Posted by suvi under
Tricks
Imagine… You just bought an new hard drive. And you want to mount it with FSTAB so it will be mounted every boot up. But your too lazy to understand FSTAB. I approve your lazy life stile like I am used to be. And here I will tell you an great secret from the lazy “Ubuntu” trolls. Keep in mind I would advice you to mount your hard drives manually. For now I will show you the lazy way.
Open the “Terminal”
Read more at Debian Admin
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Networking
I have been traveling the last two weeks, and I have found how useful is wifi-radar on my Linux powered laptop.
I have an IBM Thinkpad T30 with an Aironet Wifi internal card (for the records)
As you may see on the wifi-radar home page, there are packages for Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu and Suse, I have seen that the Gentoo link is broken, but it is also easy to install on it.
Installing wifi-radar
Gentoo
Read more at go2linux.org
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Security
Q. Most rootkits use the power of the kernel to hide themselves, they are only visible from within the kernel. How do I detect rootkits under CentOS or Debian Linux server?
A.. A rootkit is a program (or combination of several programs) designed to take fundamental control (in Unix terms “root” access, in Windows terms “Administrator” access) of a computer system, without authorization by the system’s owners and legitimate managers.
Posted by suvi under
Gnome,
Networking,
Security
Connect to your Linux computer remotely without needing to take the less secure
VNC route yet, still having a GUI to work with. This quick and painless
tutorial will show how to forward your GNOME session from your Linux
box to another computer, via SSH and X11 Forwarding. I have found out
along the way that X11 forwarding seems quicker then a traditional VNC
connection and has better integration. Better security and (what seems
like) quicker response times are just one of the benefits of using SSH.
Posted by suvi under
Backup,
Tricks,
Ubuntu
If you’ve ever wanted to completely clone your Ubuntu install, with all of the tweaks, files you’ve downloaded and changes you’ve made to it, there’s a fairly simple way to do this. This is great if you want a complete backup, or if you’re looking to move your system to a newer (read: bigger, faster, stronger) hard drive or even just to clone your install to other machines with the same hardware.
Read more at ArsGeek
Posted by suvi under
Backup,
Ubuntu,
Xfce
The earth is orbited by many satellites, and every year, many more are sent up into space. Considering the amount of satellites, there is an enormous risk that one of those artificials moons suddenly decides to take a stroll and crashes into your home. I think you’ll agree with me that this would be disastrous - all your precious data would be lost! Your holiday pictures, important documents for school/work and your music collection - all gone!
Posted by suvi under
Browser,
Ubuntu
This guide explains how you can install Apple’s Safari browser on Ubuntu 7.10. As there is no Linux version of Safari, we will run it under Wine. We will use a tool called PlayOnLinux
to install Safari under Wine. With PlayOnLinux you can install lots of
Windows games and some Windows applications (such as Office 2003, IE6,
MS Money, etc.) on Linux. Installing Safari on Linux is good for people
Posted by suvi under
Server,
Ubuntu
This tutorial explains how to turn an old PC with additional
hard disks into a simple home file server. The file server is intended for home use. The home file server is
accessible by Windows and Linux computers in the home network.
The existing tutorials do not describe how to add additional
disks or have a complex authorization or access procedure. Freenas
(www.freenas.org) does have too many features for home users and more
important it does not support the NTFS format.
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Debian,
Networking
djbdns is a very secure suite of DNS tools that consists out of multiple parts: dnscache, a DNS cache that can be used in /etc/resolv.conf
instead of your ISP’s name servers and that tries to sort out wrong
(malicious) DNS answers; axfrdns, a service that runs on the master DNS
server and to which the slaves connect for zone transfers; and tinydns,
the actual DNS server, a very secure replacement for BIND.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
Posted by suvi under
Debian,
MySQL,
PHP,
Server
MySQL 4 and PHP 4 are quite old, but you might have PHP applications
on your server that require PHP4 and MySQL 4. The problem is that
Debian Etch comes with MySQL 5 only, and its PHP4 packages depend on
MySQL 5 and don’t work with MySQL 4. This guide shows how you can
install MySQL 4.1 on Debian Etch along with PHP4 packages that work
with MySQL 4.1.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
Posted by suvi under
Tricks
If you are like me, you have a ton of passwords you have to remember. I
have different login names and passwords for bank accounts, forums,
blogs, email, and other stuff. How do you deal with it all? How can a
person possibly remember them all, especially the ones that only get
used once every month or two, or just a couple of times in a year?
Read more at Matthew Helmke (dot) Net
Posted by suvi under
Networking,
Other,
Server
XMPP is an open technology for instant messaging and presence
information. It provides the opportunity to build an open source and
free messaging server to handle many applications in varied
environments. We are going to setup a XMPP server on a LAN to handle
communications between LAN and WAN contacts. By running our own server
we can gain some insight into how XMPP and Jabber work, create
an efficient and easy to use internal communications setup, connect our
server to other servers and services including WAN communications, and