Friday, October 28, 2011

Bleachbit

See:- http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/

BleachBit Features:-

* Free disk space
* Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files
* Maintain privacy
* Improve system performance (by vacuuming the Firefox database, for example)
* Clear the memory and swap on Linux
* Delete broken shortcuts on Linux
* Clean APT for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Linux Mint
* Find widely-scatted junk such as Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files.
* Execute yum clean for CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat to remove cached package data
* Delete Windows registry keys—often where MRU (most recently used) lists are stored
* Delete the OpenOffice.org recent documents list without deleting the whole Common.xcu file
* Overwrite free disk space to hide previously files

* Surgically remove private information from .ini and JSON configuration files with deleting the whole file

* Vacuum Firefox, Google Chrome, Liferea, Thunderbird, and Yum databases: shrink files without removing data to save space and improve speed


* Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for "ghost" backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space


* Delete the Firefox version 3 URL history without deleting the whole file—with optional shredding

* Delete Linux localizations: delete languages you don't use. More powerful than localepurge and available on more Linux distributions.





Tuesday, October 18, 2011

How to make hidden shares via samba ?

How to make hidden shares via samba ?


soln:-

set the browseable directive as no in the share definition

i.e set browseable = no



In windows append the $ character on a windows share name to make it hidden


How to access hidden share(s) ?

In order to access hidden shares from linux machine , type the unc name from the nautilus window or any utility used for accessing samba share.

ex:- type ALT-F2 in order to get run command window , then type smb://ip_addr/hidden-share-name


from windows:-

net use * \\hidden-share-location /user: username



NB:- tested in ubuntu 10.04

Saturday, October 15, 2011

instant messaging on LAN

install iptux package

Features:-

* Auto-detect other iptux users.
* Create shared resources (send files).
* Password protect resources.
* Change your online information.







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Sunday, October 9, 2011

how to use netstat command to identify problems with network interface ?




if you are seeing no:s other than zero in the columns RX-ERR , RX-DRP , RX-OVR , TX-ERR , TX-DRP , TX-OVR there will be issues with nw interface such as

i) buffers aren’t big enough
ii) flaw in cable
iii) processor is pre-occupied