Your Laptop Could Detect The Next Earthquake

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Free Partition software for Windows

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

 

BlueRay disks to hold 128GB data

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Check your computer's internet security

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

 

List of files where hostname of solaris box is specified

/etc/hosts

/etc/nodename

/etc/hostname.*

/etc/net/ticlts/hosts

/etc/net/ticots/hosts

/etc/net/ticotsord/hosts

/etc/inet/ipnodes

To mount a windows share on HP-UX

1. login as root

2. check if cifsclient is running or not:

cifsclient status

3. If not up, start with:

cifsclient start

4. Create a mount point if not created already.

5. Use this command to mount the share:

cifsmount //servername/sharename ./mountpoint -U username

To permanently mount a windows ntfs share in linux

1. create a file named /root/.ntfs_share to look like this

username=xyz
password=Password1

2. change its permissions to 600

3. edit /etc/fstab and make an entry just like the following:

//servername/sharename /home/abc/mountpoint cifs auto,credentials=
/root/.ntfs_share,uid=500,gid=500,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0

4. mount with mount -a command.

List installed softwares in Ubuntu

You can view the installed softwares in Ubuntu by issuing

pravin@gladiator:~$ dpkg -l

at prompt. If you want to search for a specific software filter it out
by using grep

pravin@gladiator:~$ dpkg -l | grep picasa
picasa 2.7.3736-15

Image management application from Google

Useful AIX Commands

1. bootinfo -K - kernel 32/64 bit

2. bootinfo -y - hardware 32/64 bit

3. lscfg | grep proc - how many processors?

4. bootino -r - how much RAM?

5. lspv - list HDDs

6. lspv hdisk1 - list info about hdisk1

7. lscfg - Detailed config of system

8. uname -a - hotfix + OS version

9. uname -p - displays the chip type for ex., PowerPC

10. oslevel -r - know version, release, maintenance level

11. oslevel -s - get service pack info

12. instfix -ik IY24043 - determine whether IY24043 fix is installed on system

Configuring SAMBA on linux

1. Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf to specify your workgroup and server string.

2. At the bottom of smb.conf, specify the folder you wish to share.

3. To create smbpasswd from existing users in /etc/passwd

cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd

If smbpasswd is not already there, create it.

4. chmod 600 /etc/samba/smbpasswd

5. smbpasswd <username>

6. uncomment these lines from /etc/samba/smb.conf

encrypt password = yes

smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

7. Restart smb services by

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart