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On the new Microsoft Windows Vista or on Windows XP, it automatically ads a shadow to the text under the icons on the desktop.  On some backgrounds, this can help to make the text more readible.  However, on others it can have just the opposite effect.

To enable or disable this feature go to the System Properites window (a shortcut to that window is to hold down the Windows key - the one with the flag) and hit the Pause/break key).  In XP click the Advanced tab and on Vista click on the left side of the window over the “Advanced system settings” option.

Click the “settings” option and under visual effects.  Then set or clear the check mark on “use drop shadowns for icon lables on the desktop” and click OK.

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Best way is to simply use yum.

Yum install name of software

Thats it.

vi /etc/crontab

!! - to edit crontab type: crontab -e (as root)

The crontab command, found in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, is used to schedule commands to be executed periodically. It reads a series of commands from standard input and collects them into a file also known as a “crontab” which is later read and whose instructions are carried out. The name is derived from Greek chronos (χρόνος), meaning time.

Generally, the schedules modified by crontab are enacted by a daemon, crond, which runs constantly in the background and checks once a minute to see if any of the scheduled jobs need to be executed. If so, it executes them. These jobs are generally referred to as cron jobs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

tail -30 /var/log/messages  -  server logs