Author: Surendra Anne

Ubuntu 9.10 Released With New Features

Posted by | Oct 29, 2009 | |

As October is going to end, new OS version of well know UBUNTU is released from Canonical. And the code name of this OS is Karmic Koala. From this release UBUNTU entered in to notebook OS too. So there are three variants of UBUNTU now, which are as follows. 1.UBUNTU(Kubuntu,edubuntu etc) 2.Net-book Remix 3.Ubuntu server edition Here are the improvements to note in this new release 1. A faster graphical booting(No more text booting if you wish, like RHEL5 provided some 2 years back. 2. ubuntu one client included for online storage of your personal files. 3. Empathy instant messenger for pidgin. 4. So many packages/software’s are upgraded to newer versions such as GNOME, FireFox and kernel. 5. New software upgrading/installation tool. 6.Audio/sound management improved a a lot between different applications So how to get this new UBUNTU? Here are the ways to get your new UBUNTU Way1 : Try to download ISO image from Ubuntu site, then create your own UBUNTU CD and then install it. Way2 : Try to download ISO image from torrent sites such as http://www.isohunt.com or http://www.mininova.com, or click here / official ubuntu torrent file to download torrent file. Way3 : Request a free CD from Ubuntu. Way4 : Just upgrade your UBUNTU from lower version, for that you have to just type the below command in graphic mode to get upgrade window. $sudo...

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Which Reverse Proxy Is Good?

Posted by | Oct 22, 2009 | |

Recently I was assigned to work on reverse proxies So I did some brain storming of some know proxies such as Apache and Squid then Googled to find which are other good reverse proxies are available. There are so many open source reverse proxies in market. Out of these most popular are1.Apache(this is having a lots of disadvantages)2.Squid3.Pound Which reverse proxy is good?There are so many good reverse proxies some of them ar as below. Please comment on this with your favorite Reverse proxy servers. Let us have a look on some proxies.1.Lighttpd (pronounced “lighty” or “Light-TPD”) is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. Its low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), light CPU load and speed goals make lighttpd suitable for servers that are suffering load problems, or for serving static media separately from dynamic content. Run by many companies where requests are high. Lighttpd is used by some of the biggest websites, including sites such as meebo. Wikimedia runs Lighttpd servers as does SourceForge. Three of the most famous torrent listing websites, the Pirate Bay, Mininova and ISOHunt, which have more than 1,000 hit’s per second, also use Lighttpd. Some Features:1. Load-balancing FastCGI, SCGI and HTTP proxy support2. Chroot support3. Select()-/poll()-/epoll() based web server4. Support for more efficient event notification schemes like kqueue and epoll5....

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Get BIOS, Firmware, Hardware And Drivers Details in Linux/Unix

Posted by | Sep 21, 2009 | |

How to get the BIOS (Basic Input Output System) information and other information in Linux/Unix such as 1.Hardware 2.CPU information 3.Drivers installed in Linux machine. For every operation/work in Linux there will be one command, this is true most of the time (all you need is to find that command). How to get BIOS info without rebooting the system? The command for this is dmidecode(DMI table decoder). Some times BIOS is called as DMI too. Just execute the command, It will just dump a lots and a lots of information about the system hardware. dmidecode not only give BIOS info it will give all the hardware detail present in the machine. Syntax for dmidecode command dmidecode options Learn dmidecode with examples Example 1: Display all the hardware, firmware, BIOS info #dmidecode clipped output: # dmidecode 2.11 SMBIOS 2.7 present. 32 structures occupying 1539 bytes. Table at 0x000E6760. Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: Hewlett-Packard Version: F.22 Release Date: 07/27/2011 ROM Size: 2560 kB Characteristics: PCI is supported BIOS is upgradeable BIOS shadowing is allowed Boot from CD is supported Selectable boot is supported EDD is supported Japanese floppy for NEC 9800 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h) Japanese floppy for Toshiba 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h) 5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 3.5"/720 kB...

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My name is Surendra Kumar Anne. I hail from Vijayawada which is cultural capital of south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. I am a Linux evangelist who believes in Hard work, A down to earth person, Likes to share knowledge with others, Loves dogs, Likes photography. At present I work at Bank of America as Sr. Analyst Systems and Administration. You can contact me at surendra (@) linuxnix dot com.