Category: Linux

Overriding ISP Provided DNS Server

Overriding ISP Provided DNS Server

Overriding ISP Provided DNS Server in Ubuntu 12.04If you’re on Ubuntu 12.04, you’ll notice how DNS severs are no longer set in /etc/resolv.conf, rather /etc/resolv.conf points to 127.0.0.1, and NetworkManager runs an instance of...

Adventures with Shared Libraries on Linux

Shared libraries (The equivalent of a dynamic link library in Windows) are bits of code which sit outside of a program, and can be shared by multiple programs simultaneously. Unlike a static library, which...

Google Chrome for Linux — no longer beta

[shahada@pc-shahada ~]$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable [sudo] password for shahada: Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: foomatic-db-gutenprint ijsgutenprint...

Work: How to Partially Migrate a PostgreSQL database

Work: How to Partially Migrate a PostgreSQL database

Assuming you have database on hostA and want to copy it to this host: Create the database on hostB sudo su – postgres “createuser –pwprompt –superuser –createdb newdba -h hostB” createdb -U newdba newdb...

VMWare: Resizing Windows XP’s C:

It’s a typical situation for most Linux users … you acquire a copy of VMWare, create a XP system for “testing purposes”. Since it’s only for testing, you only allocate 8GB of space for...