Tech Tips and Tricks
Once you install vnc4server on Linux, you need to tweak $HOME/.vnc/xstartup file to enable complete desktop (in my case Mate) through VNC. Following is the file which worked for me: !/bin/sh unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup Continue reading Enable Mate desktop with vnc
Let’s say you are logged in on your linux environment as “lalit” Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add the following at the end of the file [MyHomes] comment = Lalit’s Linux Box path = /home/lalit browseable = yes guest ok = no Continue reading Share Linux home directory using samba
For some reason when I started my CentOS VirtualBox, I was unable to connect to eth0. When I tried ifup eth0 I get “Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization” The fix for this issue is to Continue reading CentOS on VirtualBox does not show eth0
I had Windows 8 and wanted to try Ubuntu Linux. I installed Ubuntu and enabled it through dual boot. For some reason after couple of days I decided to remove Ubuntu Linux. To retrieve the space back, I booted to Continue reading Boot back to Windows from grub-rescue prompt
I found an interesting link which helped me to speed up the eclipse loading time. Let me know if that helped you.
When accessing EC2 amazon cloud, you would receive a .pem file to login to the shell. Putty does not use .pem file and you would need to convert that file to .ppk file which putty uses. In order to convert Continue reading Access AWS with Putty
I have been trying to configure apache/tomcat is such a way that apache comes on the front-end so that I can have all the features of apache like URL rewriting, virtual hosts, PHP etc. and forward only certain requests to Continue reading Integrate Apache 2 with Tomcat 6
If you want to increase the limit of open files for the current session, simply run ulimit -n 2048 If you want to increase it by default, edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add * hard nofile 2048 * soft nofile 2048 Continue reading Increase maximum limit of open files per user
mod rewrite should be enabled on apache. Add the following to your apache config file. ######################################### #### XXX: BEGIN EDIT FOR MOD_REWRITE #### #### This is intended to force HTTPS #### #### for all inbound HTTP requests #### #### # Continue reading Force SSL on apache
If you are using xterm, open ~/.xsession file $ cd $ vi .xession Append the following line: xset b off Save and close the file. If you are using bash shell, open ~/.inputrc file $ cd $ vi .inputrc Append Continue reading Linux Disable Hardware Beep Sound For Terminal