How to install WGET on Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

WGET is a reliable download utility for UNIX and Linux. I have found it to be more reliable to Continue Reading

After traversing directories and files it is easy to forget the exact path you may be working in. To see this in unix or Linux, use Continue Reading

When setting up your own domain name for Google Apps or Google Hosted Email service, Google only provides you with 5 MX records and values. It turns out, they have 3 more for a total of 8.

Here are the MX records and their recommended Priority values to use for your domain name in the format of priority, and value. Make sure to include the Continue Reading

Have you ever installed packages from one repository only to wish you had just stuck with the vendor’s original repositories? I had problems myself with package conflicts between RPMForge and CentOS Updates repository, mainly, because I forgot to use the “yum-priorities” plugin at the time. I’ve since learned and corrected that, and in the process wanted to get rid of any rpmforge installed packages for the sake of stability.

To list all packages installed on your system, run Continue Reading

If you use Tarball or Gzip file archives for storing your data, occasionally you may need to extract only a few select files or directories, rather than the entire archive file’s contents. Many people waste time, CPU, and drive space extracting the entire archive only to get access to a few of the contents, then to discard the rest of the data.

Why should one wait on files to extract that will just be deleted immediately after, without being used? Thanks to the great minds behind the tar application for Unix and Linux; we have been privileged with a solution. A little-known time saving tip is that extracting only specified directories or files from a tar gzip file is possible. Continue Reading