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Offline Package Management for APT
This article is about Offline Package Management in Debian. Debian is a pretty well known project. One of the things that makes Debian very popular is APT (a.k.a Advanced Packaging Tool) which allows remote package downloads, upgrades and dependency resolution. Unfortunately it does require [...]
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Howto install PlayOnLinux in Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy
PlayOnLinux is a piece of sofware which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and softwares designed to run with Microsoft®’s Windows®.
Few games are compatible with GNU/Linux at the moment and it certainly is a factor preventing the migration to this system. PlayOnLinux brings [...]
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Evolving A Database With MySQL
This tutorial explains how to grow your own database definition in a way that is maintainable, by using so-called recreate scripts. These scripts can be used to both create a database from scratch and update an existing database.
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How To Enable Networking In Xen Guests On Hetzner’s New EQ Servers (Debian Lenny)
This tutorial shows how you can enable networking in Xen guests (domU) on Hetzner’s new EQ servers.
With the new EQ servers, you can get up to three additional IPs that
are in the same subnet as the server’s [...]
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This tutorial shows how to set up a bCentOS 5.4
server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and web
hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with
SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server,
Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for
the 64-bit version of [...]
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This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses
virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This
is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a
single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with
this setup.
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Get rid of OpenOffice.org’s logo in Linux
If you for whatever reason dislike OpenOffice.org’s logo or want to gain an extra few seconds of speed while the application loads, you can disable OO.o’s logo by editing the
/etc/openoffice/sofficerc
file and modifying the
Logo=1
value into
Logo=0
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This document describes the installation of the Automatic Dialer GNUDialer, this is an alternative dialer to VICIDial, with more
lightweight scripts and a far more easier GUI, it uses Asterisk and MySQL for its operation./p
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DNS (Domain name system) may not be known to most people who use the
Internet but it is the real invisible force driving the Internet
without which everyone would be seeing numbers and IPs. The whole
meaning of domain names exists today just because of DNS./p
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How To Upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) To 9.10 (Karmic Koala) (Desktop Server)
Yesterday the new Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was released. This
guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 9.04 desktop and server
installations to Ubuntu 9.10./p
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The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 9.10 [ISPConfig 3]
This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install
ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you
to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web
server, Postfix [...]
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Repository management with zypper in Opensuse 11.1
A quick how to for using zypper to manage repositories in Opensuse.
You can specify existing repositories by their number in the list produced by zypper lr, alias, or URI. When using the numbers, make sure you always check zypper lr first, as the numbers [...]
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Install X Window System and a Desktop Environment in Debian
So, you have just installed Debian GNU/Linux. Good for you! But, what now? All you have is a black screen in front of you with no mouse pointer or application menu or anything! What gives?!
What you need now is to install [...]
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Weekly errata Report for YUM based machines
I had a request the other day at the Utah Open Source Conference to share a very small script that I have that checks for, and reports any available updates on a YUM based machine. This means CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, etc. I have been [...]
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Howto Install Vmware Tools in Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy
VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine.Installing VMware Tools in the guest operating system is vital. Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, [...]