This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on CentOS 6.0. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second solution uses a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.
What is the exact difference between a ‘terminal’, a ‘shell’, a ‘tty’ and a ‘console’?
A terminal is at the end of an electric wire, a shell is the home of a turtle, tty is a strange abbreviation and a console is a kind of cabinet.
Well, etymologically speaking, anyway..
Ubuntu 11.10 Review. Oneiric Ocelot – Beautiful, but Deadly
Canonical’s reshaping of Ubuntu is complete, but does 11.10 live up to the hype? Russell Barnes takes a look at the 15th iteration, Oneiric Ocelot, probably the only distro to be loved and loathed in near equal measure…
In Linux User issue 106’s beta review, we talked about how 11.10 appeared to be working hard to make good on plans laid out in the previous release. Where 11.04 was rough around the edges, with what was clearly a work-in-progress Launcher and Dash among other things, much more elegant solutions could be found.
It’s no secret that elegance and form are all very important factors for Canonical’s design team, but 11.04’s implementation smacked so heavily of form over function (a complaint arguably true of both ‘next-generation’ desktop experiences including GNOME Shell and Canonical’s Unity) that a positive reception would have been hard to wish for.
[I will never move to this version of Ubuntu with its hideous Unity interface. Worse, they have removed Gnome Classic in this version - although one can still install it from the repository. No to this version.]
Simple Security by Evaluating Open Ports
A simple but effective procedure for evaluating security on your computer is to check what sites it’s connecting to, or what sites are connecting to it. Most critical malware nowadays turn computers into zombies for botnets — typically zombified hosts will connect to a central server using IRC. Or it could be that you’re inadvertently running a program that’s listening for Internet requests. In any case, it’s good to check these connections.
In TCP/IP, connections happen by way of ports. A port is a number that uniquely identifies a connection. Some ports are well-known and usually identified with a service, e.g. port 80 for HTTP requests.
Weather (Delhi, India)
Delhi, IndiaFebruary 22, 2012, 10:53 pm
Dreary (overcast)20°Creal feel: 20°Ccurrent pressure: 1010 mbhumidity: 72%wind speed: 4 km/h ENEwind gusts: 4 km/hsunrise: 6:24sunset: 17:46More forecast...Weather (Chennai, India)
Chennai, IndiaFebruary 22, 2012, 10:53 pm
Partly cloudy25°Creal feel: 30°Ccurrent pressure: 1010 mbhumidity: 84%wind speed: 0 km/h Nwind gusts: 0 km/hsunrise: 5:59sunset: 17:46
