Newbie’s to Linux often face the dilemma of where to install or put the binaries of any software app they wish to run on their Linux. If that app comes with a installer it’s ok but if not then It’s tough time , well here I would recommend some important points to consider while choosing the directories for installation of your Apps etc.
If you own a Web server or a VPS and would like to see how quick it is at delivering your website pages and how efficient is it’s response time then you can try the following cUrl command from any other Linux Box and test your results, while this test will give you response time of your own website , you can still compare it with response time of popular websites like nytimes.com and lifehacker.com to get an idea of how much you lag behind them ( You can be quicker in response time too , if you have a mighty server !! )
Friends, you must have tried numerous ways to download videos / mp3 by using various plugins for firefox or other softwares or websites that did this for you , but now I am going to tell you a method that looks techie but is really easy and can help you download anything, YES you heard me right, just Anything off the internet so may it be any Video, audio , mp3 or any other streaming stuff from any website I’m not just talking about youtube or dailymotion or any other video sharing site but rather for any site , even if they are using their custom player and stuff .
Downloading MP3 or Video files is what most of us do on the internet, but it feels real bad when the audio or video file we downloaded for about an hour turns out to be bad, skippy or something else . Now that would sure make you hit your head hard on the wall, but wait here is a savior , You can use the Following methods to Listen to a Mp3 file while it is still downloading and view a video in a similar fashion. Please note that there are several players that support such incomplete files but the ones i would recommend are VLC and Winamp
This is for newbies in Linux who are trying to learn Linux and in the meantime require to install several apps most of them are available in the repository ( Ubuntu,Suse,Fedora etc .) , installing from repository is very easy but if you download a tarball or a compressed archive of the software package source code then you can easily install it using these commands at your terminal ( command interpreter )
Assuming ,
tar -zxvf mytarball.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install
assuming that you are in the directory where you downloaded the tar.gz file, for more details on this and how it works, you can read a well written article by Joshua Price here, I dont think it would be worthwhile to repeat the same steps and explanation here .
You think your CPU is Hot , here is a checklist to confirm that what you believe is true or just your fantasy,
I had Intel core2 duo on my Dell Notebook, It restarted abruptly and so I thought Heat might be the reason so I used the Dell Drivers CD to check and diagnose all my hardware at boot time ( you can do it too, just keep your driver CD in tray , restart system press f12 and select hardware diagnose and rest is easy).
Anyways, what i came up with is that Intel core 2 Duo series which is currently used in all notebooks has a maximum temperature withstanding ability ( critical temperature ) of 100 degree celsius, and to crosscheck yours you can use this freeware utility SpeedFan ( It’s dangerous too so just dont fool around with settings, just use it to see your processor temperature ), Mine was 60 degree celsius when i checked and this is a little above normal temperature which is around 50 degrees.
See how well your Processor beats the HEAT !!
For all my friends who have trouble installing tomcat , here is a simple and quick method to get your tomcat installed and you can then run your servlets and jsp scripts easily.
I am writing this brief tutorial for beginners and people with low IQ in computers , so the tutorial is straight and simple no alternatives or complexities introduced
If you are dealing with Web design or any such development work you might have faced the problem of resizing images to fit the current viewable area on any web page , Now you can do it in only two possible ways.
1. Server side Resizing – PHP
2. Client side resizing – JavaScript and CSS
Benefits of Server side resizing are easily visible as whole of the images need not be downloaded to users browser ( this stands true for Very large and HQ images) , but this requires coding and storing the resized version on your server
While client side is good if the image size is not large, ie.around 100-200 KB
