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3DMark06 1.2.0 – The most comprehensive hardware and sofware benchmarks available
3DMark06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests. 3DMark06 [...]
Build a Whole-home Audio System
Many of us here at Macworld are music lovers. We listen to a lot of music in a lot of places around the house. Which means many of us are also big fans of Sonos’… More: continued here
How to get basic information about UNIX system
Task: Get the date and time Display or set the system date and time, use: $ date Task: Find out more about my UNIX operating system Print all system information, use: $ uname -a Task: Find out who logged in lately Show listing of last 10 logged in users, use: $ last -10 Task: Find [...]
How to Run Remote Commands with SSH
The ssh program can  be used for monitoring remote hots. The system admin can also execute commands from his desktop which can be executed at remote servers. This is a cool facility of ssh. We can do much more on SSH. root@admin:~ # ssh root@www ‘df -h’ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ubda 3.5G 2.1G [...]
How to clear the cache from memory in Linux System
I am having 4 gb of ram in my production systems. and normally after 24 hours my nagios gives warning for insufficient memmory. when we check systems ,it always shows the memory in cache. So we normally reboot the system to clear the cache from the memory till we find the following command. Linux Command [...]
Fears of a Conficker Meltdown Greatly Exaggerated on April 1
Worries that the notorious Conficker worm will somehow rise up and devastate the Internet on April 1 are misplaced, security experts said Friday. Conficker is thought to have infected more than 10 million PCs worldwide, and researchers estimate that several million of these machines remain infected. If the criminals who created the network wanted to, [...]
How to view text files in Linux -Cat,less Commands
Many files on a Linux system are files that are human readable and can be viewed as text. For example, shell scripts are just simple text files, as well as many of the important configuration files that can be edited by hand. This is why Linux provides many ways of editing and viewing text files, [...]
How to Install Java Runtime Environment – Linux
You can download SUN’s latest Java JDKs at: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp. For my 64-bit Debian system I selected the 64-bit JDK multiplatform binary for Linux: jdk-6u10-linux-x64.bin. I downloaded the binary file to /tmp and installed it as follows as root: # mkdir -p /usr/java # cd /usr/java # # chmod 700 /tmp/jdk-6u10-linux-x64.bin # /tmp/jdk-6u10-linux-x64.bin … creating: jdk1.6.0_10/ [...]
How to Optimize Your Hard Drive and Registry with CCleaner
There are plenty of system optimizers and registry cleaners out there, but today I will tell you about a great free one called CCleaner. It is very simple to use and can drastically increase your computers performance. CCleaner can delete all unnecessary temporary files from most browsers including IE, Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera as [...]
Download Apple Safari 4: World’s Fastest Browser
Now you can download the latest Apple Safari 4 web browser. Launching its latest beta version, Apple calls it the world’s fastest web browser for Mac and Windows computers. Apple Safari 4 powered by the new Nitro JavaScript engine claims to execute JavaScript 30 times faster than IE 7 and 3 times faster than Firefox 3; it loads HTML web [...]
Unix time will equal 1234567890
Its 1234567890 Day today! On Friday, February 13 at exactly 3:31:30 PM (PST) Unix time will equal 1234567890. The world is celebrating the milestone with global 1234567890 parties today. So what is Unix time? Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January [...]
How to Monitor MySQL’s performance
Here are some ideas, how you can monitor the database performance of your MySQL installation. Monitoring is always an iterative and continuous process. You need to learn what patterns are OK for your database and what are the signs of slight problems or even dangerous situations. Below are the main items you can use to [...]