Found 105 Articles for Information Technology

Users who every day and every time busy in sending and sharing confidential and important stuffs, but with sending and sharing stuffs they are really worried of their safety and security. For them, Dropbox is a best place to share and send files publicly safely and securely, you just have to keep your documents, photos and videos inside Dropbox and get them from your devices (computer, phone, or tablets). Not only you can keep things inside it, you can edit too.Using Dropbox, you can share your photos, videos, and docs with your friends, business team, and organizations. Due to its ... Read More

Badblocks is a Linux utility to assess unhealthy sectors on a disk power. It creates a list of those sectors which can be used with other applications like mkfs, so that they aren’t used at some point and for that reason does not corrupt the data. This article explains about – how to find out bad Sectors ie. bad Blocks on your Linux Hard Disk.To get the information about Block Devices on your machine, use the following command –$ lsblkChecking Bad SectorsThere are so many sophisticated methods which are available to find bad blocks. The most used method is as ... Read More

Are you using Ubuntu Server or Ubuntu system? then you should also be aware that, high profile banks are likely to be targeted by criminals looking for Server information/Files. Should you really worry?. maybe! This article provides you awareness on – Installing Security Patches for updating automatically on Ubuntu.Use the following command to install security patches automatically on Ubuntu$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgradesWhile installing packages, it will ask permission from user as shown below –Now click on Ok by pressing enter key. Then, it will show the following screen as shown below-Now click on OK by pressing the enter key. The ... Read More

Today people spend more time in the world of the internet than in the real world. For instance, a teenage tech crazy youngster is on a holiday, the first thing for him would be to update the status on all his social media accounts like Facebook and others. People are turning impulsive as they wish to share everything with the whole world as and when some news breaks. Be it, some happy moments or some disturbing news. In some ways, we are all now slowly addicted to the net world.Most of us spend time on Facebook for getting the news. ... Read More

There are many choices on hand to secure your data. However, GPG provides the additional benefit to encrypting your data on a priority basis and transfers them securely over the internet. This article explains about – How to Encrypt and Decrypt a file using GPG command on Linux.To get more information about GPG, use the following command –$ gpg -hThe sample output should be like this –gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.20 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO ... Read More

With so many databases in the market, the mind wars have begun and it is the right time to understand the difference and importance of top 3 relational databases in the market – Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle PL/SQL, and MySQL. The relational database management systems have currently become the backbone of the industry and with so many options available, it is difficult to figure out which one to choose.The relational database management systems was introduced in 1980’s. This article is focussing on exploring the history and features of three popular RDBMS in the industry: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. ... Read More

Do you frequently compress and extract files on Linux/Ubuntu? Have you heard about.tar extension? Then this article is for you to learn about compress and extract files using the tar command with examples.What is .tar?In computing, tar is an application utility for collecting many records into one archive file, most likely known as a tarball, for distribution or backup functions .Tar was at the beginning developed in the early days of Unix for the intent of backing up records to tape-based storage. It used to be later formalized as a part of the POSIX standard.To get more information about tar, ... Read More

Are you working as a system admin, then you should know these tools to manage disk space. This article explains about how to check Linux Disk Partitions and Usage in Linux.FdiskFdisk is a text based utility. By utilizing fdisk, you can create a brand new partition, delete the present partition, or exchange existing partition.To get the more information about fdisk, use the following command –$ fdiskThe sample out should be like this –Usage: fdisk [options] change partition table fdisk [options] -l [] list partition table(s) Display or manipulate a disk partition table. Options: -b, --sector-size       ... Read More

Mini-PCs have been around for more than two years in India, but still, they are not very much accepted in any part of the country. Although there are a lot more numbers in laptops, but this simply does not make the mini-PC’s powerful. One has to understand, how to use it in the right way, especially people who want a PC but are planning for a low budget one should definitely go for it.The best part is that, those little stick PCs are also called Mini-PCs, I am sure all the gamers might be acquainted with this. For example, if ... Read More

It has been 10 years since the cloud computing revolution has begun in the information and technology sector. It has completely transformed the dimension of the sector, in terms of quality of service delivery and cost of service delivery. During the initial phase of the cloud revolution, it had faced security issues and performance issues. Continuous research on these issues had made the cloud to overcome and brought trust among the clients on the service providers. We are now in the second phase of cloud revolution. As many have started migrating towards the cloud, the demand for providing quality service ... Read More