Good news to all Fedora fans. Fedora 9 codenamed “Sulphur” is out.
The new release comes with quite a few new features. To start off. Fedora 9 runs on the latest 2.6.25 kernel. There’s a new package management system included called “Packgeit” which uses Yum for it’s backend. Gnome Desktop 2.22 and KDE 4.03 are the [...]

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Its sometimes necessary to limit who has access to a server via SSH. Most Linux security hardening checklist today require this to be enforced.
Fortunately this can be easily done with openSSH. Just edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and add the desired directives shown below. You don’t need them all, just use what suits you needs.
openSSH provides [...]

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rpm -qa –last will return all installed rpm packages with their installed time. The last installed packages will be at the top of the list.
rpm -qa –last | less is will return all installed packages with their install date. Less allows you to scroll through the results.
rpm -qa –last | tail -n [lines] will [...]

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This is how you would restart the snmpd service on AIX.
oslevel is used to return the current OS level. stopsrc -s [service] to stop and startsrc -s [service] to start a service.
[root@kakuna]:/# oslevel
4.3.3.0
[root@kakuna]:/# stopsrc -s snmpd
0513-044 The snmpd Subsystem was requested to stop.
[root@kakuna]:/# stopsrc -s snmpd
0513-004 The Subsystem or Group, snmpd, is currently inoperative.
[root@kakuna]:/# [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG7cM5Yvhz4

A spanking new release of Google Earth is out. The latest 4.3 release comes with Photo Realistic 3D modeling for buildings, “Swoop navigation” for an improved navigation experience, “Light and shadow” to catch sunrise and sunset from anywhere and finally the popular “Street View” which was previously a Google Maps only feature.
Now something to excite [...]

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