Which CentOS ISO should I use?

I was going to download a copy of CentOS 7 and found that there were a number of ISO's available. At first glance I could not figure out which Centos iso i should use so I did a little digging around and came up with the following answer that may be of some use to you. First off I went [more]

Android Studio: Add jar as library?

I'm trying to use the new Android Studio but i can't seem to get it working correctly. I'm using the Gson-library to serialize/deserialize JSON-objects. But the library somehow isn't included in the build. I created a new project with just a MainActivity. Copied gson-2.2.3.jar in [more]

How to install Android Studio in Ubuntu

I have to install Android Studio in Ubuntu 12.04 and I have used this link to download Android Studio. Is there any easy way to install Studio in Ubuntu ? I am familiar with Eclipse ADT. JonasCz Download the Linux SDK from the Android website. Copy the [more]

Why do people use Heroku when AWS is present? What's distinguishing about Heroku

I'm a beginner RoR programmer who's planning to deploy my app using Heroku. Word from my other advisor friends says that Heroku is really easy, good to use. The only problem is that I still have no idea what Heroku does.. I've looked at their website and in a nutshell, what Heroku [more]

Apache mod_watchdog is required

Some of you may take the lazy way of updating your linux systems by using yum-cron. yum-cron will perform auto-updates on your system when patches are made available. With some configuration, you can have this program only send you and email alert. For those of you running an apache [more]

Setting up FTP on Amazon Cloud Server

I am trying to set up FTP on Amazon Cloud Server, but without luck... I search over net and there is no concrete steps how to do it... Since there is no steps on web, can someone help me finding it or write it here? I usually use dedicated server or shared hosting, but I am not [more]

Why does a yum package update replaces my yum-cron config files?

Usually, when applying package updates via yum update, rpm is 'intelligent' enough to respect my changes to configuration files under /etc. (It basically looks at the mtime, compares it and depending on the outcome replaces the file with the new version, or just puts the new version [more]

How to can i log all commands typed in a Bash shell?

Our small company runs an Ubuntu Server 11.10, to which a couple of people have SSH access. The actual terminals are sometimes used, too. How can we locally log all Bash commands run, along with user and time stamp? We can assume that no-one is nefarious and actively trying to avoid [more]

VMware Raw Device Mapping for local storage

Here is an excellent write up on mapping a RAW device to a VM within ESX/Vsphere. What I was trying to do was map a local drive that had NTFS partitions on it to a Windows 8 VM. Going thru the "Edit Settings" menu for the VM showed "RAW Device Mappings" grayed out on the Add Hardisk [more]

Why use Chef/Puppet over shell scripts?

New to Puppet and Chef tools. Seems like the job that they are doing can be done with shell scripting. Maybe it was done in shell scripts until these came along. I would agree they are more readable. But, are there any other advantages over shell scripts besides just being [more]

Puppet agent can't find server

I'm new to puppet, but picking it up quickly. Today, I'm running into an issue when trying to run the following: It would appear the agent doesn't know what server to connect to. I could just specify --server on the command line, but that will be of no use to me when this runs as [more]

Mac OS X Terminal Colors

I'm new to Mac having just got one after working with Ubuntu Linux for some time. Among the many things I'm trying to figure out is absence of colors in my the terminal window - like the ones that are shown (on linux) when you run 'ls -la' or 'git status'... I just can't figure out how [more]

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Which CentOS ISO should I use?

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I was going to download a copy of CentOS 7 and found that there were a number of ISO’s available. At first glance I could not figure out which Centos iso i should use so I did a little digging around and came up with the following answer that may be of some use to […]
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Android Studio: Add jar as library?

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I’m trying to use the new Android Studio but i can’t seem to get it working correctly. I’m using the Gson-library to serialize/deserialize JSON-objects. But the library somehow isn’t included in the build. I created a new project with just a MainActivity. Copied gson-2.2.3.jar in the /libs folder and added it as a library (right […]
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How to install Android Studio in Ubuntu

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I have to install Android Studio in Ubuntu 12.04 and I have used this link to download Android Studio. Is there any easy way to install Studio in Ubuntu ? I am familiar with Eclipse ADT. JonasCz Download the Linux SDK from the Android website. Copy the folder to whereever you want to extract the […]
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Why do people use Heroku when AWS is present? What’s distinguishing about Heroku

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I’m a beginner RoR programmer who’s planning to deploy my app using Heroku. Word from my other advisor friends says that Heroku is really easy, good to use. The only problem is that I still have no idea what Heroku does.. I’ve looked at their website and in a nutshell, what Heroku does is help […]
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Apache mod_watchdog is required

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Some of you may take the lazy way of updating your linux systems by using yum-cron. yum-cron will perform auto-updates on your system when patches are made available. With some configuration, you can have this program only send you and email alert. For those of you running an apache http server and have auto-updates configured. you probable […]
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Setting up FTP on Amazon Cloud Server

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I am trying to set up FTP on Amazon Cloud Server, but without luck… I search over net and there is no concrete steps how to do it… Since there is no steps on web, can someone help me finding it or write it here? I usually use dedicated server or shared hosting, but I […]
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Why does a yum package update replaces my yum-cron config files?

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Usually, when applying package updates via yum update, rpm is ‘intelligent’ enough to respect my changes to configuration files under /etc. (It basically looks at the mtime, compares it and depending on the outcome replaces the file with the new version, or just puts the new version beside it.) But with one of the last […]
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How to can i log all commands typed in a Bash shell?

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Our small company runs an Ubuntu Server 11.10, to which a couple of people have SSH access. The actual terminals are sometimes used, too. How can we locally log all Bash commands run, along with user and time stamp? We can assume that no-one is nefarious and actively trying to avoid the logging, but we’d […]
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VMware Raw Device Mapping for local storage

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Here is an excellent write up on mapping a RAW device to a VM within ESX/Vsphere. What I was trying to do was map a local drive that had NTFS partitions on it to a Windows 8 VM. Going thru the “Edit Settings” menu for the VM showed “RAW Device Mappings” grayed out on the […]
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Why use Chef/Puppet over shell scripts?

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New to Puppet and Chef tools. Seems like the job that they are doing can be done with shell scripting. Maybe it was done in shell scripts until these came along. I would agree they are more readable. But, are there any other advantages over shell scripts besides just being readable? Totor A domain-specific language […]