I was looking to install Git on a Linux server running RHEL 5.*. And using the EPEL repos helped me to locate the required Git rpm along with its dependencies. I followed the following […]
Shell Script to Detect If the IP Address Is Googlebot
1. Introduction Google has explained here on how to verify if the given IP belongs to Googlebot. So instead of hard-coding all the IPs which might change eventually, Google has suggested doing […]
Accessing Linux Files from Windows Simplified- Ext2 installable File System
People using dual boot with Windows and Linux and have data spread across different partitions on Linux and Windows will have/are faced/facing the problem of inablity to access files on Linux partitions […]
Open Source at Microsoft
For people who are parallely interested in Open source but cannot do away with Microsoft, here’s a great resource- CodePlex: What is CodePlex? CodePlex is Microsoft’s open source project hosting web site. […]
Tomboy-Panel for quick access of notes
Tomboy The Ubuntu desktop comes preloaded with a fantastic note-taking application called Tomboy. While the application can be easily accessed from the desktop Applications menu (under the Accessories sub-menu), it can me […]
addrepo – Easiest way to add APT repositories
addrepo is a simple command line interface for easily adding APT repositories to your sources.list Install addrepo in Ubuntu This is very simple process just use the following two commands sudo wget […]