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« Previous EntriesDoing a Sort in Unix or Linux
Sunday, August 5th, 2007I wanted to do a sort of files in IBM AIX today and I came across this useful command.
ls -al | sort +4n
This command performs a numeric sort on the fifth column of the “ls -al” output. This results in a file listing where the files are listed in ascending order, from smallest in [...]
lsof is a Super Linux Command
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that’s just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application. The tool is aptly called lsof because it “lists open files”. And remember, in Unix just about everything (including a network socket) is a file.
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Free Dinoparc Game from Motion-Twin : STICKY
Saturday, July 1st, 2006Get your own Dinoz and show the world who’s the strongest!
Dinoparc from Motion-Twin is a quality online fun game where players bring their creatures to fight in a vast world they can explore. Motion-Twin is one of the best-known creators of online games in France. Winner of the 2006 Flash Festival award in Games Category [...]
Linux Journal Online Edition
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006Its my first time reading the Linux Journal dated May 2006. The Linux Journal is full of cool Linux news and whats interesting is that they also have an online digital edition you can scour through. They are charging USD 25 for it but I’m not sure if its a one time payment or on [...]
1 Day to go for TheGadgetBlog 1st Giveaway: STICKY POST
Sunday, May 28th, 2006Only 1 more days to go before the contest ends…See how you can win an iPod here….
Cheers
Colbert Low
How to review a Linux distribution
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006Want to learn how to write a good review on Linux distros ? Read on…
New versions of Linux distributions crop up almost every week. On the one hand, it’s great that development is so active, but on the other it can be difficult to wade through the options and find the one that suits you [...]
Web-based server-side aggregator called Gregarius
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006Using Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or Atom feeds to check your favorite sites and blogs can be a big time-saver. However, if you use more than one computer or operating system, managing your feeds and tracking updates is more difficult. Gregarius, a Web-based server-side aggregator that supports RSS, RDF, and Atom feeds, can help.
Web-based [...]
VMware opens Virtual Machine disk format
Monday, April 3rd, 2006VMware is taking another step to try to maintain its market dominance. VMware announced today that it is opening its virtual machine disk format specification to allow other vendors to use it in their products.
Technically, VMware is not releasing the disk format under an open source license — or, really, any license. According to Dan [...]
Tradeware trades Solaris for Red Hat
Friday, March 31st, 2006Tradeware Global is a financial services company that allows securities brokers to provide direct market access to their clients. It currently handles 5% of all transactions in the New York and American stock exchanges. Tradeware is about halfway through with an infrastructure migration that is moving the company’s 100+ servers off of Solaris and onto [...]
Dmidecode on Linux
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006Dmidecode reports information about your system’s hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard (see a sample output). This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer. [...]
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