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How to save downloaded packages from yum?
You can follow given steps to save downloaded packages from yum as per your wish.
You Cannot Connect to the Internet After You Connect to a VPN Server
This issue may occur if you configure the VPN connection to use the default gateway on the remote network. This setting overrides the default gateway settings that you specify in your Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) settings.
Tips to Search Better in GOOGLE – Part 2
Google is an atlas. Type in an area code, like 212, to see a Mapquest map of the area. Google is Wal-Mart’s computer. Type in a UPC bar code number, such as “036000250015, ” to see the description of the product you’ve just “scanned in.” (Thanks to the Google Blog, http://google. blogspace. com , for [...]
Tips to Search Better in GOOGLE – Part 1
T his is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. If you put quotes around “electric curtains,” Google won’t waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word “electric” and another set containing the word “curtains.” Similarly, put a hyphen right before any word [...]
How to Speed up Samba network access
Dropt these lines into your smb.conf file to speed up Samba access. Find the Global area section and paste them underneath: read size = 65536 read prediction = true socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 Depending on your network card and configuration, this should speed up your LAN transfers at least tenfold.
How to Spy on your users through SSH
You just connected through SSH and are wondering what your users are doing. Do a cat /dev/vcs1 and this will show you what happens on the first console. If someone is typing, you’ll be able to get an output of his keystrokes. Substitute cat /dev/vcs1 withcat /dev/vcs2 or cat /dev/vcs3 and so on for other consoles.
How to Ping all the hosts in hosts file in Linux
Did you know you can ping all the hosts listed in the /etc/hosts file with one command? Do it with for i in `grep -v “^#†/etc/hosts | awk ‘{print $1}’`; do ping -c 1 -w 2 $i ; echo; done
How to Open and Extract .DAA Image Files
DAA stands for Direct Access Archive is PowerISO proprietary and private disk image format which supports compression, password protection, and split into multiple volumes. Which mean .DAA files are exact replicate of a disk, normally CD or DVD, and can be a software program, game, music CD, movie collections, bootable CD and any other CD [...]
How to check email headers in GMail
In order to check email headers in GMail one need to perform below mentioned steps: 1. Log into your GMail Account. 2. Open the Email for which one need to view the headers. 3. One can see a little arrow pointing down next to Reply. Click on this down arrow next to Reply. 4. A [...]
How to to access a website and hide your identity or use a different IP Address
Generally, if you want to access a website and yet you want to hide your identity or use a different IP Address, the easiest way is to use an anonymous free proxy service which allows you anonymity in surfing the web. There are plenty of free proxies available on the net that enable you to [...]
How to retrieve Yahoo Mail using email programs such as Microsoft Outlook
If you are using Yahoo mail and plan to retrieve your messages using email programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Outlook Express, etc, you might be a bit disappointed. Yahoo only allows customers of its Yahoo Mail Plus service to download their email via POP3. Having said that, you can still use your favorite email [...]