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"lftp to accelerate ftp / http download speed under Linux and UNIX by Vivek Gite · 4 comments lftp is a file transfer program that allows sophisticated ftp, http and other connections to other hosts. If site is specified then lftp will connect to that site otherwise a connection has to be established with the open command. This is an essential tool for all a Linux admin. I've already written about Linux ultra fast command line download accelerator such as Axel and prozilla. lftp is another tool for same job with more features. "

Linux is an operating system (OS), like Windows. Think of there being two general types of software: operating system software and "other" software. The "other" software consists of several types of software programs, including:...

Cyber Futuristics is an Offshore Software Development Company based in India provide Microsoft Dot NET Application Development Outsourcing & other Iphone application development, Dot NET Software Development, Google phone experts, PHP software application development, Custom application development outsourcing and all other IT based services. Developed by Microsoft, ASP Dot NET stands for Active Server Pages Dot NET and it needs no formal introduction. Many applications for online businesses are widely built using this seamless Technology. Our dedicated ASP Dot NET developers have experience in #C, Dot NET framework, Microsoft Structured Query Language Server language, Hyper Text Markup Language, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets along with XML, XSL and XSLT.

Live Action Video Tutorial on how-to use Linux Multimedia Studio ( also known as LMMS) and a MIDI to USB cable with a MIDI Electronic Musical Keyboard. I show how to use the plugins like ZynAddSubFX and the other instruments synthesizers. Demonstration made with Linux Mint 9 but is also for Ubuntu...

Fedora spins are alternate versions of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application sets and other customizations.

If you feel that your Att U-verse or other ISP is painfully slow: manually change your DNS settings. Go to /etc/resolv.conf or make '/etc/resolv.conf.head' file, which will apply any changes to the top of the resolv.conf file. (a tail file is also possible).

"Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from cameras. It is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion."

NFS ( Network File System ) is used to share a directory with other clients over a network. It is very useful when it is implemented for accessing shared home folders

Sources List Generator for Debian. It features the official Debian repositories as well as other 3rd party repos.

"12 More of the Best Free Linux Books Many computer users have an insatiable appetite to deepen their understanding of computer operating systems and computer software. Linux users are no different in that respect. At the same time as developing a huge range of open source software, the Linux community fortunately has also written a vast range of documentation in the form of books, guides, tutorials, HOWTOs, man pages, and other help to aid the learning process. Some of this documentation is intended specifically for a newcomer to Linux, or those that are seeking to move away from a proprietary world and embrace freedom. There are literally thousands of Linux books which are available to purchase from any good (online) book shop. However, the focus of this article is to highlight champion Linux books which make an invaluable contribution to learning about Linux, and which are also available to download without charge. We have tried to select a fairly diverse selection of books in this article so that there should be something of interest here for any type of user whatever their level of computing knowledge. This article should be read in conjunction with our previous article on free Linux books, entitled 20 of the Best Free Linux Books."

Linux screen command tutorial ggarron | April 30, 2010 - 3 weeks 5 days  in Linux command line Linux tips I have face this lots of times, I am connected to my server using ssh, then I start a download, a log processing or a bittorrent download. I realize that task is going to take a lot of time. What to do?, well usually one have leave the ssh session open, and the home computer on. What if the ssh session just drops? all work is done, and there is the need to start all over again. I have used nohup command to execute commands after exit from the shell prompt. But there are other options, one of them is screen.

Welcome to the MultiGet Home page! MultiGet is an easy-to-use GUI file downloader for Windows/Linux/BSDs/MacOs.  It's programmed in C++ and has a GUI based on wxWidgets. It supports HTTP/FTP protocols which covers the requirements of most users. It supports multi-task with multi-thread on multi-server. It supports resuming downloads if the Web server supports it, and if you like, you can reconfig the thread number without stopping the current task. It's also support SOCKS 4,4a,5 proxy, ftp proxy, http proxy. In v0.8.0, a new feature was introduced, that is so called P2SP, or in other words , get file from multiple servers, and combine the data from different site into one file. This makes downloads complete much faster. MultiGet also supports switching language dynamically, you can choose Chinese or English interface.  Generally it will automatic choose a proper language for you. At this time(version 1.1.1), MultiGet can run on Windows 2000/XP, almost all Linux desktops, MacOs, BSDs. It can only depends on GTK+ runtime environment in Linux if statically linked with wxWidgets. It was tested on many system such as : Windows 2000, ubuntu ,kubuntu, xubuntu, fc5, opensuse10.4, mandriva 2007, MEPIS 6.0, PCLinuxOS, CentOS4.4, Puppy2.0, Xandros, edubuntu, RedFlag workstation 5, MagicLinux, dubuntu, archlinux, Hiweed, FreeBSD, MacOS etc.

"Ksplice: Upgrade / Patch Your Linux Kernel Without Reboots by Vivek Gite · 5 comments Generally, all Linux distributions needs a scheduled reboot once to stay up to date with important kernel security updates. RHN (or other distro vendors) provides Linux kernel security updates. You can apply kernel updates using yum command or apt-get command line options. After each upgrade you need to reboot the server. Ksplice service allows you to skip reboot step and apply hotfixes to kernel without rebooting the server. In this post I will cover a quick installation of Ksplice for RHEL 5.x and try to find out if service is worth every penny."

A stable, read/write NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems.

Fascinating discussion over at Stack Overflow. Elucidates some of the subtle differences between dd and cat, and when and why you might want to use one over the other.

Pinguy OS an out-of-the-box working operating system for everyone, not just geeks This OS is for people that have never used Linux before or for people that just want an out-of-the-box working OS without doing all the tweaks and enhancements that everyone seems to do when installing a fresh copy of Ubuntu or other Linux based Distro's.

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility -- all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it's Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.

Komodo Edit is a free, open source editor from dynamic language experts. It's absolutely fantastic to work with. It does everything a good editor should do, but it also adds a bunch of other little awesome things." -Dan Hulton, www.danhulton.com * All the languages: Dynamic language expertise for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML, and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django. * All the platforms: Windows? Mac? Linux? Yes! Yes! Yes! * Award-wining tools: Everything you'd expect from an editor based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, like autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, Emacs key bindings, and more. * Firefox-style extensibility: Go ahead, hack away! Or download some of the cool extensions from member of the Komodo community.