Guides

How to run MTR report on Ubuntu

by Ruchira on April 2, 2013

  MTR its a well known network diagnostic tool which you can use to troubleshoot connectivity problems on your network or servers. As the official web site for MTR says mtr combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool. As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the […]

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How to install Evernote on Ubuntu

by Ruchira on March 13, 2013

  Evernote is my favorite note taking application which I use everyday to keep in track of my work and even these blog posts. Whenever I get an idea I jot down it on my Evernote app on my Android, Mac or Evernote web page on my Ubuntu PC. If you are frequent reader of this blog you […]

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Are you working on Arduino on your Ubuntu environment? If you are using it for the first time you might get face a problem that, Ubuntu doesn’t detect your Arduino board and you cant select the serial port by going to Tools -> serial Port because serial port is grayed out. Fixing this is easy. This happens […]

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Ever heard about Ksplice? Its a great addon to install Linux kernel updates and patches without rebooting the system. Ksplice is a gem for people who run servers because they can install critical updates without rebooting the host. Well if you are used to run latest kernels from the sources, thanks to recent security issues and rapid […]

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How to get Skype premium for free

by Ruchira on March 7, 2013

    Skype is great I use it everyday, and there is Skype premium which is greater but comes at a cost. If you have relatives,friends or some special one that you wanna talk to, on those Skype premium supported countries, there wont be anything that will beat Skype’s pricing for landline and mobile calls. […]

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Bootstrap online editor

by Ruchira on March 1, 2013

As a web designer you should have heard about bootstrap. Its free and websites built with it looks great. However it might take little bit of work for you to get used to it. However if you wish to start with the easy way, there is Jetstrap    

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      I have written many guides on how you can setup proxies and VPN tunnels to access the country restricted web sites such as Hulu,Netflix,Pandora,BBC Iplayer .  However those things comes at a cost and average internet users wont like to make their own VPN or Proxy. And another limitation of those is […]

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How to install LNMP on Ubuntu,Debian,Centos

by Ruchira on January 10, 2013

  Linux,Nginx,Mysql and PHP is the best way to go if you are considering to give your site a speed boost by switching away from Apache. However setting up LNMP stack is little bit hard if you are newbie on linux. To automate things there is lnmp auto installer from lnmp.org and I was featuring […]

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