I first read about Fotox in an article by Dmitri Popov, who writes a lot of articles that I enjoy reading. I gave it a test drive, and it’s no Adobe Photoshop. Which for me is a plus–for editing digital photographs, Photoshop is overpriced, lardy overkill, and there is no Linux version anyway. Fotox comes [...]
In this final installment to the series I’ll double your reading pleasure by presenting two new Linux softsynths. Such a deal, two reviews for the price of one!
When I wrote my article on the LinuxSampler Project I noted the distinction between a performance sampler and a studio sampler. It occurs to me now that the [...]
Many hex editors try to copy an entire file into memory before they let you edit it, which explicitly limits the size of the files you can view or edit. lfhex is designed to allow you to edit binary files larger than can fit into your computer’s memory.
Read more at Linux.com
KeyTouch is an application designed to allow you to make full use of all the special function keys on your keyboard, whether the hardware supports Linux or not. It’s a great idea, especially with all the multimedia applications that come standard with today’s PCs. But as is often the case, the devil is in the [...]
Everybody who owns a computer will someday need to dispose of a disk drive. Before you do, it is a good idea to cleanse the drive, so no one can read your sensitive information. Deleting files and reformatting is not sufficient; determined effort can still reveal data from a drive even after it appears to [...]
The main problem with Pulseaudio and Skype on Fedora 9 (maybe also
on other distributions) is stuttering, crackling sound. This document
describes how to fix the sound issues between Skype 2.0 and Pulseaudio
on Fedora 9.
Read more at HowtoForge
Areca
is a personal file backup software developed in Java. It allows you to
select files or directories to backup, filter, encrypt and compress
their content, and store them on your backup location. Areca supports
incremental backups and generates backup reports, which can be stored
on your disk or sent by email. This guide explains how to install and
use it [...]
Computers may be assigned a static IP address or assigned one dynamically (via DHCP). Here I will explain the steps needed to assign an IP address to your NIC.
Choose one of the following methods:
Command line :
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
GUI tool : You can use the GUI tool [...]
There are different ways of installing a network card in linux - and that too depending on the linux distribution that you are using. I will explain each one of these methods here.
1) The Manual method
First open the computer case and insert the network card into an empty PCI slot. Then boot up your machine [...]
In linux, you can change the hardware (MAC) address of your machine.This is how it is done.
# ifconfig eth0 down
# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:80:48:BA:d1:20
# ifconfig eth0 up
# ifconfig eth0 |grep HWaddr
Why would I want to change the MAC address of my machine - you ask ?
Consider this scenario. I am connected to the internet [...]
rsync is a software application for Unix systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. An important feature of rsync not found in most similar programs/protocols is that the mirroring takes place with only one transmission in each direction. rsync can copy or [...]
Have you ever faced problem of busy ports?
Here is the solution to kill a process which is occupyingh any specific port.
Read more at Tux Training
This tutorial shows a quick way of installing a LAMP server (Linux + Apache + MySQL +
PHP/Perl together commonly known as LAMP Server.) on CentOS and RHEL server systems.
Read more at HowtoForge
Unbound
is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver, released under a
BSD license. Version 1.0.0 was released on May 20, 2008. This tutorial
explains how to install and use it on Debian Etch, including the
creation of zones for your own domains.
Read more at HowtoForge
First you must have OpenVZ installed and configured. You can find a
tutorial to do this on HowtoForge. Because of a small problem/error in
Debian Etch, it is not possible to update the Rubygems system because a
Require in the gems is missing. But we can solve it with a simple edit
of the file. WebVZ is one of [...]