If you run a lot of terminal tabs or scripts that all need to make OpenSSH connections to the same server, you can speed them all up with multiplexing: making the first one act as the master and letting the others share its TCP connection to the server.
Read more at Linux Journal
Debian Lenny’s release is getting closer and closer and many people will want to upgrade their Etch servers to Lenny.This is currently in testing so it is not recommended to use these instruction in production.
Before Upgrade
Take a complete backup of your debian etch server
Procedure to follow
First you need to take a backup of your sources.list [...]
VBoxManage, a command-line utility that allows you to control all of VirtualBox’s powerful features.In essence, VBoxManage supports everything that our graphical user interface allows you to do with the click of a button. VBoxManage supports a lot more than that,however. It exposes really all the features of the virtualization engine, even those that cannot (yet) [...]
The KDE project aims to change all that. KDE now provides an easy to use contemporary desktop environment available for UNIX and compatible systems. Together with a free implementation of UNIX such as GNU/Linux, UNIX/KDE constitutes a completely free and open computing platform available to anyone free of charge. Source code is available for anyone [...]
After all the stress of the holidays, and before you start getting stressed about taxes – you need a way to relax. How do I relax? I play games. Want to turn Firefox into your own personal arcade? Here are a more than a few extensions to help you along [...]
This article explains how you can set up a caching reverse proxy with Squid
2.6 in front of your web server on Debian Etch. If you have a
high-traffic dynamic web site that generates lots of database queries
on each request, you can decrease the server load dramatically by
caching your content for a few minutes or more (that [...]
QEMU is a CPU and process emulator which allows you to create virtual machines that can run on any platform. QEMU manager uses this emulator to virtualize Linux on windows systems. In this post we show you how to create an Ubuntu virtual machine on Windows using QEMU manager.
Summary of steps involved and software needed:
1. [...]
It is a misconception to think that all the emails in your Gmail account are safe and will be there forever. In the events that Gmail is down, or for some reasons, you were banned by Google, you won’t be able to access all your emails and all of them will be gone forever. To [...]
If you want to ssh your vps server or your home computer from your work place (assuming you are using http proxy).You need to use Corkscrew.
corkscrew is a simple tool to tunnel TCP connections through an HTTP proxy supporting the CONNECT method. It reads stdin and writes to stdout during the connection, just like netcat.
It [...]
We have already discussed how to install VirtualBox 2.1.0 in ubuntu one of the important change is Host interface networking made easy with Host Interface Networking, VirtualBox uses a device driver on your host system that filters data from your physical network adapter. This driver is therefore called a “net filter” driver.
Read more at [...]
Ever have a Firefox add-on that just did not want to leave your PC? Most of the extensions to Firefox are really easy to remove, however sometimes you run into a situation where one is so bad or tricky, it just doesn’t want to let go. Here are some of the common ways [...]
If you want to auto login and startx without a display manager in Debian use the one of the following method
Method 1
First you need to edit the /etc/inittab file
Read more at Debian Admin
The tab is easily one of the most used feature in Firefox. It gives you the convenience of browsing different sites in one single window and save you the trouble of too many windows cluttering your desktop. If you are like me, who like to open many tabs at the same time, here are 10 [...]
I just bought a new computer and I want to run Ubuntu 8.10 and
Vista. I’m really afraid to loose some of my data when a harddrive
dies, so I decided to go for a RAID10-setup. Most modern motherboards
support RAID0,1,5 and 10. After assembling my new computer, I discovered that the motherboard
didn’t have a true hardware-RAID-controller. Instead [...]
mylvmbackup
is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM’s
snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a
read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates
a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and
unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it [...]