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GNOME HotSSH GNOME recently released its advanced version of its local terminal Windows it also comes with many of the features like tags, SFTP, Quick connector etc and the main features like. * Fast search-based interface for new connections * Also display and search of local (Avahi) SSH servers * Tabbed display with automatic session saving (Firefox style) * Status bar with information like latency to server and output of remote uptime * Close integration with OpenSSH features like connection sharing (near-instant new tabs) * NetworkManager integration to easily reconnect after a network change, great for laptops Installing HotSSH Before you start the….

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Excerpt: Dmidecode is an excellent tool useful for administrators to list all the hardware information described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. The information typically list the following information like system manufacturer model name serial number BIOS version CPU sockets expansion slots (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) memory module slots List of I/O ports (e.g. serial, parallel, USB) Dmidecode also comes with three additional tools : biosdecode ownership ownership Installing Dmidecode Dmidecode rpm can be download from here To install it from source # cd /usr/src # wget http://ftp.igh.cnrs.fr/pub/nongnu/dmidecode/dmidecode-2.9.tar.gz # tar zxvf dmidecode-2.9.tar.gz # cd dmidecode # make && make install # dmidecode -h (to list the help menu) Usage: dmidecode [OPTIONS] Options are: -d, –dev-mem FILE Read….

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Excerpt: Is a command line tool written by Mario Viara which works very similar to the rsync tool but with better options than rsync. This small tool really helps the administrator to synchronize both the directories with exact data copy on both dirs. This tool uses the source and destination directory as arguments and recursively ensures that the two directories are identical. It can be used to create incremental copies of large chunks of data. For example, if your file server’s contents are in the directory /datafiles, you can make a copy in a directory called /backup with the command “dirsync /datafiles /backup”;….