DNS How-To for Google Apps Users | Google Apps of course is awesome email, docs, calender and such for organizations or individuals. To further take advantage of Google Apps for your organization, it is possible to input additional DNS records. In doing this, mail.yourdomain.com goes to your google apps mail, as well as others: calendar.yourdomain.com – your google apps calendar docs.yourdomain.com
Batch Rename Files with rename
Batch Rename Files with rename | How can I batch rename files in Linux? There are tons of how-tos and guides on using sed, mv, and other commands to batch rename files. However, a very powerful tool available in Debian and Ubuntu Linux is simply rename. The rename command can be used to mass / bulk rename files, file extensions, rename
Combine PDFs in Linux
Combine PDFs in Linux | Use ghostscript to easily combine multiple PDFs into one PDF document from the command line. First make sure you have ghostscript installed: sudo apt-get install ghostscript Here is the magic command. Here place the order of existing PDFs in the order you wish them to appear in the combined document. gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
Rotate MySQL Backups With Logrotate
Rotate MySQL Backups With Logrotate | logrotate can be used to rotate and auto-purge any file, including mysql backups. This very server (scottlinux.com) backs up a mysql dump daily, keeping the previous 8 with this method. I’ll show you how: 1. Create the following file, editing as desired. This example backs up all mysql databases in one dump. Of course you
intoDNS.com – Check Your DNS
intoDNS.com – Check Your DNS | intoDNS is a slick web based DNS check. Check it out: http://www.intodns.com
Straighten Crooked Photos – GIMP
Straighten Crooked Photos – GIMP | Use gimp to easily straighten crooked photos! Here is my random photo which is slightly crooked to the left. First choose Tools > Transform Tools > Rotate Then you can simply adjust the angle to straighten your photo as desired. If needed, you can also adjust the center pivot point. I turned on the grid
shellinabox With Apache Authentication Over HTTPS 443
shellinabox With Apache Authentication Over HTTPS 443 | shellinabox is an amazing web-based SSH client. It is very handy if you are not on a machine with a good terminal app, are filtered to not having port 22 available, or other uses such as a good web based shell to use while on the ChromeOS notebook. This guide shows how to setup and
Annotate PDF Documents in OS X
Annotate PDF Documents in OS X | How can I edit a PDF document on OS X? FormulatePro is an excellent free and open source app for OS X that lets you annotate, edit, insert graphics, fill out forms, and otherwise manipulate PDF documents. For an example, here is a PDF that comes from OS X. I’ll open it with FormulatePro to
Strip or Remove HTML Tags
Strip or Remove HTML Tags | Here is how to easily strip or remove html tags from a file using sed. (View full post for proper syntax!) sed -e ‘s/]*>//g’ myfile.txt > myfilenew.txt This will strip tags from any sort of text file (html, csv, txt).
SysRq Key to the Rescue!
SysRq Key to the Rescue! | That odd SysRq key (short for System Request) on your keyboard is actually very useful in Linux. Most laptops today have removed that key, but if you have a desktop or server with this available, keep this cheat sheet handy: Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Press Alt+SysRq+ one of the following keys to give some life to your
