By default most unix boxes now come with dynamic IP enabled for all its networking needs. This is a very useful configuration but at times it helps to know that a system’s IP will remain the same no matter what changes occur around it. A classic example of this case can be a server.
In any case if you want to change your unix box to use static IP the following simple steps will get your task done:
Wifi routers usually specify the regulatory rules for all devices connected to their network. In rare cases a router may go rouge and specify the wrong regulatory domain, which might effect the quality of the connection and at times may make the network unreachable even if the network says that its connected.
Below are the debug messages from the command “dmesg” in one such case:
Here is a quick cheat-sheet on How To Compress files in Linux & Unix
Zip
zip archive file1 file2 file3
Compresses file1 file2 file3 into an achive with filename archive.zip
zip archive *
Compresses all files in the current directory into an achive with filename archive.zip
zip -r archive dir
Compresses the directory dir(and its subdirectories) into an achive with filename archive.zip
unzip archive.zip
Uncompresses the archive archive.zip to the current directory
unzip archive.zip -d dir
Uncompresses the archive archive.zip to the directory dir
With the start of new season of Formula One, a lot of viewers were left refreshing their pages because the live timing
refused to work for the first day of Practice. The problem had to do with the old cookies of the website from the previous year’s timing widget.
To fix the problem follow this tutorial to Remove Cookies from your browser.
Sometimes when websites are updated,they tend to change the way they manage cookies. What happens then is that there is a small possibility of certain parts of the website not functioning as the old cookies remain in the browser. In those cases the best approach is to remove the errant cookie and let the website recreate the cookies.
Here is a quick tutorial on how to do that:
Firefox:
