Dar is a shell command that makes backup of a directory tree and files. Its features include splitting archives over several files, CDs, ZIPs, or floppies, compression, full or differential backups, strong encryption, proper saving and restoration of hard links and extended attributes, remote backup using pipes and external command (such as ssh), and rearrangement […]
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Yearly Archives: 2007
Realtime Apache monitoring with apachetop
Apache top is a curses-based realtime utility to display information from a running copy of Apache.It is modelled after the standard ‘top’ utility, and displays information such as the requests pers second, bytes per second and the most popular URLs displayed.It must be run from a machine running Apache, as it works by processing the […]
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Special Characters made easier in Ubuntu
If you are using Ubuntu Dapper Drake, you could press CTRL+SHIFT and then the unicode for special characters so you didn’t have to copy and paste them from the Character palette every time you wanted to use them.
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Display system Information (Uptime,CPU,Memory,SCSI,IDE,PCI,Ethernet,Floppy,and Video) Using Phpsysinfo
phpSysInfo is a customizable PHP script that parses various files in /proc and displays them. It will display information about system facts like Uptime, CPU, Memory, SCSI, IDE, PCI, Ethernet, Floppy, and Video. It now has full internationalization support along with customizable templates.
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