Finding if Multicast is supported

Linux - No Comments » - Posted on October, 30 at 12:09 am

One way to easily find if mulitcast is supported in a *nix system is to issue
netstat -gn
which returns the membership groups of the mulitcast addresses in the system
e.g. output
Group Memberships: IPv4
Interface Group RefCnt
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lo0 […]

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Joining all lines in a file using sed

Linux - No Comments » - Posted on October, 12 at 10:19 pm

Sed (Stream EDitor) is a very powerful stream editor to manipulate text files.
I needed an utility that would join all lines in a text file to a single line with “\n” as a separator so that I could easily cut and paste inline velocity templates into java code. Here is the final sed command !
sed […]

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Installing Internet Explorer on Linux

Linux - 1 Comment » - Posted on September, 29 at 9:52 am

The easiest way to install IE in linux is to use IEs4Linux. This is a script that would download all required installables from Microsoft and install IE on your linux system. You need have wine and cabextract preinstalled on the linux box.

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Why the Linux file system does not need defragmenting …

Linux - No Comments » - Posted on August, 19 at 9:58 am

I came across this excellant article explaining in simple ways why the linux file system does not need to be defragmented. Read On ..

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Switching to Linux

Linux - 3 Comments » - Posted on April, 6 at 11:41 pm

I wanted to switch my home desktop to linux for a long time and I finally got rid of windows and installed Fedora Core 5. The installation was very smooth and extremely impressive. The only hardware that did not get detected was my USB wireless adaptor (airlink). Wireless drivers for unix can be found at

Drivers […]

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