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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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Tech Tip: Caffeine for Your Monitor

I am sure most of the people out there are having trouble with their monitor going to sleep or in screen saver mode while they are watching movies or flash videos on sites like hulu.

So, here is the solution.

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Tech Tip: Convert MP3 files to WAV in Linux

Although MP3 is the most commonly used format for the audio files around the world, but sometimes there are circumstances where we need a WAV format for a application, for example “Kalarm”. Now, this can be simply accomplished using “mpg321” utility. If your system does not have this utility installed, then it can be easily installed with YUM or APT-GET …

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Tech Tip: Update Hardware Clock from Command Line

In every system, there are two clocks which comes into action while setting the time, one is hardware clock and the other is linux (OS) clock. The hardware clock determines the system clock on system boot. While the system is running, changes to one of these doesn’t affect the other. Normally you can follow any procedure, like first update one …

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Lots of people use web server for various tasks, but not all of them need a full-fledged web server which will take a lot of time to configure (if you are a naive) and will eat up system resources.

So, when you just need a webserver with GET and HEAD request handler, then you can use a module in python …

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