There are times when you will be forced to start, stop or restart your Apache web server, be it on your VPS or on your localhost. And like every other linux distribution, Ubuntu also comes with a shell script that lets you to do this.
All you need to do is to login as a root or make use of sudo. Open the terminal or login to your VPS and perform these commands:
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With more and more censorship clouding the Internet, users are finding it difficult to remain anonymous and away from the prying eyes of governments, ISPs, attackers and potential threats. Anyone from citizens of countries with heavy censorship right up to the people who don’t wish to be found (for illegal reasons as well) can now use the Tor network to be anonymous. Many journalists, blogs, websites, NGOs are using this network as a safeguard against tracking. Even the military uses the tor network for various activities including communication with field agents and intelligence gathering.
Canon is one of the major contender in Indian DSLR market with toe-to-toe competition with it’s rival Nikon. Usually, canon DSLRs are quite expensive than others simply because they bundle more features and capabilities.
Ever since EOS 60D stepped into market, there was slight reduction in mid-range models like 500D and 550D. Canon 550D in particular was Rs. 45,000 around two months ago and Rs. 41,000 a week ago. But this week it took a free fall and the price is slashed by five thousand bucks. So now, Canon EOS 550D with 18-55mm IS kit lens is priced at Rs. 36050 on flipkart and was recently listed at similar price range on jjmehta.
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Finally HTC Incredible is now available in India and can be pre-ordered at Rs. 26999. The phone was officially announced by HTC at the Mobile World Congress last month.
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Recently, many users reported to have issues viewing their wordpress stats. Even I was one among those to face the similar issue. The error message was something like this: “Your WordPress.com account, [username] is not authorized to view the stats of this blog.”
Later I tried asking my friends to see if they face the same issue, then I found that while few have the issue, few doesn’t. So again, I found the solution when I searched for “wordpress stats” on Twitter. Even there many people were having the same problem. People even started blaming wordpress for the same reason. But after couple of minutes, someone tweeted for a possible solution. And the solution is to use the wordpress’s new plugin that literally replaces the WP Stats.
Ever since Samsung launched its Galaxy S mobile phone in India, it was sold like hotcakes and was a major hit among the geeks in the nation. While resellers and distributors cashed-in, Samsung ran out of stock and was temporarily unavailable for sale. Incredibly, Galaxy S price did not fall to an considerable extent. We just found ~1k of fall. And for our surprise, the resale price was just few thousand rupees short off the market price.
But now, Samsung has resumed the sales of Galaxy S here in India and is available on flipkart at Rs. 24999, which is ~4k less than what it was being sold earlier. The specs remain same.
Also, Samsung also released a new variant of Galaxy S with LCD display instead of the Super AMOLED which you see on Galaxy S. This new variant has been named as Galaxy S LCD or Galaxy SL. Apart for display, it also lacks in terms of performance due to comparatively slower GPU.
Finally after quite a long run, Microsoft’s Zune has hit a roadblock. Microsoft is now planning not to release any further versions of their Zune devices. They are now rather considering on development of Zune software for smartphones.
Zune was initially launched back in 2006 and it had not much of failures till now. One thing that hit this breed of devices is that windows-only requirement limitation which is now unjustified since many other devices offer multi-platform support.
Nevertheless, Microsoft has committed to continue their support to existing Zune devices in North America since the device was quite a hit in this part of the world than rest.
Say hello to the new Unity user interface. In short, Unity is a lightweight desktop environment which is used in Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 as the default shell instead of Gnome shell.
Unity is developed to make day-to-day work easier on Netbooks. Since netbooks have small screens with relatively smaller resolutions, this interface is tailored to fit your applications, windows and other instances with easy access. You get to experience it’s level of user-friendliness as you start using it on your netbook. On a regular desktop or a laptop with large screen and higher resolutions, you don’t feel much of a difference but you can still install this nifty interface to either try it out or use it on regular basis for fun or for curiosity.
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Wget is a great tool to download files using Linux. There are certain… errr… occasions (Yeah, that’s it. You are right) when people want to download entire directories from websites and they are too lazy to go into each directory and download separate files. Fear not my friends, wget is here. You can use wget to download directories from websites (provided that they allow such downloading).
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The major problem new Linux users face is ‘how do I install XYZ.exe here?’, ‘Why can’t I run exe files?’. The question is phrased in many different ways, but the essence is always the same – how to install Windows applications on Linux machines? First, Linux machines do not have a fixed extension for any executable file. We have permissions. Each file has 3 permissions – read, write and execute. All files marked as executable files can be executed provided they have a certain logical structure.
