Just another small answer to a possible annoying issue if you don’t know what to do. In some circumstances you might change you Gnome panel configuration file or an update might change it or the file can get corrupt or maybe from different other reasons you might want to re-set your Gnome panel. How can [...]
Most of my short articles are just answers to questions that come from different sources. To be able to help those who ask on long term I am trying to add them as they come along. They are at different levels and are more like tips and tricks. So, if you want to install a [...]
Sometimes even the smallest task can be an issue if you are at the beginning of your Sysadmin career. More than that, in most of the cases if you ask the community you’ll not necessarily get an answer to be fully covered by your level of knowledge at that point in time. In the end, [...]
Question asked, answer provided Let’s assume that we want to redirect everyone except us to a holding page – called by us maintenance.html – during our maintenance work. This is one of the most common scenarios out there. If you use Apache as your web server you could use something like the code below. This [...]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. That is the subject of this article. And probably because of the reasons mentioned below this will be quite a short article. It works. As simple as that. I’ve left just the counter in this article for a while because I wanted to have a good look at it, I wanted [...]
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, another stone in the Ubuntu foundation. We just want to show our support and appreciation for the good work that is being done under the signs of Ubuntu. Keep up the good job. Bravo Ubuntu Team!
After one week of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope on my laptop this distro has left me with one impression which is: excellent! It is just great in comparison with absolutely everything that’s on the market and most of all with the leader, Microsoft Windows. Honestly I am a server fan because of my background and [...]
Inside each system administrator’s utilities category are some scripts that are a must. One of those scripts is the disk usage monitor. Users will try to grab every possible piece of the disk but you, as system administrator, must keep everything under control. If you agree and you want a script that sends you the [...]
Canonical and the community is doing their best to keep their word when is about one release every six months. The current stable release is Ubuntu 8.10 and the version that reaches his end of life is Ubuntu 7.10 but the most important thing is that the new version can already be downloaded (at this [...]
Being asked how I would do fast a simple server ping script in PHP, I’ve asked “Like this!” and for this “this” you must take a look below. If you want a more detailed one and with much more options than this you should check the man ping page to see the whole list of [...]