VLC Player – Is it better than Windows Media Player?

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What is a DNS Cache?

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Linux Following Windows Footsteps

Delete folders without asking in Linux – rm

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Clear DNS Cache in Linux

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2038 bug in UNIX

Yesterday, I was discussing with a friend about the 2038 bug in UNIX systems .. I thought why not share it with my valuable readers.

So what is 2038 bug? It is a time wrap bug .. if the time of UNIX machine reaches a certain value, it will restart itself to its initial value. And that certain value will occur in 2038. UNIX uses 31 bits for its time function and the remaining one bit is use as its sign.This means that when the second count reaches 2147483647, it will wrap to -2147483648 and the date will reset to 1901.

The precise date of this occurrence is

Change Boot Mode in Linux

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Backup your files first

A quick tip .. I always make a copy of my configuration files in Linux whenever I make changes. It only takes typing a line or two on the command line. I use the following copy command to backup files.

[root@pc ~]# cp /etc/file.conf /etc/file.conf.backup

This will make file.conf.backup with the same contents as file.conf. And whenever you want to restore the original file .. use the following command:

[root@pc ~]# cp /etc/file.conf .backup /etc/file.conf

This will save you from undesirable conditions if you mess up with some configuration.

Increasing the attachment size limit in Zimbra

While working with Zimbra, I figured out today that I needed to increase the attachment size limit of the message to send larger messages. The default attachment size limit is 10MB. Even if the attachment is a little less than 10MB, it won’t send quoting the same error that the maximum message size is crossing the limits. This is because of the fact that Zimbra will encode the message into base-64 encoding. With base64-encoding, the message size becomes larger than 10MB. So here is the command

Opening Linux folders in the same window

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