The “tmpwatch ” command in linux is to removes files which haven't been accessed for a period of time. The tmpwatch recursively removes files which haven't been accessed for a given time. Normally, it's used to clean up directories which are used for temporary holding space such as /tmp. If you are noticing "/tmp" getting…
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Download the favicon icon from any website
It is possible that you might like a favicon (yes the logo icon that is displayed in the browser tab) of a certain website. Now, normally most of the websites store it in the form of favicon.ico in the root directory of any website. So, you can just type in: http://domain.com/favicon.ico and download it when…
Continue readingRestrict Search Engines from finding your website
While everybody is busy getting their website more and more exposed to the search engines (SEO) - you might want to restrict search engines to crawl your website. You may have your own development website or may have your company's web based HR system - which you don't want to expose to the world. Search…
Continue readingDetermine if the storage is SSD or HDD – using linux command
You've purchased a Cloud server or a Virtual server. The server provider says it comes with an SSD (Solid State Drive). Now you definitely would like to verify whether the storage is indeed SSD or is it simple HDD (Hard Disk Drive). If you're server is running on any version of Linux OS (kernel version…
Continue readingMoving Joomla Site – VirtueMart problem – frontend and admin panel points to old path.
I recently encountered a problem with a Joomla website which had VirtuMart in it. I moved the whole joomla site from a demo server to an active server with the actual domain pointing to it. Everything worked fine as I did the required changes in the configuration.php of the joomla folder. But the VirtueMart component…
Continue readingSpeedup Firefox
1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and browser.turbo.enabled Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the…
Continue readingCMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM ???
Recently I encountered a problem with cmd.exe . Yes, I am talking about the command prompt that we get by typing cmd.exe and pressing enter in the "Start"->>"Run". The error was something like "Windows couldn't find cmd.exe". I was annoyed and remembered that the recent virus attack affected a lot of files and cmd.exe could…
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