This is a short but potentially extremely handy guide to ghosting one Linux box to another (or simply making a full backup of a desktop/server). Credit goes to ‘topdog’ for this. You might have a small office where you customise one desktop just how you like it and need to roll this out to N [...]

RPM and DEB packages are both containers for other files. An RPM is some sort of cpio archive. On the other hand, a DEB file is a pure ar archive. So, it should be possible to unpack their contents using standard archiving tools, regardless of your distribution’s package format. Under normal conditions, you should use [...]

We need data recovery tools on daily basis. Once we lose very sensitive data, we get desperate to retrieve them at any cost. Data recovery is very delicate job. The key is that once you lose your data in a particular hard drive, please, do not copy or install anything on it. Leave the drive [...]

Wget is a super-useful utility to download pages and automate all types of web related tasks. It works for HTTP as well as FTP URL’s. Here is a brief tutorial on how to use wget through proxy server.

How To Disable IPv6 in Red Hat Linux Since it may be a while before I’m ready to use the IPv6 on my systems, I’ve been disabling IPv6 on most servers so far. And since there’s a particularly elegant way of doing this in Red Hat Linux, I think it’s worth sharing.