2 Blogs for Linux Enthusiasts

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Hi everyone, what i notice, Linux blogs are not as famous as other niche blogs. It is so hard to  find good-written Linux blogs. But, today i want to list 2 Linux blog that i like to read. Every blog has each advantages. Feel free to visit them.

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December 22nd, 2009 | 4 Comments

How to Know The Speed of Network Interface Card (NIC) in Linux

Yesterday morning, i went to one of my site in Kuala Lumpur. I am doing my job in my client’s data centre. During that time, my client entered the data centre and asked me

“Azim, do you know how to check the speed of network interface card in Linux?”

I blanked.

“Let me google first”, I said to her. Thanks to this post by cyberciti.biz. Below is the command to check your NIC speed in Linux

# dmesg | grep -i duplex

And the output is

eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0×45E1


December 4th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Fundamental of VI Editor

Hi, in this holiday mood, i have many ideas to write in my blog. Today, i just want to post short note dedicated to my readers about fundamental of VI (very fundamental). The knowledge of VI is essential to everyone who want to be system engineer or administrator (like me).

VI Editor is a family of screen-oriented text editors which share common characteristics, such as methods of invocation from the operating system command interpreter, and characteristic user interface features. The portable subset of the behavior of vi programs, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by, and thus standardized by the Single Unix Specification[1] and POSIX.

I just want to teach you several “commands” in VI.
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September 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment

How to Disable GRUB timeout

Do you ever GRUB? GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader. Briefly, boot loader is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. GRUB is installed by default if u installed linux in your computer. the function of this GRUB is when you use multiple OS in your computer. You can choose your desired OS in GRUB interface. You are given5 seconds to choose your desired OS. After 5 seconds. GRUB will boot to your default OS. For me, it is annoying. That 10 seconds is called GRUB timeout. Today, i want to teach you how to disable  GRUB timeout.

1. Go to /boot/grub/grub.conf
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September 5th, 2009 | 4 Comments

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