Buttar

Azhar Ali Buttar has 20 years of experience working in different domains within IT industry. From network protocols to server hardening, he knows about multiple areas and has been working side by side with MNCs to provide cost-effective security and infrastructure solutions. Azhar’s expertise lies in off-site and hybrid infrastructure deployment using multiple platforms which includes, but not limited to, Azure, AWS, Google and Private Clouds. He has also been leading several infrastructure and security teams to deploy and perform security optimization in multiple projects, and now leads Nocastra with his decision-making and client-oriented skills.

How to get complete machine information in LINUX Command Line

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Linux is great and command line is marvelous, you can get any information you like to know about your system just in milliseconds. You just need to remember a command and issue it on command line. Few very basic yet powerful commands are share as under to get complete information about your LINUX operating system, hardware, machine name and many more;

$ cat /proc/version

The above command Will give you a full string of information

uname -m

The above command Will give you the machine number ( like i686 )

uname -r

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Fedora 13 has been released

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Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software.I started using this since fedora 2 was in market and I was very much fan of this operating system. sophisticated, charming, good looking and many more features not like every LINUX distribution, The front end is really great. Fedora … Read more

how to check full hard drive size in LINUX Command line

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Commands are really great in LINUX environment and specially in command line, they really rocks everything. You can get any information about your system you like. I was wondering and looking for a command that can give me the total hard drive size in LINUX. I can use a tool available on the internet but … Read more

how to stop windows restart after installation of automatic updates

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Installation of automatic updates is not bad for any computer but the poor thing in windows is that it restart the system after installation of automatic updates that really sucks and create annoying behavior sometimes. I hate this when your system pop up again and again and try to push you for a system reboot … Read more

Ultimate Way To Launch Program With Run Manager

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I was looking for this tool for a long time to save a lot of time from my precious working hours. Going to start menu and then search for your interested application waste a lot of time and if you are a network person and have to open more than 100, 200 or 300 applications can waste more than 40 valuable minutes. I think this tool can make a difference and save enough time to roam around and find something more valuable on internet by saving time from launching application manually. Its a very simple and easy to use tool where you just have to create a shortcut for any application and enter it in the run menu to execute.

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Switch multiple network settings automatically

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If you have multiple network settings and don’t like to change again and again because it takes time to change the whole network setting then you are at a right place. What do you mean by multiple network settings? simple answer, you work at home, you got network settings and you also work with your … Read more

Top 10 Handy LINUX Commands

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Handy commands will always help you to do your daily tasks on a LINUX system or server. You just need to remember and use them on time and you will perfectly get best results. Few Commands are given as under which can save your lot of time.

1. pgrep

pgrep will give you the currently running processes and lists the process IDs which matches the selection criteria.

pgrep ssh

2. Execute The Last Executed Command

If you like to reissue a command again you need to type the whole path and command again to get the results, you can just enter the under given command;

!!

3. Execute The Last Command Starting With some letter

If you want to execute a command a command from history starting with the letter S you can use the following command: This will execute the last command used on the command line that started with s.

!s

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