CentOS 6.5 Desktop Installation Guide with Screenshots
CentOS 6.5 released Following with the release of RHEL 6.5, CentOS 6.5 has arrived on 1st Dec and its time to play with it. For those who want to update their existing 6.4 systems to 6.5 simply use...
View ArticleHow to Stitch Photos Together on Linux
If you are an avid photographer, you will probably have several stunning panoramic photos in your portfolio. You don't have to be a professional photographer, nor need specialized equipment to create...
View ArticleHow to Develop Cross-Platform Mobile Apps on Linux
The last few years have witnessed dramatic growth of the mobile market, mostly driven by a large selection of applications. As consumers, we all hate to see some kind of market monopoly by any one...
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Android App Development: How to Create an Options Menu
So far in our Android UI building blocks tutorials we haven't really looked at menus, but of course they're an essential part of the user experience of our application. Read on to get started with the...
View ArticleHow to Configure Nagios for Audio Alerts and Mobile Notifications
In a Network Operation Centre (NOC) environment, setting up alerts is extremely important. As one of the most popular NOC monitoring systems, Nagios features powerful alerting services. Alerts...
View ArticleHow to Open a Large Text File on Linux
In the era of "big data", large text files (GB or more) could be commonly encountered around us. Suppose you somehow need to search and edit one of those big text files by hand. Or you could be...
View ArticleHow to Start a Program Automatically in Linux Desktop
Sometimes you may want to launch a program automatically when you log in to your Linux desktop. Such start-up programs can conduct system-wide configuration (e.g., auto proxy) or user-specific desktop...
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Troubleshooting in the Command Line: Tips for Linux Beginners
Linux has come a long way in its short life, and it's more reliable and stable than ever. But things still go wrong, and you can diagnose and fix just about anything. Desktop Freezes Compositing...
View ArticleHow to Access Twitter from the Command Line on Linux
There is no shortage of Twitter clients available, differing in terms of features, operating system support, interface, mobile capabilities, etc. If you are one of those command line junkies, there is...
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Benchmarking the ODroid XU: A Fast-Clocked Quad A15 ARM Machine
The ODroid-XU contains 8 CPU cores in a big.LITTLE configuration where four of the cores are active at any time. The Single Board Computer comes with 2Gb of RAM, USB 3, a microHDMI connector able to...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know to Install SteamOS On Your Very Own Computer
True to its word, Valve has released a beta version of SteamOS, the Linux-based operating system that it will use to power its living room Steam Machine consoles. The release coincides with a lucky...
View ArticleHow to Install SteamOS in VirtualBox
As you already know, the SteamOS Linux has been officially released on December 13 and is based on Debian GNU/Linux operating system, using GNOME as its (optional) desktop environment. SteamOS is very...
View ArticleHow To Set Up Xen 4.3 On Debian Wheezy (7.0.2) And Then Upgrade To Jessie
How To Set Up Xen 4.3 On Debian Wheezy (7.0.2) And Then Upgrade To Jessie This will be a quick and easy setup of XEN(dom0-hypervisor) and one virtual system (domU-guest). I wanted to test out XEN as...
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How to Install SteamOS and Configure Wifi and Audio
Most people in the desktop gaming world are familiar with Valve's Steam service. Last year they added a new feature to the regular desktop app called Big Picture. This newer interface for Steam is...
View ArticleHow to Set Password Policy on Linux
User account management is one of the most critical jobs of system admins. In particular, password security should be considered the top concern for any secure Linux system. In this tutorial, I will...
View ArticleHow to Integrate Android Into KDE Linux Desktop
KDE desktop has long been favored by many Linux geeks because it has every element to fulfill their appetite: customizable every bit of it, aesthetically pleasing desktop effects, openness to adopting...
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Using Bcache to Soup Up Your SATA Drives
Most Linux users that employ Solid State Drives (SDDs) build their systems with the smaller SSDs holding the operating system and the larger, slower, much cheaper HDD drives holding their data. When...
View ArticleUsing rsync to Synchronize a Local and Remote Directory
Recently I had moved my blog from WordPress to a custom python script that generates static HTML pages. After generating files I need to copy them to my web servers. While it is easy enough to FTP or...
View ArticleHow to Access Facebook from the Command Line on Linux
A today's Facebook page is composed of a mix of sophisticated dynamic content, constantly updated with your latest timeline, your friends' status updates, notifications, online chats, third-party...
View ArticleHow to Check Internet Speed from the Command Line on Linux
When you are experiencing slow Internet access, you may want to test the Internet speed of your upstream ISP (often called "last mile" in the residential broadband networks) as part of...
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