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Internet Friendly Media Encoder – Fast and Easy x265 GUI Multimedia Encoder
About Internet Friendly Media Encoder(IFME) In our previous articles, we have discussed about some popular encoders such as, Handbrake Selene In the same series, today we will discuss yet another encoder called Internet Friendly Media Encoder or shortly known as IFME. It will help you to encode videos using x265. Using IFME, we can encode […]
Install Shinken Monitoring Framework On Ubuntu
About Shinken Monitoring Framework Shinken is an open source monitoring framework based on Nagios core. It is written using Python and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License. Hence, It is based on Nagios core you can use the nagios configuration and plugins without modifying or re-writing them. Shinken has […]
How To Make Nvidia Optimus Technology Work (properly) On Debian
Hello guys! My name is Cosmin Crihan and I am writing this tutorial in order to show you how to make the Nvidia optimus technology properly work on Debian systems. For Ubuntu or Linux Mint users, I am aware of a little button that triggers the usage of the Nvidia X Org Server or the […]
How To Send Alerts From Nagios Core Using Gmail And Yahoo
Introduction One of the most important feature of the monitoring platform is the notification system; by default they use the local mail daemon (postfix,mail,exim) installed on the server to send the notifications. Using local mail daemon has many issues : You need to install and configure your smtp server. Maybe your mail server go down so you […]
Linux Basics: How To Check The State Of A Network Interface Card
Normally, we can easily check the state of a network interface card like whether the cable plugged in to the slot or the network card is up or down in Graphical mode. What if you have only command line mode? Ofcourse, you can turn around the system and check for the cable is properly plugged […]
VeraCrypt: Secure Your Data On An Encrypted Volume
Introduction As you may know, CIA, Confidentiality/Integrity/Availability, is the main key elements of Information Security. The main Job of a System Administrator/Security expert is to protect the data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, destruction, and modification. There are n number of tools and methods are available out there to secure your data. The one […]
Install VMware Tools On Linux
This method should work on ESXi/Vsphere/Vmware Workstation. Please follow the following instructions, It is same for installing vmware tools for linux. How to install VMware Tools in a CentOS Guest First, you must select option for Install/Upgrade Tools in your eSXI./Vshere/Vmware Workstation To this, Right click on virtual machine→ Guest Menu → Install/Upgrade Vmware Tools. […]
Install Oracle Client On CentOS
This installation is same for all rpm based systems like (Centos/Fedora/RHEL/SLES/Opensuse/Mandriva..) This tutorial is about 11.2 version client, but should work even for 12.1 version. Packages are: oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient11.2-sqlplus-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm In the future, i will include a post with how to download these packages. 1. Oracle Client Installation Go to Downloaded rpm packages directory and [&...