Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is the upcoming version of the Ubuntu operating system. The common name given to this release from the time of its early development was “Hardy Heron”.
Note: This is still a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released in April 2008.
If you want to [...]
The main focus of this article is to get you setup with a solid Linux server and a streaming media application called Ampache. If you follow my guide verbatim, you will have exactly that. Let’s get started!
Step 1: Install Ubuntu. Go here and download the server edition of Ubuntu 7.10. The server edition is the [...]
Producing a video podcast entirely on Linux is not only possible but fairly easy to do. This article outlines the steps you can take to make a video podcast entirely on Linux, as I do.
Creating a podcast takes three steps:
Filming — Here you just need you, an idea, and a camera.
Editing and production [...]
Odds are, if you design Web sites with a database back end, you’ve worked with MySQL. You can manage this database from the command line, but it’s not very user-friendly. Using the graphical tool phpMyAdmin helps, but not all Web hosting providers offer it or allow you to install it on the server. Fortunately, you [...]
My biggest fear when using a public computer is that the data I enter might fall into the wrong hands. One way for developers to combat data theft is to hold personal info only for as long as is absolutely necessary, thereby shortening the window of opportunity for an attacker. This is possible in Linux [...]
Today, I will explain to you how to install VMWare
Server on openSUSE 10.3. What this will do for you is be able to run Windows inside
your Linux computer. If you have that Windows app that just doesn’t run under Wine,
then this is the setup for you.
Read more at HowtoForge
Recently, there was a report from Finjan that administrator credentials for over 9,000 FTP servers were for sale. Then, F-Secure noted an increase in FTP-based attacks. Many companies and organization still use FTP extensively. If you’re running an FTP server and you think you’re admin credentials might be one of those 9,000, you should consider [...]
Nagios is (in my opinion) one of the finest availability and monitoring solutions available. The stability, extendability and cost effectiveness (it is free under the GPL), are second to none (again, my opinion). That being said, it is far from being the easiest monitoring solution to implement. The build process itself, while not being overly [...]
This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM
system (Debian Etch). The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a
way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard
drives fails (no matter which one).
Read more at HowtoForge
If you have ever tried to implement one of the hotspot HowTos on
this and other site, it might have dawned on you that this is not an
easy feat to accomplish. Amazingly most solutions also leave out the
most important part – how to get paid by the punters using the hotspot.
Some will offer prepaid solution or [...]
This document describes how to set up PC-BSD v1.5. This release is
based upon FreeBSD 6.3 and uses KDE 3.5.8 as default desktop
environment. Taken from the PC-BSD page: PC-BSD is a complete
desktop operating system, which has been designed with the “casual”
computer user in mind. It offers the stability and security that only a
BSD-based operating system can [...]
This tutorial shows how you can install and use avast! Linux Home Edition
on an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon desktop. Although there aren’t many Linux
viruses out there, this can be useful if you often exchange files with
Windows users - it can help you to not pass on any Windows viruses
(that don’t do any harm to Linux systems) [...]
This document describes how to set up the Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) on Fedora 8. Taken from the OTRS page: “OTRS
is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble
ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls
and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales,
pre-sales, billing, internal IT, [...]
This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip
with Apache2 on a Debian Etch system. mod_geoip looks up the IP address
of the client end user. This allows you to redirect or block users
based on their country. You can also use this technology for your OpenX (formerly known as OpenAds or phpAdsNew) ad server to allow geo [...]
Facter is a cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from
operating systems. It supports multiple resolution mechanisms, any of
which can be restricted to working only on certain operating systems or
environments. Facter is especially useful for retrieving things like
operating system names, IP addresses, MAC addresses, and SSH keys. It
is easy to extend Facter to include your own [...]