Cygwin is a UNIX-like environment for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Cygwin includes a real UNIX shell, a Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) emulation library, and thousands of UNIX utilities ported to Windows. Learn how to drop to Cygwin and use its UNIX-like command line to manipulate the system.

This article series introduces an automatic deployment toolkit, which helps infrastructure architects install and configure deployment nodes with a list of software installed and configured automatically. It also helps developers refresh builds in their daily tests and integration life cycle. In this article, Part 3 in the series, build automatic installation and configuration scripts on DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and Content Manager.

Discover the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System, an automated content indexing and multimodal search system for digital image and video collections. This system addresses the problem of indexing, classifying, and searching large volumes of images and videos.

If you're serious about music or DVDs, at some point you cross the threshold of having more than you can keep track of easily. The box full of index cards has served its purpose; it's time to move on to storing information about your CDs and DVDs in a database.

This might seem like more of a pain than you can stand. What's the point of doing a database when you can just type it all into a spreadsheet, for instance? Well, a spreadsheet is a good start but with a database you get a lot more features, including easily printing custom labels for all those legal backups you’ve made. You could also print out a record of all your movies or music, if you keep notes on them such as summaries, who you’ve loaned them to, and anything else you track.

Many new admin or Linux users get frustrated when their remote Linux box is not accessible dues to network connectivity.

In this article I will try to provide tools and information about how to diagnose network configurations. You can try these tips/tools to diagnose an issue of Linux network connectivity to remote or local servers.