Archive for 'HOWTOS'

Tech Tip : Sending Email from Command line

Everyone is not as lucky as having a full fletched email client like thunderbird or kmail to send mails. There is one unlucky group known as system administrators who have to send the mails either through the command line or a script running on the remote server. Also, apart from sending the emails, sometimes one needs to test or debug the email server which can’t be done by traditional email clients. If you are one of those system administrators and are scared, then you shouldn’t be, because this is where netcat comes to rescue.

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Configure Tata Photon Whiz On Ubuntu Linux

Tata indicom is offering unlimited surfing plus download at very affordable prices with their Tata Photon Whiz. Although it’s at compromised speeds but still, it is unlimited.
Configuring this card at windows is pretty much easy, as it is always with all other softwares. Within few clicks, your card will be working and you will be ready to browse net within sometime. but as always, configuring it on Ubuntu linux is not so easy but at the same time not so difficult too if you follow right steps. Below I will be explaining them.

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How To : Write Greasemonkey Scripts

Greasemonkey is a extension of Firefox which allows users to do client level tweaking/changes in the web pages. Greasemonkey can be used for following purposes:

  • To add new functionality into the web page.
  • To remove unwanted feature from the web page
  • To simplify your work with doing bulk jobs in single shot.

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How To : Print Linux man & info Pages

I had heard this question a lot of time and also seen people struggling to take the printout of Linux man pages, instead of the fact that it is one of the very simplest task.

This can be done in a series of steps or in one single steps. I will be explaining both here.

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Q. How I should enforce users to change password at their first login ?

A. This is one of the very basic needs which shows up in most of the companies. As a system admin, I am sure this will be asked from you.

To setup this there are various ways, but I believe one of the very simplest one is the one I am going to explain below.

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