This guide shows how you can install and use BleachBit
on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop to delete unnecessary files. BleachBit
deletes unnecessary files (such as cache, cookies, Internet history,
localizations, logs, temporary files, and broken shortcuts) to free
valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. It wipes clean
Adobe Reader, APT, Bash, Beagle, Chromium, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash,
GIMP, Google Earth, [...]
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 7 (Gloria)
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 [...]
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Fedora 10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol
as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone
server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user
has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol [...]
This guide explains how to integrate eAccelerator into PHP5 and lighttpd on a Debian Lenny system. From the eAccelerator project page: “eAccelerator
is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content
cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in
their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost
completely eliminated. It also [...]
This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment)
install server on Debian Lenny. A PXE install server allows your client
computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network,
without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy
images, etc. This is handy if your client computers [...]
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install
VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 9.04 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 [...]
In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig 3
on Fedora 10. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as
backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or
djbdns. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the
database, and it does not have to be [...]
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (through
FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.3 server. From the Suhosin project page: “Suhosin
is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was
designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in
PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent
parts, that can be used separately [...]
This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu
9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable
graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz
Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a
desktop cube on your desktop.
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Have you ever had several copies of the same file on your PC? I tend to make duplicates of files before I edit them, this is especially true with graphic or video files – even config files for that matter. That way, when I make serious mistakes, I can always go back to square one.
The [...]
Whenever you make a change to your firewall, on a Fedora/CentOS type system, you will want to save the changes.
The output can be redirected to a file.
# iptables-save > /root/firewall-rules
The following command line restores all rules from /root/firewall-rules assuming that the file /root/firewall-rules exists.
# iptables-restore < /root/firewall-rules
By default, iptables-restore deletes all existing rules before restoring
Read [...]
KDE provides users with the tools to run software automatically using two features: Autostart and Task Scheduler (formerly called KCron). These tasks can be initiated immediately prior to KDE startup, during KDE startup, or scheduled at anytime: daily, hourly, weekly, or even every five minutes. Both of these features were present in KDE [...]
We have covered the easy way to mount iso images in Windows. This time round, we are going to cover the easy way to mount an iso, bin or cue file in Ubuntu without having to hit the terminal every time.
With the use of fuesiso and nautilus-actions, we can easily create an option in Nautilus [...]
Virtualbox is an excellent application to have if you’re looking to try out new operating systems and/or are generally interested in virtualisation for the many benefits it offers.
Make Tech Easier has extensively covered VirtualBox a couple of times earlier and we are great fans of this cross platform, open source application.
One thing which VirtualBox was [...]