The Top 50 Proprietary Programs and their Open Source Alternatives

http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/

List of Linux distributions

We are using Ubuntu as OS. Now in melborrn servers, we use CentOS.
Debian (Ubuntu) / Fedora (CentOS)
They belongs to different distributions.
Useful link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#RPM-based

To find, which linux distribution we use:
cat /etc/*release
or
cat /proc/version
or
uname -a
or
cat /etc/*version

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/how-to-get-os-name-from-command-line-557339/

There are some differences in those distributions.
In Debian, we use app-get and In CentOS, we use yum.

JSON

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format.

http://json.org/

XSS

To prevent XSS, Input validation and output encoding can be done by using SafeHtml (php)and Anti-XSS (ASP )libraries.

Windows shortcuts

This is a useful link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449

Create samba shared folder

sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf
give
[admo]
path = /home/manoj
public = yes
writable = yes
and save
sudo smbpasswd -a manoj
sudo service smb restart
Then, mycomputer->map netwok drive-> //mel1u111/manoj