Posts Tagged ‘Linux’
support.microsoft.com not working behind Squid
Can you access support.microsoft.com? Chances are you can’t if you’re behind a squid proxy. Here’s the fix/workaround, Add the lines below into your squid.conf file. should be in /etc/squid/squid.conf. Restart squid and you should be good to go. #> vi /etc/squid/squid.conf add lines into /etc/squid.conf # Fix support.microsoft.com by removing Accept-Encoding header acl support.microsoft.com dstdomain [...]
Google Earth for Linux
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG7cM5Yvhz4[/youtube] 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 [...]
How to upgrade MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 on CentOS 4
I was playing a round with new software today which needed MySQL 5. My server’s running CentOS 4.6 which ships by default with MySQL 4. The to upgrade to MySQL 5 from MySQL 4 is easy. There are 2 options you could use. The first option would require you to remove all MySQL 4 packages [...]
100 opensource applications
Here‘s a list of 100 popular opensource applications. From audio editing to 3d graphics, there’s an application out there for everyone. The list comes in handy for those new to Linux. Moving to Linux has never been easy for Windows users. The major reason being applications. Hopefully the list will make that transition smoother ans [...]
How to change the system date in Linux
A friend needed help changing the system date on his Linux box today. This is usually a simple task for Linux users but newbies tend to get confused by the “date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]” line in the man page. To simplify, this is how you do it. Set the current date to April 7 2008 8:42:45pm. [...]
