Install Zimbra 8.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 Server

The Zimbra Collaboration Server is a mail server, collaborative web application and a web based mail server admin console in a single application. It provides LDAP, antivirus, antispam, collaboration features and a ajax webmail client. Zimbra is easy to use for administrators as well as end users due to its fast Ajax based web interface.> Prerequisites   ...

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Set Animated Wallpaper on Ubuntu Desktop

There’s a simple tool to replace your boring default wallpaper with a completely animated OpenGL wallpaper. It’s Android style live wallpaper on Ubuntu Desktop. It only contains a few wallpapers so far. While it’s under developing, it continues adding new wallpapers. To install this tool on Ubuntu: There’s a ppa repository that contains stable packages for Ubuntu...

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Enable Rotate Desktop Cute/3D Windows in Ubuntu 12.04

how to enable Compiz effects Desktop Cute, Rotate Cube, 3D windows on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. Here we go : 1. Open terminal from the dash home or press Ctrl+Alt+T, execute this command to check if your machine support compiz effects or not:   /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p You’ll get this similar output:   2. Install video card driver by launch...

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Shell Scripting Getting started with bash scripting

Introduction Most of our operating systems including Linux can support different user interfaces (UI). The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is a user-friendly desktop interface that enables users to click icons to run an application. The other type of interface is the Command Line Interface (CLI) which is purely textual and accepts commands from the user. A shell, the...

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How to install a Raspberry Pi for SMS Server

Raspbian  First we need to download raspbian, you can grab the latest version at https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ Direct url: http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest Now we need unzip the file: 2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.zip: unzip 2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.zip You will get a file named 2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.img, this file must be...

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What Version of a Package Is Installed on Ubuntu

The package management system on Ubuntu makes it extremely simple to install and remove packages, but sometimes it’s important to figure out what version of a particular package that you actually have installed. The apt-get utilities are simply a front-end to the debian dpkg utility, which actually does the real work. You can use this utility to figure out what version is installed. dpkg -s <packagename> Here’s...

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How can I check the available version of a package

apt-get You can run a simulation to see what would happen if you upgrade/install a package: apt-get -s install <package> To see all possible upgrades, run a upgrade in verbose mode and (to be safe) with simulation, press n to cancel: apt-get -V -s upgrade apt-cache The option policy can show the installed and the remote version (install candidate) of a package. apt-cache...

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Become a better programmer

Programmers nowadays should all know these 3 very important rules: Don’t use floating points for money Store date/time in “UTC” timezone Always use the “UTF8″ character set Tom Scott brilliantly explains the above 3 topics in videos that roughly last 10 minutes each. He explains them clearly, with depth and in a passionate way. They are listed below. Start the video’s...

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Tools for PHP developers in Ubuntu 14.04

To convert your Ubuntu 14.04 into a powerhouse for software development for PHP, you need to install some developer tools from the rich set of available software packages. I have made a top 10 of my favorite developer tools. 1) Install Eclipse 3.8 as a complete IDE Altough everybody I know prefers the JetBrains IDE’s, I am still a sucker for free (as in speech) software....

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