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Enable Telnet Access For Netgear Wireless Router DGND3700 [ N600 ]

Neggear DGND3700 is an all-in-one router with built-in ADSL2+ modem and WAN gigabit Ethernet port for cable/fiber combined with a wireless router create the integrated home gateway. How do I enable...

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lftp Mirror Command Exclude Matching Files [ Regex ]

I want to mirror a directory using ftp and want to exclude certain subdirectories (such as logs) and file ending with *.cvs. How do I exclude files while mirroring using lftp command under Linux or...

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Bash History: Correct / Repeat The Last Command With a Substitution

I often type the wrong command as follows under Linux bash shell: rsync -av dir1 user@server1.cyberciti.biz:/path/to/dir1 OR cp -av file1*.txt file2*.txt /path/to/dest I need to correct those command...

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Linux: Find Out What’s Using Up All Virtual Memory

How do I list or display all processes, executables, and shared libraries that are using up all virtual memory under CentOS or Debian Linux server for troubleshooting purpose?Read answer to: "Linux:...

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Linux: Find Number of CPU Cores Command

How do I find out the number of CPU cores available under HP x86_64 Linux serer running on RHEL / Debian Linux 6.x?Read answer to: "Linux: Find Number of CPU Cores Command"    

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ls* Commands Are Even More Useful Than You May Have Thought

Everything is a file under Linux and ls* and friends can help you to dig out more information from the system than you originally thought. These Linux tips may come in handy when you need to find out...

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Linux Firefox X11: Turn On 3D View Button

Mozilla Firefox version 11.x+ has support for 3D view. It is a WebGL based website visualization tool that highlights page structure. You can see relationship between your code and the page output by...

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Debian Linux 6: Install libdvdcss2 For DVD Decryption Playback

How do I install libdvdcss2 which is part of the VideoLAN project to play DVDs under Debian Linux 6 (squeeze) operating system?Read answer to: "Debian Linux 6: Install libdvdcss2 For DVD Decryption...

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Debian / Ubuntu Linux: Install and Configure Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall)

I know how to setup a firewall under RHEL / Fedora and CentOS Linux quickly. How do I setup a host-based firewall under Debian or Ubuntu Linux server or desktop system? How do I install Shoreline...

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Amazon Glacier: Cloud Storage For Archives And Backups Launched

Amazon web services (AWS) launched a new service called Amazon Glacier. You can use this service for archiving mission-critical data and backups in a reliable way in an enterprise IT or for personal...

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Debian / Ubuntu Linux: Install SquidGuard Web Filter Plugin For Squid 3.x To...

How do I install and configure SquidGuard - a web filter plugin for Squid to restrict access to domains/URLs based upon access control lists? How do I block porn, gambling, and other web-sites using...

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Linux pidstat Command: Get Statistics For Individual Tasks / Process

Process identifier (PID) is a number used by Linux / Unix kernels (and Windows operating systems) to identify a process. Usually, new processes are created using the fork() system call. Each PID (or so...

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Debian / Ubuntu Linux: Setup Wireless Access Point (WAP) with Hostapd

I've got a spare USB Wireless Adapters (WIFI adapter/dongle) and my ISP router does not support wireless option. How do I turn my home nas server into a wireless access point (WAP) that allows wireless...

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Top 6 Open Source Disk Cloning and Imaging Softwares

Disk cloning is nothing but the process of copying the contents of one hard disk (or partition) to another disk or to an "image" file. I make backup regularly using rsnapshot tool, but I also clone my...

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Linux Gnome Desktop Windows Decoration Disappeared

Sometime when I logged on to my Gnome Linux desktop I noticed that windows decoration disappeared i.e. minimize / maximaize / close buttons and other decoration gone. How do I fix this annoying problem...

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Linux / Unix: Record / Capture MMS Stream And Save To a File

How do I capture capture mms-wmv (Microsoft Media Server) streams under Linux operating systems? How do I capture capture mms://ip/foo/bar streams under Unix like operating systems?Read answer to:...

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HowTo: Linux Remove a Partition Name (/dev/sdXY entry) Temporarily

I'd like to remove /dev/sdc5 temporarily without deleting partitions on hard drive /dev/sdc under Linux operating systems?Read answer to: "HowTo: Linux Remove a Partition Name (/dev/sdXY entry)...

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Linux / Unix pv Command: Monitor Progress of Data Sent Via a Pipe

The pv command allows you to see the progress of data through a pipeline. It provides the following info:Time elapsedPercentage completed (with progress bar)Current throughput rateTotal data...

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5 Linux / Unix Commands For Connecting To The Serial Console

Most embedded Linux / BSD systems such as routers, servers and nas devices comes with console interface (serial port with RS-232). BIOS can uses this, and after boot BIOS screen I/O is redirected so...

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HowTo: Install firefox-15.0.tar.bz2 in Linux

Idownloaded Firefox version 15.0 from mozilla ftp server. The name of file is firefox-15.0.tar.bz2. How do I install Firefox under any Debian / Ubuntu / Fedora or any Linux distribution?Read answer to:...

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