The mysqldump client is a backup program originally written by Igor Romanenko. It can be used to dump a database or a collection of databases for backup or transfer to another SQL server (not necessarily a MySQL server). The dump … Continue reading →

Workstation. It’s a term in the IT industry that either gets you very excited because of the sheer performance of such systems due to the hardware associated with a workstation. Or on the other hand, the term may scare the … Continue reading →

Recently, CLI is mostly used by Linux/Unix administrators since most popular linux distros come with a complete set of GUI applications that make the user use less and less the command line. In our previous post, we saw 11 useful commands … Continue reading →

Log files are very valuable files for Linux system security. In Linux, almost all log files are stored in ‘/var/log‘ directory.

VLC 2.0 “Twoflower” has been released, this  is a major release of VLC that comes with faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware, ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs.

Cinnamon is the new desktop environment created around the Gnome 3.2, to give power Gnome Shell users a Gnome 2 like layout and experience. It is develloped and maintened by LinuxMint team. The latest release is Cinnamon1.3.

If you prefer that the NumLock is activated automatically when you turn on your computer, then follow the instructions in this post.

Nagios  is  one of  the most  powerful  open source  monitoring tool,  its  giving  the opportunity for monitoring  all OS and  devices ,   in our previous posts, we did show you how to install Nagios from source in Fedora and … Continue reading →

LibreOffice 3.5 has been released, this is a major release that comes with many new features and improvements, in this release for the first time will be enabled the online update checker which informs users when a new version of … Continue reading →

Question : How to disable server signature using .htaccess or by editing apache config file?