Update (2026): This guide has been updated with modern Linux CLI tools, performance optimizations, and common terminal patterns for searching multiple strings seamlessly. Searching for multiple strings inside text files or terminal streams is an absolute staple of system administration, DevOps, and backend software engineering. While traditional Linux systems offer classic tools like grep, modern […]
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Image via CrunchBase Facebook might be a fun social networking site to meet new friends and interact with them but thanks to the unimaginable number of applications available on Facebook it makes it a hard task to keep tab of all the apps you have authorized. A lot of these apps have access to information […]
Image by .::E1ement2048::. via Flickr JDownloader is a free java-based program that completely automates the process of downloading files from popular file sharing sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload ect… The problem with most file sharing sites is that the free accounts have a limit on the amount to data you can download and additionally it requires […]
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Best DNS, Got Even Better…
A while back on this site we had mentioned about a DNS benchmarking tool called Namebench.  The Google Code project has been having some major updates since then and now lookes more jazzier and generates some lovely graphs after analysing your connection for you. The tool can be downloaded here: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ Screenshots: