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HowtoForge has instructions for building a custom LiveCD out of an Ubuntu based system. This guide shows how you can create a Live-CD from your Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon or Linux Mint 4.0 system with a tool called remastersys. Remastersys is available in the Linux Mint romeo repository. You can customize your Ubuntu/Linux Mint system and [...]
Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:35:11 +0000
Introduction To The Linux Mint Cinnamon Desktop This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through the features
of the Cinnamon desktop, Mint's new desktop
environment to be used in Linux Mint 13. Cinnamon concentrates on
holding on to classic design and functionality in times where Gnome 3
and Unity come up with different innovations to the user interface. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:23:12 +0100
How To Securely Destroy/Wipe Data On Hard Drives With shred Sometimes you need to destroy or wipe data from hard drives (for
example, before you sell your old hard drives on eBay) so that nobody
else can access them. Simply deleting data (e.g. with rm) is not enough
because that just removes the file system pointer, but not the data, so
it can easily be undeleted with recovery software. Even zero'ing out
your hard drive might not be enough. Here's where shred comes into play -
shred can verwrite the files and partitions repeatedly, in order to
make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the
data. Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:06:38 +0100
AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Sendmail Mail Server This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linux/FreeBSD to the Sendmail mail server. It is usable for AVG version 8.5, 10 and 2012. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:10:58 +0100
Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 16 Nginx (pronounced
"engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx
is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and
low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx
on a Fedora 16 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:24:18 +0100
Centralized RSYSLOG Server Monitoring This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install
RSYSLOG server on Debian 6 (Squeeze) and how to send syslog data to it
from multiple client servers. We will also show how to install an Apache
webserver and a MySQL database server to gather the syslog data and how
to install LogAnalyzer to easily browse the collected data with a
web-browser. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:40:53 +0100
Installing A Web, Email & MySQL Database Cluster On Debian 6.0 With ISPConfig 3 This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email,
database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and
load balancing on Debian 6 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. MySQL
Master/Master replication will be used to replicate the MySQL client
databases between the servers and Unison will be used to Sync the /var/www (websites) and /var/vmail (email account data) folders. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:33:54 +0100
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.10 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 11.10 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI)
and MySQL support. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:25:38 +0100
Icinga Configuration For Nginx On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 11.10 Icinga is an
enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over
networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of
errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. It
is a fork of Nagios.
This tutorial explains how to serve the Icinga Web interface from an
nginx server on Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 11.10 (the tutorial might work for
Debian Squeeze as well but I didn't test; Squeeze's Icinga version is a
lot older than the versions for Wheezy and Ubuntu 11.10, so there might
be small differences). Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:33:37 +0100
Changing Apache Server Name To Whatever You Want With mod_security On Debian 6 In this tutorial I want to focus on how to change the Apache server name to whatever
you want, so you can give your own name or sentence to Apache server headers that
are sent to whois programs or websites, for example you can type "YTS","GWS" or
"Microsoft-IIS/7.0" to misguide the hacker to guess which Linux OS or which
version of Apache you are using. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:58:20 +0100
Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an
Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 (through PHP-FPM)
and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI
implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any
size, especially busier sites. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:32:51 +0100
Running The Latest Firefox Version On Debian Squeeze We all know that Debian is a production like GNU/Linux operating
system, thus the software available by default in the repository servers
is not always the newest version. I created this tutorial to help
those interested in running the latest version of the graphical Internet
browser Mozilla Firefox. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:45:20 +0100
Installing Opera Widgets On Ubuntu Unity Desktop (Ubuntu 11.10) Opera Widgets, unlike most other browser plugins, can be downloaded
to serve as browser-independent desktop widgets. These are managed
through Opera Widget Manager, so the Opera process remains open
(without running the browser). This tutorial explains how to use Opera Widgets as desktop widgets on Ubuntu 11.10. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:55:00 +0100
Kyle Rankin, author of Knoppix Hacks, has a Google Tech Talk presentation video detailing tricks for customizing Knoppix without going through the lengthy remastering process.
Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:06:54 +0000
OMG! Ubuntu! has an article covering additional uses for the Ubuntu LiveCD besides installation.
