The Raspberry Pi is a great device with many possibilities and one such great use is as a NAS server for your LAN. The Raspberry Pi by itself is limited by the space it can offer so you will need … Continue reading →

Sometimes there is just a need to monitor specific files or filesystems and perform actions or receive notifications, this is where incron can help. incron is for monitoring filesystem activity. It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator. You … Continue reading →

Using the command-line in your everyday activities more than the GUI sometimes shows the geek you are. If you haven’t read the Episode 5 of this tutorial, here it is. Here is another useful commands that will help you to … Continue reading →

In every society there is always the good and the bad. The bad are working day in day out to harm the works of the good. But the the bad always make the good move up higher since the good … Continue reading →

We recently published article about how to determine your computer’s architecture via GUI. Today am going to show how to do the same thing from the command-line with more advanced options in viewing the computer hardware properties as well. Checking … Continue reading →

Windows OS users might have used Webshots desktop software which is used to change their desktop backgrounds at particular interval. The users don’t need to change the wallpapers manually, the Webshots desktop will do it for them. Unfortunately webshots are available only … Continue reading →

A gateway is a node or a router that acts as an access point to passes network data from local networks to remote networks. There are many ways to find out your gateway in Linux. Here are some of them … Continue reading →

rsnapshot is a filsystem snapshot utility written in Perl. It is a remote backup utility used to take single or multiple backup of filesystems from local or remote systems using rsync. In this tutorial, my scenario will be as follows: … Continue reading →

Mozilla Firefox browser comes with a PDF viewer/PDF plugin by default. Here is a simple tip to disable default PDF viewer in your Firefox. Method 1 Open up Mozilla Firebox browser and type about:config in the address bar. Select I’ll … Continue reading →

A dictionary is a container that stores Python objects and each item  of the dictionary consist of a key and value. Python dictionaries are also known as associative arrays or hash tables. Curly brackets distinguish a dictionary from other objects. … Continue reading →