A few weeks ago, I wrote an article on How To Run Multiple X Sessions Without Virtualization, which demonstrated how you can run multiple desktop environments at the same time on the same computer, and switch between them at the push of a button. I admit, this was somewhat of a warmup for the [...]
Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.
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I’ve been using a small utility called eee-control on my Asus Eee PC 901 netbook with Ubuntu. eee-control lets you take control of the hardware on Eee PCs. Some of these controls, like the performance modes, were easily accessible in the default Asus Linux distribution but not from Ubuntu. It includes:
* [...]
This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder,
a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that
supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS
access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article explains key principles of the policy or
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This tutorial explains how to install and use luckyBackup
on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. luckyBackup is an application for data
back-up and synchronization powered by the rsync tool. It is simple to
use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all data), safe
(keeps your data safe by checking all declared directories before
proceeding in any data manipulation ), [...]
Computer Janitor is a tool that lets you clean up a system so it’s
more like a freshly installed one. Computer Janitor deletes unnecessary
files to free valuable disk space. This tutorial shows how to use it on
an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop.
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The following will install and configure DRBD, OpenAIS, Pacemaker and Xen
on OpenSUSE 11.1 to provide highly-available virtual machines. This setup does
not utilize Xen’s live migration capabilities. Instead, VMs will be started
on the secondary node as soon as failure of the primary is detected. Xen
virtual disk images are replicated between nodes using DRBD and all services
on [...]
MultiTail
lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The
difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with
ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the
wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically
switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor a complete
directory of [...]
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 9.04
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, and
the [...]
The general idea is to use the logsave to register commands and their outputs. Initially we record local commands and then we use this technique to make a record (locally) about a remote session.
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a gOS 3.1 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, [...]
While working on my own book for Apress, Free Software for Creative People, I’ve also been typesetting a 240 page poetry book by Richard McKane using Scribus, for the publisher Hearing Eye. Years ago I used to use Quark Xpress for this sort of project, so I was pleased to find out that free software [...]
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server.
It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP,
CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication,
on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and
much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on an
Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (through [...]
If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem
already: somewhere on your server is a vulnerable contact form or CMS
system written in PHP that gets abused by spammers to send emails
trough your server. If you have more than a few websites, it is a pain
to detect which of the sites is vulnerable [...]
recordMyDesktop
is a desktop session recorder for GNU/Linux that attemps to be easy to
use, yet also effective at its primary task. It produces files using
only open formats. These are theora for video and vorbis for audio,
using the ogg container. This tutorial shows how to install and use
recordMyDesktop on Ubuntu 9.04.
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