Ceci n'est pas une pipe

Working in UNIX / Linux tool essential to view the status process is the `top`. Launched from the command line, top produces an output divided into two basic areas: in head shows general information on the system, while all along the area below lists the processes that are consuming more CPU. Read More »

The most popular Unix systems (Linux / Mac / BSD) are now widely used in graphics mode. However, there are cases where the directions terminal are much more effective and quick, because let you interact with low-level computer. A detailed list of commands for every eventuality, divided into categories, can be found at this address: http://www.linuxguide.it/linux_commands_line_en.htm.

To make the touch of a recursive directory not get the usual errors (file names that contain spaces or other abnormal characters) is sufficient to run the command:

find . -print0 | xargs -0 touch

Happens to all that having a backup from one server to another. Imagine that it wants to do every day at a certain time the complete copy of all files contained in a directory from a server (called A) to another (called B). A simple solution is to program the remote synchronization by using the `` rsync. The program will be run from the server B, so that the server A passively suffer the backup - in the form of levy of data - without serious consequences. Read More »

Carryover entirely a post published on the website http://www.levysoft.it on a bug in the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for WordPress 2.x because this bug made it unusable - until a few minutes ago - the search functions also on this blog. The original source is at this address. Read More »

How to make your site attract visitors through the Google Image Search? Google Image Search and Google Image Search is the same service, the first in English, the second in Italian: allow the search for images based on keywords. Read More »

Is still in circulation software that relies on backup of your data files to devices DAT (Digital Audio Tape). Normally, this kind of software includes all the tools necessary to make and restore backups, but it happens sometimes they need to perform the same operations working directly on data files, without - in other words - necessarily pass through the software that created them. Read More »