How To Build A Self-hosted WordPress Blog For Free

2010-02-04 1 min read Linux

A blog is a layman-friendly variation of a website, and having a blog is one of the many ways to state your presence in the virtual world. While there are many hassle-free blog services out there that will take care of everything except automatically blog for you – like <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/blogger">Blogger and <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/wordpress">WordPress, nothing can beat a self-hosted blog in the terms of customization and self pride.

The problem is, the process of building your own self-hosted blog is (almost always) not free and is considered complicated. So most newbies will choose the easier path and never give themselves a chance to experiment.

Top 3 Sites To Help You Become A Linux Command Line Master]

2010-02-04 0 min read Linux

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The truth about Linux today is that one may never have to actually <a class="zem_slink" title="Spice Girls" rel="homepage" href="http://www.thespicegirls.com">touch a terminal or issue a single Linux command in order to run some versions of this flexible alternative <a class="zem_slink" title="Operating system" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system">operating system. While there are times when using the Linux <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/an-introduction-to-the-linux-command-line/">command line could be expeditious and the benefits of possessing the ability to use it are numerous, many users can be intimidated by the prospect.

Damn Vulnerable Linux – DVL review

2010-02-04 1 min read Linux

Today morning I got a chance to look at one of the other less commonly known Linux Distribution and out of the line distribution, very good for Learning purposes. The distribution is known as DVL (Damn Vulnerable Linux). As the name suggest this is for people looking at developing their skills in Security and Penetration testing. Quite a lot of good and interesting tools are included. More is left for users to experiment but I definately liked the distribution. Here is the <a href="http://www.damnvulnerablelinux.org/" target="_blank">homepage.

chfn – Change finger information

2010-02-04 1 min read Linux

Finger is a nifty nice utility to get the information on the user. A sample output of the command is as below:

-0-(ak) ~ > finger ak
Login: ak Name: Amit Agarwal
Directory: /home/amitag Shell: /bin/bash
Office: MGL
On since Sun Oct 19 13:50 (IST) on tty7 from :0
On since Sun Oct 19 13:50 (IST) on pts/0 from :0.0
No mail.
No Plan.
All this information can be changed with the command chfn. No hassles, just type in the command it does the rest, asking you for the information whatever required. You can also specify the details in the command itself with the below mentioned parmateres:

Color output from ls – based on file type

2010-02-04 1 min read Bash Linux

Threre are certain default variables which control the color of the output from the ls command, so we will talk about them today.

The first one is to get the color output from the ”ls” command. We will look at the various ways to do this:

First is to use this with default colors:

ls –color=auto

Now this will use the default colors which might not go with your liking 🙂 So if you want to change the colors you can use the variable called LS_COLORS.

Crossfire game server.. free connection.

2010-02-04 1 min read Fedora

I have setup a Free to use Crossfire game server. If you want to play the game, you can connect to amit.themafia.info

For playing the game you would need the client to connect to it which you can install with

yum install crossfire-client

then you can run the game with ”cfclient” and then connect to amit.themafia.info.

Gentoo, Knoppix and Linux Console Screenshots

2010-02-03 2 min read Linux

Finally I decided to try a few distro’s that I downloaded with Beldi.

Gentoo: Quite Small distribution. Did not configure my DHCP address and also did not start a X window also so did not try too much.

Knoppix: Well known for its recovery functions, the Live CD does discover all the hardware and boots pretty nicely to the X windows directly with the ethernet configured.
I specially liked the fact that the boot up to X window theme looked quite similar and the background did not change which is quite soothing. And no doubt the desktop background included by default is quite good.

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