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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How To : Force User to Change Password at First Login

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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No More Linux For Your PS3

Sony’s PlayStation 3 is choice of most of the gamers in this world, but at the same time it is choice of those people, who would like to use their gaming station as a desktop system too. Yes, till mach 2010, you could have installed linux (also other operating systems too) on your PlayStation 3 and could have used it as your desktop also.

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Secure Your SSH Server with Denyhosts

As soon as you connect to the internet to do any of your daily tasks or connect your server to provide some service, it means that you are exposing your system to lots of threat and to people who are ready to play with your system just for fun or some personal interest.

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Yahoo looking for Principal Engineers

Yahoo is looking for Principal Engineers, for their Service Engineering team. Below is a small description of the job:

Principal Engineer, Service Engineering

Service Engineering and Operations @ Yahoo! is responsible for the complete end-to-end Operations of Yahoo! products and the underlying Infrastructure. The 600 million unique users who come to our sites every month expect the best-in-class reliability and

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