStep 4 : Run the following command in terminal             sudo ln -s libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives/libflashplayer.soStep 5 : Start the Firefox and now can watch flash...

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  Linux Kernel is replacing HTTP link with HTTPS

Linux kernel is in the process of replacing the HTTP links in its source code with HTTPS links. HTTPS is considered more secure than HTTP and can prevent lots of attacks like Man-In-The-Middle attack. Currently there are more than 150 patches submitted by Linux Kernel developers to replace these HTTP links. One thing to be noted is this replacement process is not a manual search and replace process. Indeed, some scripts are created to find out these links and try to find whether there is corresponding HTTPS link available and then do the replacement only if the HTTPS link works....

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  Microsoft: Apple UI sucks, Metro UI is philosophy

Microsoft is a typical IT company of the last century - a huge strength, but turned a little less sensitive. Now, Microsoft is trying to change the tradition of no connection between home desktop and mobile system developers, the best indicator of this effort is their design.Microsoft products, especially software products, are now gradually using a simple, plain and neat appearance: Metro. But if you think the Metro is just on Windows 8, Windows Phone, the application market and Xbox Live, then in fact you should also see more things. Microsoft's designers explained in a recent discussion tha...

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  Send email from Ubuntu command line

First install exim4 and exim4-config using the package manager then install mailxsudo apt-get install mailutilsand follow the promptsonce this is set up use the command “mail” to check your mail.if you would like to send mail type “mail” followed by the email address to mail it to egmail me@examplecomenter the subject and pressenter the body and keep pressing enter as many times as you need to, when your body is finished, press “Ctrl” and “D" together this will prompt you for a cc etc and finally the mail will be sent.If you want to setup mail client, ...

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  Something you may not know about Shell

Shell is also called command line interface, it is the interface between *nix users and computer. Shell is a program which provides service to access OS kernel services.This article is to introduce some not so well known but useful and interesting knowledge about shell.Wikishell was born almost at the same time as Unix. The first UNIX shell was written by Ken Thompson in 1971 and its name is Thompson sh. It's older than Linux kernel.The default Shell in most *nix and MacOS is bash, bash was created by Brian Fox in 1987, the full name is Bourne Again shell(bash).There are other shells except ba...

5,067 0       LINUX COMMAND SHELL UNIX