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Keep Your Firefox Plugins Up to Date

A fast and easy Mozilla site makes it a snap to make sure your browser’s Plugins (not extensions) are current. More: continued here

How to Restore Old Versions of Files in Windows Vista

Windows Vista (Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions), has a new feature called Restore Previous Versions.  Every time a system restore point is created, new versions of your files are created at the same time. To restore from previous versions of a file:  browse through your documents folder and right mouse click on the file name, [...]

How to View MySQL Database’s Table Structure

The describe command gives you a list of all the data fields used in your database table. In the example, you can see that the table named test in the salesdata database keeps track of four fields: name, description, num, and date_modified. mysql> describe test; +—————+————–+——+—–+————+—————-+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | [...]

How many way to share the files in windows

7 Ways to Share Information in Windows Environment Got a document, graphic, spreadsheet, program, or just a thought you want to share with your co-workers? The method you choose to share it depends on the content you’re sharing, your personal work style, the tools you have, and if you’re at home, in your office, or [...]

Essential Linux Server Administrator Commands

Command Summary Use arp Command mostly used for checking existing Ethernet connectivity and IP address Most common use: arp This command should be used in conjunction with the ifconfig and route commands. It is mostly useful for me to check a network card and get the IP address quick. Obviously there are many more parameters, [...]

How to View Your MySQL Database’s Table Structure

The describe command gives you a list of all the data fields used in your database table. In the example, you can see that the table named test in the salesdata database keeps track of four fields: name, description, num, and date_modified.

How SSL Works

The SSL protocol includes two sub-protocols: the SSL record protocol and the SSL handshake protocol. The SSL record protocol defines the format used to transmit data. The SSL handshake protocol involves using the SSL record protocol to exchange a series of messages between an SSL-enabled server and an SSL-enabled client when they first establish an [...]

How to Use command – ‘make’ – for backups

Usualy make from sys-devel/make is known as a tool for compiling applications. But it could also be used to provide often used commands so that they can be accessed easily.

How to Get MySQL date in RFC-822 format for RSS feeds

To get the PubDate element of an RSS feed to validate, it needs to be in RFC-822 format. MySQL has flexible ways of working with dates and times which make this a simple task.

How to edit and configure the .htaccess file

How do you edit the .htaccess file? Before you upload an .htaccess file to your server, make sure there is not already one there. Your host panel or perhaps a script you have uploaded may have already changed the htaccess for some reason so you don’t want to overwrite it as doing so could change [...]

How to Install and Configure Subversion

Setting up a repository: svnadmin create /usr/local/svn/newrepos Import files into repository: svn import /import/dir file:///usr/local/svn/newrepos/projectname -m “comment” List files in a repository tree: svn list file:///usr/local/svn/newrepos/projectname svn ls #while in sandbox svn ls -v # verbose Checkout a directory: svn checkout “http://host:port/path” svn co http://host:port/path svn checkout file:///path/to/repos svn checkout file:///localhost/path/to/repos svn checkout svn+ssh://host/path/to/repos Check [...]

50 quick linux command tips part 3

1. How to know which ports are listening from your IP address? # nmap -sT -O your-ip-address 2. How to grep an exact match? # grep -w textfile.txt 3. How to reverse grep matches? # grep -v textfile.txt # 4. How to know which service name is what port? Assuming port 443 # cat testfile.txt [...]

How to schedule and run script on specified time and date – Crontab

Linux systems are capable of running scheduled jobs. Server administrative task are done on regular basis even while sysads are away or during sleeping hours. This keeps a fully working production server do unattended jobs on periodical basis. cron is a linux utility that schedules and automates jobs. This blog entry covers how to do [...]

How to do ssh log parsing and monitoring

Server SSH log files provides us information from simple system to critical system security message. Here are quick ways of doing it via CLI terminal. These examples could serve also as starting point to parse more search key strings not only from any ssh log files, but also to other daemon service log file such [...]