How to turn off Action Center notifications in Windows 7

Monday, October 4th, 2010 70 views

Windows 7 Action Center is a special window located under the Control Panel, where the system gives the user a lot of useful information regarding security, problems, troubleshootings, maintenance etc. When a message gets a  “Normal Priority” status, it is  queued in the Action Center itself. But when a message gets a ” Important Priority” [...]

How to Setup Transparent Squid Proxy Server in Ubuntu

Saturday, August 28th, 2010 222 views

Squid is a fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy which is almost (but not quite – we’re getting there!) HTTP/1.1 compliant. Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications. This is a short guide on how to set up a transparent squid proxy server. Squid is a caching [...]

How to run crontab jobs on linux system ?

Friday, August 20th, 2010 164 views

The cron daemon is a long running process that executes commands at specific dates and times. To schedule one-time only tasks with cron, use at or batch. For commands that need to be executed repeatedly (e.g. hourly, daily or weekly), use crontab, which has the following options: crontab filename Install filename as your crontab file. [...]

How to Setup a DNS Server in Ubuntu

Friday, July 9th, 2010 217 views

Overview Would you like to setup a DNS Server in Ubuntu? How about setting up a private internal domain name at home? Well, you’ve come to the right place. There are number of tutorials on the internet showing you how to setup a DNS Server with Ubuntu using Bind 9. So, why another how-to document? [...]

How to automate tasks with cron jobs

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010 90 views

Cron is a Linux service that runs in the background. On a dedicated server, cron is extremely valuable because you can automate repetitive commands and tasks. For example, if you want a certain log to be purged every day, you can create a script to perform the task and then tell cron to run the [...]

How To Set Up Database Replication In MySQL (Slave)

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 172 views

On the slave we first have to create the database exampledb: mysql -u root -p Enter password: CREATE DATABASE exampledb; quit; If you have made an SQL dump of exampledb on the master and have transferred it to the slave, then it is time now to import the SQL dump into our newly created exampledb [...]

How To Set Up Database Replication In MySQL (Master)

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 192 views

This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL. MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated to the database on the slave server so that both databases [...]