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:18:08 +0000
Lifehacker has a Top 10 list of cool stuff to do with a USB flash drive. Numbers 9, 7, and 1 involve Live booting operating systems from them.
Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:09:07 +0000
I’ll just get this out right now, I’ve fallen for Live USB drives. Yes, and if you haven’t yet, you will. What fills an entire CD, only fills 17% of a 4GB thumb drive (8% of an 8GB, 4% of a 16GB, 2% of a 32GB, and so on). And you don’t have to throw [...]
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:48:24 +0000
OMG! Ubuntu! is featuring Novo Builder, an easy to use LiveCD/DVD creation tool. via OMG! Ubuntu!
Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:07:50 +0000
TechRadar takes Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.10 and installs them on USB flash drives. You’ll need a flash drive with at least 1GB of free space, and ISO images of either Ubuntu 8.10 or Fedora 9. It’s likely there are other distros out there that work with similar or perhaps even identical instructions, but Ubuntu [...]
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:17:01 +0000
LinuxHaxor.net has a list of useful tasks for the GParted LiveCD. We all fill up our hard-drives from time to time, but thanks to Gnome GParted, rearranging disk partitions isn’t as terrifying as it used to be. In fact, armed with a GParted Live CD, there’s a swathe of disk space fiddling jobs I can [...]
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:01:40 +0000
The Defensive Computing blog at CNET News has a great introduction to LiveCDs and their practical uses. Now, another emphatic endorsement – all Windows users should have a Linux Live CD, and, know how to use it.
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:34:10 +0000
Highlighted by the latest Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (#88), there’s a great tutorial in the Ubuntu forums for transforming an Ubuntu install into a custom LiveCD/DVD. This HOWTO is about making a live CD/DVD from the main system on your hard drive. This might be desired if you have customized your system and want to have [...]
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:08:58 +0000
HowtoForge resets the root password of a Linux system with Knoppix.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:42:48 +0000
Ars Technica’s open source journal has news and links to running a modified Xubuntu 7.10 off a USB flash drive on an Eee laptop. The installer still works too, so installing permanently is an option.
Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:34:09 +0000
Red Hat Magazine has instructions for making a Fedora 8 bootable USB flash drive. I am writing this article on a Windows laptop borrowed from a friend. But fear not, dear reader, for I have not abandoned my free software principles. For while the hard disk of this laptop contains the Windows operating system, I [...]
Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:00:57 +0000
Lifehacker has a great set of instructions for using SystemRescueCD to create, move, and copy partitions on a normal PC.
Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:12:27 +0000
Linux.com has instructions for backing up partitions using GParted-Clonezilla. Backing up partitions and hard disks sounds like work — until youve tried Clonezilla. With Clonezilla you can clone and duplicate partitions of various formats and disks of various sizes locally or over the network. Even more impressive is the fact that you can do all [...]
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:09:38 +0000
Free Software Magazine takes us through the simple process of creating a custom LiveCD with the recently released Fedora 7. A few weeks ago, I promised to explain how to create your own custom live CD with Fedora’s new tools. Well, last week Fedora 7 was launched and all the tools you need are available [...]
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:50:08 +0000
HowtoForge walks through recovering data from a RAID 1 setup using Knoppix.
Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:55:44 +0000
Blogcritics.org goes over repartition a hard drive with the GParted LiveCD. “Okay, little Percival, let me tell you what partitioning was like in the old days. If you already had information on your hard drive, but wanted to re-partition it, all your data would be erased. There were programs available that would partition your drive [...]
Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:58 +0000
Tuxmachines.org has a howto for putting Knoppix on a USB flash drive and making it bootable. Of course, it can be even more portable when it runs entirely off of an inexpensive USB key. So let’s install it to a 1 GB USB key, and create a persistent home directory in which to store files. [...]
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:36:09 +0000
Debian/Ubuntu Tips & Tricks has step by step instructions for copying an Ubuntu LiveCD to a USB flash drive. In the end you get a bootable flash drive, which can be used for installing Ubuntu on a computer without a CD drive, or getting the LiveCD experience with something you can fit in your pocket.
Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:08:02 +0000
Running Simple Groupware On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can install and run Simple Groupware on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP).
