Extensions are one of the major selling points for Firefox. No other browser can match the sheer volume of third-party mini applications and enhancements.
Most Firefox users are aware of the concept of extensions, but not as many people know that Extensions (and Themes) are available for its email client cousin Thunderbird as well.
First of all, [...]
This guide explains how to integrate XCache into PHP5 on a Mandriva 2008.0 system (with Apache2). From the XCache project page: “XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load.” It’s similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and APC.
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SafeSquid – Content Filtering Internet Proxy, has many content
filtering features that can be used to decide who is allowed what, when
and how much on the net. In this tutorial I will describe how to create
user profiles, and give them access to specific websites only, while
blocking access to all other websites.
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This document describes how to set up ImpressCMS 1.0 Final On Debian
Etch. Taken from the ImpressCMS page: “ImpressCMS is a community
developed Content Management System for easily building and maintaining
a dynamic web site. Keep your web site up to date with this easy to
use, secure and flexible system.”
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This mini-howto explains how to set up an SSH server on Debian Etch
with public-key authorization (and optionally with disabled password
logins). SSH is a great tool to control Linux-based computers remotely.
It’s safe and secure.
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Vlogger is a little piece of code borned to handle dealing with large amounts of virtualhost logs. It’s bad news that apache can’t do this on its own. Vlogger takes piped input from apache, splits it off to separate files based on the first field. It uses a file handle cache so it can’t run [...]
In setting up their wireless connection for the first time, Im discovering many individuals having problems connecting through Network Manager or other GUI wireless connection tools. In fact my Network Manager is intermittently buggy, connecting sometimes and not others. This guide benefits all users in case the GUI tools are not working, and is useful [...]
I have test this script in my computer, and it works, but you know the relationship between ATI and systems Linux, and believe which is much better. I’m using Debian, anywhere system Debian based the configuration should be similar.
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Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site-Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesn’t have the menus, toolbars and other accoutrements of a traditional web browser. An SSB [...]
I have successfully used the method below to configure the change_ldappass plugin of Squirrelmail to perform password strength checks using cracklib. I made a few assumptions, but it should be easy to adapt it to your own situation.
For example squirrelmail is custom installed, in /usr/share/squirrelmail/, using the newest stable version and I preferred to use [...]
This HOWTO will describe how to install BackupPC and how to create a simple backup using backuppc. BackupPC can offer a nice solution for both simple and complex backups.
I will describe how to backup one client with rsync and ssh with key-based authentication. We will create a special user which uses sudo powers to read [...]
The built in Mail program for Ubuntu is Evolution Mail. It has a familiar interface to MS Outlook and OSX Mail.
In this tutorial I walkthrough setting up Evolution mail witha POP account, in this example I use my gmail account information. This can be applied in similar fashion for your own ISP mail server information [...]
pam_mount is “a Pluggable Authentication Module that can mount volumes for a user session”. It is used to automatically mount a network share or volume when a user logs in, and unmount it when the user logs out sshfs is a FUSE filesystem that allows mounting a directory using the SSH sftp subsystem.
pam_mount and sshfs [...]
By this time, many Linux users may well know about the Logical Volume Management in Linux and the software RAID subsystem. The Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a mechanism for virtualizing disks. It creates “Virtual disk drives and volumes(partitions)” out of one or more physical hard drives, allowing users to grow, shrink, move those VOLUMES [...]
This document describes how to set up iTALC on Ubuntu 7.10. iTALC is an open-source classroom management solution that lets you view and control other computers in your network. It lets you remote-control other computers, show the teacher’s screen on all students’ computers, lock workstations, send text-messages to students, power on/off and reboot remote computers, [...]