Linux

Red Hat Linux Training and Certification

Red Hat Training provides classroom-based courses at convenient worldwide locations and in a variety of topics. I’ve just finished my training for RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials, last week. Among Linux Red Hat training you can get here in Malaysia are: RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials RH131 Red Hat Linux System Administration RH253 Red Hat …

Installing Google Gadgets on Ubuntu 8.10

Google Desktop gadgets are interactive mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on the user’s desktop to show new email, weather, photos, personalized news or other desired information. Google offers a gallery of pre-built gadgets for download on the official website. To install Google Gadgets on Ubuntu 8.10: 1. Download the .deb package. 2. Install the …

Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10

The long awaited Ubuntu 8.10 has been released! I’m upgrading it from my Hardy 8.04 to this new version Intrepid Ibex, 8.10, as I’m writing this post. I’m using the Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Desktops. The method is fairly easy, provided by the Ubuntu website. 1. Start System/Administration/Software Sources. 2. Click on the “Updates” tab …

GrNotify: Your Google Reader Feeds Notification

I’m addicted to my rss feeds. I go over the feeds for tech news, current affairs, friends blogs, and many more. However, I don’t want to go to www.google.com/reader each time want to find out what’s new. This is where desktop applications that provides Google Reader notifications comes in. For Windows: We have Google Reader …

Accessing Remote Drive in Linux via SSHFS

There may be a case where you may want to access a certain directory or drive on a remote machine, and mount it to your local PC. For example, I have a headless CentOS box running Apache where all of my web application codes are sitting. Editing those web application codes are a nightmare when …