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Compresion de archivos con Gzip, Zip y Tar

Comprimiendo archivos con Gzip y Zip Los archivos comprimidos utilizan menos espacion en disco y son descargados mas rapido. Para comprimir archivos en Linux puedes usar las herramientas de compresion Gzip o Zip. Los archivos comprimidos tienen la extension *.gz. … Continue reading

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Squid Proxy Cache | TCP_MISS/304 TCP_MISS/200

Si corres un servidor proxy cache como Squid es posible que encuentres en el archivo: /var/log/squid/access.log entradas que hagan referencia a TCP_MISS/304 y TCP_MISS/200, ver a continuacion: Linux console | $ tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log 24/Jan/2008:15:29:25 +0000 1861 10.125.4.247 TCP_MISS/304 358 GET http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation – … Continue reading

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Fedora no incluira algunos juegos por cuestiones de patentes

Ahora resulta que Fedora no incluira mas en su distribucion juegos que cumplan con el siguiente criterio: “… juegos donde los objetivos se muevan en la pantalla hasta un punto determinado o linea, en donde el jugador debera acccionar (presionar) … Continue reading

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Linux | Live CD’s – gparted & clonezilla

Something I really like about the Open Source World is the versatility and usability of almost every system or application and obviously how cheap (or unexpensive) they are. There are a lot of examples, the Apache Web Server or MySQL … Continue reading

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CentOS 5 | NTFS support for Linux

Hi All, After three hours finally my Linux box is able to mount NTFS partitions. Check this link: Linux-NTFS RPMs Documentation. Is really simple, you only need to download the appropriate RPM file. By the way, it just works fine … Continue reading

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Fedora Core 6 | How long are my services running?

If you need to know how long your Linux services have been running you can try this: Linux console $ ps waux | grep -i Or Linux console $ ps -o etime < pid> To get the PID you can … Continue reading

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Fedora Core 6 | Enabling GD support

Do you need PHP support for GD? First you need to be sure this module is not already installed, on a shell window run the following command: Linux console $ rpm -qa | grep php If you have something like … Continue reading

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Fedora Core 4 | Upgrading to Fedora Core 5

Easily upgrade your current Fedora Core 4 linux to the next Fedora release, using only yum. 1. Run Linux console $ rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm To download the fedora-release from one of the Fedora Core mirrors. 2. Upgrade using yum Linux … Continue reading

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¿El software libre es (in) seguro?

Nota mental. “Lo que aparece en los medios de comunicación como que el código abierto es seguro y más fiable y que tiene menos fallos son afirmaciones muy peligrosas […] La alta calidad sólo se aplica a algunos proyectos, los … Continue reading

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How to change the hostname for a linux server running Fedora Core

Change the hostname for a Linux server is easy, you only need: – A text editor, like Vi or Emacs. – Shell access as “root” obviously. Those are the steps: 1. Showing the current hostname Type the next command: Linux … Continue reading

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