Package managerment in fedora linux
One of attractions of fedora is its package management. It uses rpm and yum. rpm install rpm -i evolution erase rpm -e evolution query rpm -qa –queryformat “%-30{NAME} %10{SIZE} %{INSTALLTIME:date}\n” […]
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First look of Fedora 14
The official release was out. I can’t resist the itchiness of Fedora 14. Thus, I migrated to Fedora 14 via preupgrade. The process is smooth. after installation, I tested a […]
Fedora 14 Countdown
It’s a exciting time to come, Fedora 14 is there Fedora 14 is codenamed Laughlin. The complete list of major Fedora 14 features and their status can be found on […]
UUID Universally Unique Identifier
A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is an identifier standard used in software construction, standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) as part of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). Modern Linux […]
Convert DOS file to UNIX format
Test file from dos/windoz is annoyingwhen working at linux. The newline character must be converted. Here are a collection of fixes: Use of vi at linux open a text file […]
Unable to empty evolution trash folder
Evolution is my mailer. I found I can’t expunge trash folder, it showed Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync At the end, I found a fix, Backup your […]
password protected folder for a tiny web server
I have a tiny web server “lighttpd” at a NAS (Network Attached Storage). It gets more popular than the conventional appache in last years (in particular for light web server […]
Suspend an outlook account
Although sitting at the front of a computer is a component of my daily tasks, I always remind myself I am a layman when enter windoz territory. There is a […]
Email Syndrome
I call this email syndrome, because I feel it and it occurs to me from time to time. In nowadays, email, internet are part of our life, at least for […]
crontab tips
Crontab is client using the cron daemon that executes scheduled commands. Cron is started automatically from /etc/init.d on entering multi-user runlevels. Cron searches its spool area (/var/spool/cron/crontabs) for crontab files […]
