If you have files that are bigger than 4GB in size, you will find that you can’t back them up to your external hard disk, even though it has 1TB of storage space. The reason being, when you first bought the hard disk, it is pre-formatted with FAT32 format, and in case you don’t know, [...]
When you accept the defaults for the Boot Loader in openSUSE at the time of installation, it will include the default openSUSE boot option, a failsafe boot option for openSUSE, a Floppy disk boot…
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a gOS 3.0 Gadgets
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, [...]
This document describes how to set up a centralized network backup with Amanda. We will
use virtual tape to store the backup.
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This tutorial will run you through the installation, configuration
and preparation of media for Apple’s Darwin QuickTime Streaming Server
on Centos/RHEL 5.2. Darwin QuickTime Streaming Server is capable of
serving H.264 and mpeg4 file formats via the RTP/RTSP streaming
protocols.
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2
on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and
run guest operating systems (”virtual machines”) such as Linux,
Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the
benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same
hardware which saves a [...]
This is a detailed description about how to set up a Mandriva 2008 Spring Free (Mandriva 2008.1) server on the x86_64
platform that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache
web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS,
BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP,
Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written [...]
Furius ISO Mount
is a tool that lets you mount and unmount ISO images on your desktop,
calculate the checksums (MD5 and SHA1) of the ISO images, and burn them
onto a CD or DVD (using external programs like Brasero or Nautilus). It
comes with a graphical user interface and is extremely easy to use.
This guide shows how to [...]
Foremost and Scalpel are not interested in the underlying filesystem. They simply expect the data blocks of the files to reside sequentially in the image under investigation. The tools will find images in dd dumps, RAM dumps, or swap files.Carving will help to identify and reconstruct files on corrupt filesystems, in
slack space, or even after [...]
Zimbra software is open source, meaning we make both the software code and the application itself available to anyone at no charge. Also, Zimbra Desktop is a full version; there are no missing features or catches.
Yahoo!zimbra Feature details
Email
* Easily compose, edit, delete, reply, or make drafts
* ‘Drag [...]
The following section is intended for users who have configured Openbox to run as a standalone desktop, without the assistance of GNOME, KDE or Xfce.
Openbox Themes
Openbox themes control the appearance of window borders, including the titlebar and titlebar buttons. They also determine the appearance of the application menu and on-screen display (OSD).
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Web page compression is not a new technology, but it has just recently gained higher recognition in the minds of IT administrators and managers because of the rapid ROI it generates. Compression extensions exist for most of the major Web server platforms, but in this article I will focus on the Apache and mod_gzip solution.
The [...]
Old hardware? Want a faster boot up? Need to free some system resources? Want snappier applications? This is for you. Note, I wouldn’t suggest doing anything within this if it doesn’t make sense to you.
Boot Process
1. Remove Network Manager if you do not need it “sudo apt-get remove network-manager”. If possible give yourself [...]
Today is going to be a practical tip. If you’re managing many Unix systems, sooner or later you come across files with special characters - they can’t be deleted with rm command using standard approach and require a bit of trickery to be successfully removed.
Examples of files with special characters
Any language apart from English will [...]
Sooner or later, we all end up installing new software on our computers. Whether it’s a new version of Firefox, or a cool game, or a video editing package, there comes a time when you want to make your system do more than it can do now.
Under Linux, installing new applications isn’t a particularly hard [...]