If you want to configure Cisco VPN on Ubuntu 9.0.4 is very easy now.You don’t need to install the Cisco VPN client – NetworkManager includes support for Cisco IPSec VPNs.NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times. It is intended primarily for laptops where it allows easy switching betwen local wireless [...]
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
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MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE (2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 [...]
PIDA is the Python Integrated Development Application. It is an IDE (integrated development environment) written in Python and the GTK+ graphical toolkit.
Pida is an IDE, but one that is slightly different from other IDEs. Rather than attempting to write a set of development tools of its own, Pida uses tools that the developer has available. [...]
iMacros is a nifty Firefox extension that allows you to save loads of time by letting you record repetitive tasks such as filling out forms, email, and more without the need of any sort of special skills!
End the terrible thought of having to manually conduct every task that requires your attention on the web and [...]
Since I have a Skype account and a new install of Ubuntu 9.04 I thought it would make sense to get Skype going.
In order to install Skype, it is not in the repository, you must go to the Skype web site. Quite frankly, I am not sure they give a rip about Linux users
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In this document I will try to explain what it takes to get an encrypted fileserver.
I chose to have a server with one disk where the OS resides and all ‘big disks’ to be mounted into the directory-tree but that’s not something that’s necessary or such. I did not attempt to have the OS itself
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This guide explains how you can do a live migration of an LVM-based
virtual machine (domU) from one Xen host to the other. I will use iSCSI
to provide shared storage for the virtual machines in this tutorial.
Both Xen hosts and the iSCSI target are running on Debian Lenny in this
article.
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SugarCRM is a
webbased CRM solution written in PHP. SugarCRM is available in
different flavours called “Editions” (“Community” (free),
“Professional”, and “Enterprise”). For a detailed overview of the different editions, have a look at the SugarCRM website. In this tutorial I will describe the installation of the free Community Edition on Fedora 10. With the modules My Portal, [...]
This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
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 [...]
If you run a business, finding an efficient system for managing invoices is critical for sustaining a positive cash flow. Here’s how you can create an easy invoicing solution using OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc.
By Dmitri Popov
CREATING A DATA SOURCE
First, you need to connect OpenOffice.org to an address book that contains your customers’ contact data. OpenOffice.org [...]
E-mail is one of the most useful areas for encryption — it’s nice to not have to treat e-mail as a postcard! — and also the one where it’s most important that encryption should Just Work. Enigmail offers a very usable GnuPG plugin to Thunderbird.
To use it, you’ll first need to install GPG (also probably [...]
Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.
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After you have downloaded and installed Ubuntu 9.04, what is next thing you should do?
Getting Ubuntu onto your hard disk is only the first step. It is still in the raw and unpolished state. To get the best out of it, you really need to configure and customize it to suit your needs. In part [...]
There are a lot of contenders in the ring when it comes to open source desktop environments. The most well known would probably be Gnome and KDE in the heavyweight class, XFCE for middleweight, and any number of small, fast desktop environments and window managers in the lightweight ring. When it comes to [...]