Introduction Removing blank rows from an excel sheet should be easy. Instead of digging into the documentation or watching a long video tutorial, just take a look at the following screenshots. Note that this tutorial was prepared using on Mac. For Windows, the procedure should be fairly similar… Select your data range From the Edit
Introduction Working from the command line or the terminal can not be avoided if we want to streamline tasks or if we want to implement any sort of automation. In automation, we may need to open a browser to a specific URL or retrieve data from an end point. Opening a browser from the terminal
Introduction This is a commonly asked question among students. I think part of the confusion comes from mixing terms from academia specially operating systems courses with software industry terms such as cloud computing and big data. Network operating systems and distributed operating systems are fundamentally different concepts. Let us see what the difference is. Network
Introduction A YouTube video can be either public (anyone can watch), private (only the owner can watch) or unlisted (anyone with a link can watch). I like the third option because I can share the links with whoever I want and at the same time my videos do not show up in search results. If
Winexe can be used to invoke remote Windows commands from Unix based system like Linux. Follow the steps below to build and install Winexe… installation Steps Download winexe from sourceforge Copy source code to the linux machine for example: scp winexe-1.00.tar.gz user@linuxhost:/path/to/winexe ssh to the linux machine and extract the package you just uploaded in
Problem I have an application on Windows running as a daemon. I want this app to keep running all the time. If the application is closed by mistake or crashes for some reason then I need a way to automatically restart the application and send a notification about the event. Solution I prefer simple tools
Problem We have a cluster of servers all running the same software. Upgrading a node is as simple as extracting a zip file and overwriting the existing installation. This sounds a simple task but at some point the number of nodes might become large enough to make the upgrade a tedious process. Upgrading our cluster
The rsync command can be used to sync files between Unix machines or between a Unix machine and Mac computer. Here is the syntax What if you want to copy files from a Unix machine to a local Windows machine. Here is how: Install http://sourceforge.net/projects/grsync-win on the windows Machine then launch it and fill as
I wanted to monitor the log files of 8 server nodes in a cluster installation. I used notepad at the beginning and it was a painful experience. I tried nodepad++ and the tail command for windows but it was not that better. I did a quick research and found an amazing free and easy to
I wanted a proxy server installation with basic authentication. Squid proxy server is a well known open source proxy server but it is mainly for Unix. If you want to try Squid for Windows follow the steps below: Downlaod squid for windows: http://squid.acmeconsulting.it/download/squid-3.0.STABLE23-BZR-bin.zip Extract to C:\\squid Go to c:\\squid\\etc Rename squid.conf.default to squid.conf Rename mime.conf.default
