Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Compact Monitoring System-ZABBIX

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Monitoring a server is an essential process to keep it healthy. Managing logs and status of the services of your servers in a human readable and viewable form is now very easy and handy. ZABBIX is an open source compact and complete monitoring system. I can comfortably call it ...

Experience virtualization with VM-Knoppix

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Virtualization means running multiple Operating system at the same time, It can be done at server scale and also on the desktop level. Here we are going to discuss briefly about the desktop virtualization with VM-KNOPPIX. Live CD. Virtualization provides you low infrastructure cost because single Operating system can ...

Monitoring HPC

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

What is HPC??? HPC stands for high performance computing and to get most efficient result set for solving engineering tasks, HPC is used. HPC term is normally used to represent teraflop 10 ^12 (10 power 12) and Super computer also operate at this level of speed. These types of deployment ...

Opensource Router-XORP

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Another leap by opensource community for deploying routable  network. My old post about Mikrotik router is very similar with this but the big difference between mikrotik and xorp is XORP (eXtensible open source router) is completely free…. No licence is required for it. Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernel and BSD ...

Email with database-DBMail

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Who doesn’t want to have a fast and reliable solution for an emails delivery? Now another refreshing product in open source development is DBMail. Currently it is supporting sqlLite, postgre, mysql. Its name is suggesting that mail contents including attachments are stored in database which is highly scalable and flexible. ...

Mikrotik-Low cost router

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

We have heard so much about cisco routers and catalysts and why not, because cisco has so much variations and provide reliable products that why highly penetrated in a IT industry, but one thing about cisco is it cost which is unbearable for a small and medium enterprise (SME) so ...

Software for disables

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Now another amazing project for those who cant see and really want to work as system administrators and network security especialists, LSR (Linux Screen Reader). LSR is an open source project started by gnome and helps in intracting with linux software interfaces. The speech engine behind it plays and important ...

Almost free International Calls

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Who doesn't want to talk and share their thoughts... every one wants to communicate at low cost. Now in this era where internet made this world a global village, its very easy to listen voices of your beloved ones by using VOIP (voice over ip). so far so good but ...

Copy Complete Website in no time

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Another great and small multi threaded Microsoft windows based tool helped me out in coping a complete website in just few clicks. Many times we normally come across such websites that contains lots of pages like documentations and technical articles, if it contains more than 100 pages then it wouldn't ...

Installing Softwares on Linux

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Downloading & Installing packages in Linux: This small and basic tutorial helps you in downloading & installing different available packages in linux. Downloading packages is not a big deal, few commands and you can get through with your basic assignments.