Tuesday, November 26, 2013

How to screen capture in Sony Xperia U with ICS


To take screenshot in Xperia U, press Power button and Volume down button simultaneously till it captures with a sound. The image will be stored in /mnt/sdcard/Pictures/Screenshots.

Friday, November 22, 2013

Automatic back up of Cisco routers - Kron scheduler

If your are a network engineer, it is a monthly or weekly job to take back up of the router configurations . If it is a small network with a few routers or switches, it is easy to manage. But if it is a large network , It is a hectic job. So I rely on Cisco Kron command.

Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird for Microsoft Exchange mail

Microsoft Exchange is the widely used mail solution in buisiness world. Microsoft Outlook is the email client used with this . But if we have to configure mail in our Linux machine, we have to go for some alternative email clients . Mozilla Thunderbird is a good alternative for Outlook. It is also pre-installed in many distros (like Ubuntu 13.10 )To configure Mozilla Thunderbird for Exchange mail , we can use an addon - ExQuilla. This addon is able to connect to Exchange 2007, 2010 and latest 2013 also.