March 21st, 2007 at 1:30 pm (Linux Articles, Community News)
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Author: Falko Timme
Last edited 03/16/2007
This tutorial shows how you can display weather forecasts, system information like CPU and memory usage, news feeds, music player controls, etc. on a GNOME desktop with gDesklets. gDesklets is a programm that can place small desktop widgets on top of the user’s desktop.
March 11th, 2007 at 7:44 pm (Linux Articles, Community News)
This short guide shows some important commands for your daily work on the Linux command line.
Outputs the processor architecture.
$ arch
i686
Outputs the contents of a file.
$ cat lorem.txt
March 8th, 2007 at 10:38 pm (Linux Articles, Community News, Windows Articles)
The largest dilemma I continue to face coming from Windows to OS X is an ideal web browser. For Windows users, it’s an obvious choice, Firefox. It’s fast, it’s got tabs, extensions, themes, inline searching, spell checking, you can even run IE as a tab within Firefox, it has everything. Why would you use anything else?
March 4th, 2007 at 1:52 pm (Linux Articles, Mobile Phones, Community News)
I ended my previous article (Linux on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet) by saying that the release of the OS 2006 prepared the way for some serious VOIP work. The 770 can now make SIP-based VOIP phone calls and is more like what you’d expect from Nokia–a phone!
February 27th, 2007 at 7:59 pm (Linux Articles, Server Administration, Community News)
Say, you’ve got an SVN for your OpenSource project and would like to mirror it to some remote location that hosts opensource projects (such as SourceForge.net or dev.java.net). I’ll skip the phase of an account and project registration and assume you’ve already got your credentials and SVN repo url. I also assume you are on Debian or Ubuntu and your SVN is up and running under Apache httpd.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:09 pm (Linux Articles, Community News)
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Author: Falko Timme
Last edited 02/17/2007
With the release of Microsoft’s new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the first of a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Fedora Core 6 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all 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, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
February 20th, 2007 at 9:35 pm (Linux Articles, Server Administration, Community News)
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Author: Falko Timme
Last edited 02/11/2007
This tutorial shows how you can set up a network-attached storage server with FreeNAS. FreeNAS is based on the FreeBSD operating system and supports CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, local user authentication, and software RAID (0, 1, 5). It comes with a powerful web interface and uses very little space on the hard drive - about 32MB.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
February 13th, 2007 at 10:57 pm (Linux Articles, Community News, Windows Articles)
Back in September I revived my MiniITX box to serve as a backup server. I set up BackupPC, ran it once, it seemed to work, and then ignored it for weeks. When I checked back, it hadn’t run successfully since. Ugh, I want backups to just work!
A few nights ago I decided to try again, this time dropping the constraint of not installing software on my laptop. Turns out I already had the building block I needed: rsync, installed in the form of Cygwin.
I began with these Rsync for Windows instructions, and everything went smoothly until the very end—rsync on Windows wasn’t connecting to rsync on Ubuntu. My gut told me rsync’s port 873 isn’t open on Ubuntu, but I had no idea how to open ports anymore. Luckily I found How to start rsync daemon at boot in the Ubuntu forums which told me exactly what I needed to know.
February 11th, 2007 at 4:19 pm (Linux Articles, Oracle)
Reporter’s Notebook: So Oracle isn’t going to create its own Linux based on Ubuntu to fight Red Hat. Oracle is going to have its own Linux based on Red Hat’s own binaries to fight Red Hat.Sort of like using a person’s own hands to choke them with.
Officially though, Red Hat is taking the same opinion that I expressed last week about the whole Oracle Linux issue. Namely that Oracle’s move is good for the open source market as a whole.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:58 pm (Linux Articles, Server Administration)
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Author: Nayyar Ahmad
Contact: nayyares *AT* gmail *DOT* com
Dedication: To my pets - boby and tavi.
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Preface:
Some times, we are required to resolve our Internal domains at local nameserver while External (Internet) domains from ISP’s nameserver. There are different solutions to this problem, but in this howto, we are going to solve it through configuring combination of caching-nameserver and BIND 9 together.
Theory Behind Caching-Namerserver and BIND 9:
Caching-Nameserver is a type of nameserver that will resolve a web address (domain name) from its next or master DNS, and will keep those entries in cache, after first time resolution it will resolve DNS queries locally, untill its TTL (Time To Live) is expired.
BIND 9 is used to resolve domain resolution queries from it own database, as it is SOA (Start Of Authority).
