Linux is not “laptop ready” PROBLEM WITH LINUX ON A LAPTOP : NO WiFi! wifi does not work on my laptop Most laptops come with Realtek Wifi – They don’t work in Linux! The depressing Linux advice is: ONLY get a laptop with an Intel board for WiFi or be restricted to a cable connection. Intel is the only one that shares...
Networking
Networking: Linux, Apache, htaccess, … , Home and Commercial
Unix-Linux vs. Windows networking, communications, the internet
Networking support in Linux-Unix is superior to most other operating systems. Linux is without doubt the most secure kernel out there, making Linux based operating systems secure and suitable for servers. Note: Linux is Unix with added support for pc hardware. Of the top twenty-five websites in the world by Alexa’s count, only two aren’t running Linux. Those two, live.com and bing.com, both belong...
how to copy files on a Linux server to windows
how to copy files from linux to windows copy file from linux to windows using ssh copy file from remote server to local machine windows If your local OS is Windows, then you should use pscp.exe utility. -stackoverflow.com go to www.puttyssh.org/latest.html and download the 64 bit pscp.exe it should end up in your Downloads directory as usual. if you are going to copy...
Testing as a Service (TaaS)
For IT organizations that develop and maintain proprietary software applications, software testing is a crucial component of ensuring that releases are functional and meet the quality and performance demands of customers. For organizations that focus on DevOps or Agile development methodologies, testing is a frequent activity that takes place throughout the development process. In addition to application testing, IT organizations may also test and...
Introduction to DNS
Domain Name (website name) A domain name is the human-friendly name that we are used to associating with an internet resource (website). For instance, “google.com” is a domain name. The URL “google.com” is associated with the servers owned by Google Inc. The domain name system allows us to reach the Google (website) servers when we type “google.com” into our browsers. IP Address An...
mysql: how to update replace all, case insensitive, text substrings
in this select statement, SELECT pageid, title, SUBSTRING(contents, POSITION("one two three" IN contents) -0, 13) AS pageContents FROM pagetable WHERE contents LIKE '%one two three%' ; ‘%one two three%’ is case insensitive however, the Position function used to display just that part of “contents” (as pageContents) IS case sensitive and will return the front of the string, not the section you want, if the...
how to switch from default FTP port in linux
updated 2016-07-26 how to change the FTP port (21) in Linux The default port for FTP is # 21. Don’t use FTP. (use SFTP) FTP sends usernames and passwords in the clear, which isn’t secure. Instead, look at SFTP which uses the SSH protocol or vsFTPd (Very Secure FTP Deamon) or FTPS or SCP (Secure CoPy). Anonymous FTP Anonymous FTP service: when...
How to easily Set Up your Fedora-Linux Home Network
updated 2019-11-20 How To copy and share files between Fedora computers and share a printer How to set up a home network on Fedora (or Ubuntu) with a router. (At the begining of this article, I was still using Fedora 11, 13, and 14 on different pc’s and had live copies of Ubuntu 8.4, 9.4, 9.10, and 10.10 that I had looked at). Since...
How To automate Linux backups to a remote pc
updated 2018-05-03 passwordless ssh: automated Linux shell backups to another computer ssh remote login without a password Accessing a remote site through ssh without a password How to do unattended backups to a remote linux computer Quite often, you want a shell script to ssh into a remote server (your web site?) unattended and do a (regularly scheduled, cron job?) backup, for instance. SSH...
Internet, Web Site, Security with .htaccess
The surest control over security is with /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf when you have the entire server, or in .htaccess files otherwise – if you are on shared hosting. Read the post “Unix-Apache .htaccess” for basic information first, if you are not familiar with this. It will be best if you have your site duplicated on your home pc, where you can test out any changes to...
Unix-Apache .htaccess
hacking, error pages, redirection, time zone, add-on & sub domains & SEO, hot linking – bandwidth stealing. .htaccess files (or “distributed configuration files”) allow you to do many different things, … commonly, to have your own custom 404 error pages, to redirect pages, and to enhance security. (for security, see Internet Security Note 1: Unix used .filename extensions before Microsloth Windoze or even DOS...
how to boot up Fedora (any linux) without password prompting
updated 2021-10-19 If you always turn on your personal computer and “boot up” in Fedora 11-34 with the same user-id and don’t want the computer stopping at your user-id and password prompt every time, then, open a terminal session and edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf as root. You can insert 2 lines under the heading AutomaticLoginEnable=True AutomaticLogin= Users -> Automatic login -> on Debian and...
how to make one of your Fedora pc’s visible on the Internet
How Do I Make my Fedora pc behind my router Visible to the Internet? How to Connect your LAN web server to the Internet If you install the Apache software package on your pc, you can make your pc function like an Internet web site server, create an html page and see it out on the internet – from anywhere. If you have more...
How to Find Linux CPU Usage
To find what is soaking up your cpu How do I Find Unix-Linux CPU Utilization System Monitor on your desktop, you can find all that and more at Applications -> System Tools -> System Monitor. There, you will find each processor, RAM, your operating system, its version, kernel, hard disk space, cpu load averages over the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes, processes running,...
how to get linux to recognize your modem or router, internet connection
2009 – 2010 – 2011 How to get Fedora to recognize your internet connection. I installed Fedora and it will not recognize my cat5 (cat5e) ethernet, internet, connection. I installed linux on my pc (Fedora 11, then a year or 2 later, 13, and now fedora 14) and, each time, everything was fine except that Fedora would not communicate with the internet, even-though the...