There’s a lot of text editor software choice available. A cool open source software for editing text is Notepad++. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. What I and others “missing” is the word [...]

Reducing the time required to run full backups is a challenge to Linux administrators. There are commercial backup software, which does full backup and incremental backup. A faster data backup solution at a fraction of time needed compared to traditional full backup method is much desirable. Both commercial backup software and open source backup software [...]

Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich the latest version of Android operating system is making way to major tablet computer and smartphone. Many Samsung mobile device users have been anticipating an upgrade for Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab which belong to 2010′s top devices. Anyone with those devices are clamoring for an upgrade to Android 4.0. Users [...]

Internet emails are a fast way of communication. I receive lots of emails everyday and some of which have some office documents attached. I am not fond of the POP3 email client program such as MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, and many others. I stick with the old web based email interface using the Firefox internet [...]

Computer security is a basic feature that is often over look by usual users. Operating systems whether Linux, Microsoft Windows, or Apple OS have made security an important feature. But, it is a common mistake people have to leave a desktop computer without any password. While this is not true for computer servers as system [...]

There are different computer servers in our working place. We have a mail server, proxy server, database server, web server, ERP application server, and many more. Monitoring each server is a very important aspect of the daily operation. Experiencing a downtime in a server will have the helpdesk hotline flooded with calls. Thus, server uptime [...]

The security threat on smart phone increases by the days as more applications are made available. The multitasking mobile device operating system is of those major considerations by users. Having a multitasking system will allow more applications for smart phones. Many have frowned before on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, for the lack of multitasking [...]

Computer security is such a hot issue. The attacks that successfully penetrated many enterprises have made people think twice about Windows operating system. Search engine giant Google was one of those targeted with vulnerable version of Microsoft Internet Explorer for this reason they are pushing other OS like Mac or Linux. Nobody can really say [...]

Having a test server environment is important for developers and support staff. We usually replicate production servers running RedHat Linux using rsync for creating test server environment. Avoiding conflicts when the test server are put live requires some basic changes. A primary thing to change is the hostname of the RedHat Linux test server. There [...]

Linux operating system has evolved through the years from a mostly command line interface (CLI) to newer graphic user interface (GUI). Most computer geek prefer to use CLI over GUI. They might have a good reason as there are more things that could be done or better run on system command line. In Linux, a [...]