How to find/display your MAC Address: Unix/Linux

Linux As the root user (or user with appropriate permissions) Type “ifconfig -a” From the displayed information, find eth0 (this is the default first Ethernet adapter) Locate the number next to the HWaddr. This is your MAC address The MAC Address will be displayed in the form of 00:08:C7:1B:8C:02. Example “ifconfig -a” output: eth0 Link … Read more

Why am I getting a 500 Internal Server Error message?

Possible Cause : 1. htaccess file 2. Php Coding Time out 3. CGI Script Error 500 Internal Server Error is a generic error message, given when no more specific message is suitable. There are a number of causes for a 500 Internal Server Error to display in a web browser. Figure 1 is a sample … Read more

WinScp : Best FTP and SFTP client for windows

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between local and remote computer. It is one of the best SFTP and FTP client available in the market. Download link : http://winscp.net/eng/download.php

Avast antivirus : is this best for you?

  Microsoft have cancelled support for Windows XP and may also be seizing support for Microsoft Security Essentials, it may be time for consumers to start looking for another antivirus system such as Avast or AVG. To grasp the severity of this, let us go into some detail. Antivirus apps are worthwhile just as long … Read more

Turn on Remote Desktop in Windows 7, 8 or Vista

Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows 7, 8, or Vista, but it’s easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Windows PC from another box, it’s an essential thing to turn on. Important note: Remote desktop is only included in the Professional, Business, or Ultimate versions of Windows. … Read more

How to know website’s server specs from its url?

You can use these 3 tools http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=google.com http://builtwith.com/techcrunch.com http://whatcms.org/?s=wordpress.com Which lists all the technologies, the website is apparently using. OR You can run this command wget –save-headers google.com This will save the server header information in an index.html file, which you can open in an editor to view site’s server details. OR You can use … Read more

linux memoery space command

memory space

# df -h will show you where your free space (if any) is, on your mounted partitions. # du -sh /* will show you how much drive space each of your top-level directories are consuming, which might help identify files that don’t need to be on the root partition # fdisk -l (that’s a lower-case … Read more

Command for determining my public IP on linux PC

Finding external IP using external services The easiest way is to use an external service via a commandline browser or download tool. Since wget is available by default in Ubuntu, we can use that. To find your ip, use- wget -qO- http://ipecho.net/plain ; echo