Recover the Login Account in Ubuntu Shell

Remembering a lot of accounts and password is a tiring job for a system administrator. Usually there would be a time that you'll forgot ...

Setting Up an FTP Server Access in Linux

FTP transfer or transferring via file transfer protocol is one of the most common methods on uploading your files to a server especially in ...

Enable USB devices from a Unix Host to a Virtualbox Client

1) First thing to make sure is that you have installed VirtualBox extensions. Installing virtualbox extensions: a) Download the file at ...

Update Firefox/Mozilla on Linux Systems

Firefox update on Linux are often disabled which makes it only applicable via manual update. So for you to update it you need to type some...

Run Windows VirtualMachine on CentOS

I have been a Unix user in the office since the last quarter of last year, a Centos box to be exact. There are some issues I have found on t...

Install Ruby on Rails in Ubuntu server and run using Passenger

This is a simple guide for running Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS using passenger for production environment. Everything was version spec...

Update ImageMagick on CentOS

Download your latest ImageMagick version at: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php Untar and change directory to that folder ...

Installing Ruby on Rails 2.3.8 in CentOS 5.X

I have just re-installed Ruby on Rails on my CentOS 5.X machine. Good thing I don't delete my history on the browser and so I was able...

CentOS Error: "cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied"

I'm trying to convert an AVI to FLV using. I installed ffmpeg using: yum install ffmpeg NOTE: It would be better if you also install...