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Boot Linux Over HTTP With netboot.me
table align=left cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=39 height=40 style=margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;trtdimg class=teaser-image-odd src=http://images.howtoforge.com/images/teaser/tux.gif width=36 height=40 alt= //td/tr/tablepbBoot Linux Over HTTP With netboot.me/b/p
pThis tutorial shows how you can boot Linux over HTTP with netboot.me.
All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe)
to boot the machine. This gpxe [...]
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Linux
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vi: /usr/bin/view exists in filesystem
Today, after a long time not updating my Linux Operating system (Arch distro), I decided to start a/p
psudo pacman -Syu/p
pI got this error after downloading all the packages/p
perror: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)br /
vi: /usr/bin/view exists in filesystembr /
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded./p
pHopefully, the [...]
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Browser
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Greatly improve the speed of Firefox 3
We all know Firefox is a memory hog. To speed things up greatly, do the following:
1. Open Firefox and in the address bar type about:config.2. Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise“3. Use the search bar above to look for network.http.pipelining and double click [...]
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Software
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gummi – Simple LaTeX editor written in Python/GTK
Gummi is a lightweight LaTeX editor written in Python/GTK+ released as open-source software under a dual MIT/Beerware license.
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Linux
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How to Create Your Own USB Linux Distro with LiLi
Linux Live CDs have long been well known as a handy tool in PC repair. Personally I’ve used Linux CDs dozens of times to repair Windows problems, from virus scans to file retrieval to partition adjustments. As great as [...]
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Browser
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Minimize space with Firefox
Because of the netbook craze or just because you like seeing more of the web and less of the application it takes to view it, one might want to minimize the usage of screen space taken up by various firefox functions. Below are several tips for accomplishing [...]
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Ubuntu
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PGP – Setting Up Your Launchpad Key
Granted, Launchpad might not be something newer Ubuntu users or less experienced users consider joining? However, I recently checked out the site and created my account. When I’m ready to create a couple packages, I can upload them to launchpad, where I or anyone [...]
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Webserver
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Installing a Web Server on Your Old Laptop
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Building a Web Developer / Designer PCIn an earlier post to this series, I talked about converting an old ancient IBM Thinkpad T22 Laptop into a proxy server (using Squid). While this did [...]
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Security
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Using Firewall Object in Firewall Builder
This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Firewall BuilderThis article continues the series of articles on Fireall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well [...]
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Linux,
Tricks,
Ubuntu
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20 Useful, Common Linux (Ubuntu) Commands for New Users
I recently was asked by a new Ubuntu user (also involved in web, graphic design, etc.), what some of the more common day to day commands I use are.
Many of these commands can increase productivity, etc. by making things (for me at [...]
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Virtualization
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Converting VMware Images to VirtualBox – A Simple Method
When I need to run a Windows based application on my trusty Ubuntu Hardy box, I don’t use Wine. Don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I don’t want to have to manage the Wine environment and prefer to have Windows and [...]
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Monitoring,
Networking
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Network Monitoring Appliance
table align=left cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=42 height=40 style=margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;trtdimg class=teaser-image-odd src=http://images.howtoforge.com/images/teaser/ubuntu.gif width=39 height=40 alt= //td/tr/tablepbNetwork Monitoring Appliance/b/p
pMy ambition was to implement a small (better tiny) appliance for
monitoring network health and network resources, short and longtime
trends, running under VMware Server or VMware ESX. So I had an eye upon
all components which [...]
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1
table align=left cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=43 height=40 style=margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;trtdimg class=teaser-image-even src=http://images.howtoforge.com/images/teaser/mandriva.gif width=40 height=40 alt= //td/tr/tablepbInstalling Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1/b/p
pLighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on a [...]
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Ubuntu
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Amarok 2.1 is out Installing Amarok 2.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
I was catching up on some feeds yesterday, and this piece of news caught my eye – Amarok 2.1 released. Being a long time Amarok fan ( heck Amarok itself was catalyst to make me use my SUSE 10.0 [...]
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Graphics
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Gimp Tricks: Selective Colorization
Today, I’m going to teach you how to first simply create a black and white image from a color photo, then to selectively colorize any portion of the photo. I’m not going to directly adapt a Photoshop tutorial because this is a very simple process, but if [...]