Okay so I'm not really a newbie, but this bugs the crap out of me (rant on). Every so often I need to change the system time. I run "man date" and always find the "date -s" command, but for who knows how long, the manual page has *never* listed the format of the input string requ...

my question seems to be simple but i need help on that , actually i am having Fujitsu Siemens Celsius M420 , M440 workstations having 73 GB U320 10 K rpm SCSI HD , i got new HDs 15 K rpm with the same size 68 pins U320 SCSI ,my operating system is SCO Openserver 5.0.6 & Redhat linux release 9 i ...

Hello, I'm posting this in the "Unix for Dummies" forum, since it is more of a theoretical question than an exact problem/fix I'm inquiring about. I have a SunFire T2000 server with 4 internal hard drives, running Solaris 10. (So far so good :) The company just purchased a large EMC SAN. N...

Media files, data synchronization, and remote backups, oh my! Home computing has advanced to a point where it's practical to run your own home server, and we're running down the five best tools for the job. Photo by Rudolf Schuba. Earlier this week we asked you to tell us what software you used to p...

Every Sunday, I perform a set of jobs on all my computers. They help optimize the system, save hard disk space, increase security and privacy, etc.   Clean: Using CCleaner, I clean the PCs including all the browser caches and various other application caches. (Read my introduction to CCleaner here....

My intention was to build a dual boot XP Pro 64 and Ubuntu media server. I had installed the AMD64 version of Ubuntu 8.10 server and thought that I would be able to install Apache server. I need a GUI to work in. I tried to boot and install Mythbuntu 32 bit 8.10, but my machine now won't recognize t...

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat - good coders code, great reuse - Netcat is often referred to as a “Swiss Army knife” utility, and for a good reason. Just like the multi-function usefulness of the venerable Swiss Army pocket knife, netcat’s functionality is as helpful....

Hello, everyone! :] I'm having an issue with my camera/uploading to Photobucket. When my camera transfers it's photos to my hard drive, it transfers them as .JPG. Unfortunately, when I go to upload to my Photobucket account, it only accepts .jpg & .jpeg files. Every time I want to upload, I have...

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Epoch time started January 1, 1970. According to the Epoch clock, we hit 1234567890 today! Now you will be able to say where you were when that time passed! I swear it, gumdrops were falling from the sky in Seattle, and yes - I really did cha...

Auguri a tutti i geek! Oggi, adesso, è l’Epoch Time 1234567890. Per chi non sapesse cosa sia l’Epoch si tratta del numero che rappresenta il numero di secondi passati dal 1 gennaio 1970 ed utilizzato per calcolare il timing interno in Unix. ciuaz...