Category Archives: Linux
Using cPanel to schedule tweets
If you have a cPanel on your server you can schedule tweets using cron jobs. Anyone with a website has access to cron with cPanel, if you have DirectAdmin settings are similar. No need to use HootSuit to schedule tweets.
Scheduling programs using crontab
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Every Linux has two commands for scheduling: at and cron. Programs scheduled by command at will be executed once at a defined time. With crontab it’s possible to define a command that will be executed periodically.
To make sure you can use crontab, check if there is /etc/cron.allow file and if it exists check for your username there. If you use a Debian based Linux you don’t need to worry, you may use it by default.
Seven great Linux applications
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Phatch
How many times you needed to edit multiply photos. It could be just resize, but you needed to open every single one and edit it. There is one cool program for batch photo editing, Phatch. You can do: resizing, adding watermarks, text, shadow, rotate picture, …
Ubuntu 9.10 – clean install or upgrade
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This is the most doubted question when there is a new version of Ubuntu or any other OS. Ubuntu 9.10 is released a week ago and it brings some improvements. There is a new version of the kernel included 2.6.31.1, Ubuntu now ships Ubuntu One by default, GRUB is now in version 2 available. But there are two things that are important to us when we are deciding about clean install or upgrade.
Migration to Linux – My experience
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By migration I mean using some Linux distribution or more distributions as only installed OSes. I’m a Linux user since 2005., my first Linux was Ubuntu 5.04, but I didn’t migrated fully to Linux till September 2009. In this post I will cover some important things that you need to keep in mind about performing migration to Linux.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