Simple Groupware is an open source enterprise groupware that offers
email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, project
management, synchronization with Outlook and cell phones, full-text
search, extensions and many more. nginx is a HTTP server that uses much
less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster,
especially static files. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:26:36 +0100
How To Set Up A TOR Middlebox Routing All VirtualBox Virtual Machine Traffic Over The TOR Network This tutorial will show you how to reroute all traffic for a virtual
machine through the Tor network to ensure anonymity.
It assumes a standalone machine with a Linux OS, and VirtualBox
installed. In this case, we'll be using Ubuntu on the host machine. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:03:38 +0100
Installing Webuzo Wordpress Stack Webuzo Wordpress Stack is a free-quick-install package that allows
bundling of all software (dependency) necessary to run Wordpress for
development or production purposes. It includes the latest updated
version of Wordpress and is pre-configured and ready-to-run. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:19:39 +0100
Running ownCloud3 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can install and run ownCloud3 on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP).
ownCloud enables universal access to files through the widely
implemented WebDAV standard, providing a platform to easily view and
sync contacts, calendars and bookmarks across devices while supporting
sharing, viewing and editing via the web interface. It offers the
ease-of-use of Dropbox and box.net without vendor lock in. ownCloud
users can run its file sync and share services on their own hardware.
nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and
delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:25:39 +0100
Hardening Postfix For ISPConfig 3 The goal of this tutorial is to harden the mail server postfix used
by ISPConfig for internet mail servers where authenticated users are
trusted. With this setup you will reject a great amount of spam before
it passes into your mail queue, saving a lot of system resources and
making your mail server strong against spammers and spam botnets. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:25:59 +0100
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.2 x86_64) This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is
based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in
a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and
configuration of Courier, so that Courier
can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted
form in the database. In addition to that, this
tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV and SquirrelMail. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:54:18 +0100
The Perfect Database Server: Firebird 2.5.1 And FreeBSD 9 Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5.1 from FreeBSD 9 Ports
and
creating your first test database; also we show you how to install
Flamerobin GUI (administration tool) and the PHP driver for it. This was
tested on fresh FreeBSD 9 on a kvm-linux virtual machine. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:59:56 +0100
Virtualization With Xen On CentOS 6.2 (x86_64) (Paravirtualization & Hardware Virtualization) This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 4.1.2) on a CentOS 6.2 (x86_64) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0).
Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual
machines that are totally independent from each other, but still use the same hardware. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:36:11 +0100
Converting A VMware Image To A Physical Machine This tutorial shows how to convert an existing CentOS VM to a
Physical machine. This tutorial covers the cloning of the VM to an
unpartitioned HDD and troubleshoot some of the possible errors that you
may have booting the OS on your new hardware. To illustrate this
procedure I will use VMware Workstation 7 as the handler to transfer the
VM installation to a physical HDD. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:56:02 +0100
Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux) This article is about how to create a DVD image of your machine with the exact same software included on
the disk. This can be done using a software called Relinux.
Relinux is a fork of the recently discontinued Remastersys. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:21:34 +0100
Simple Linux Auditing Basic Linux system auditing is a bit tricky and data collected and
information of that is out of place and readability is not that good.
Recently this lead me to put together a Open Source code project and
develop simple BASH scripts that do the job nicely. The code and tar ball can be downloaded from both google code or from
SourceForge's website and the project website has links to
documentation, help, installation and code. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:12:15 +0100
Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12 Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot
from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint
12 alongside Windows 7 - the procedure however should be the same for
all Ubuntu based distributions and only slightly different for every
other. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:21:38 +0100
AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Postfix Mail Server This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linux/FreeBSD to a Postfix mail server.
It is usable for AVG version 8.5, 10 and 2012.
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:52:20 +0100
VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 11.10 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1
on a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI
to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop
environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called
VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a
remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:13:07 +0100
RedHat Cluster Suite And Conga - Linux Clustering This how to describes an easy step by step installation of the RedHat
Cluster Suite on three CentOS nodes and prepare them as nodes of a
cluster. You will also install the Management suite which is web based
and is known as Conga. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:13:46 +0100
The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.2 x86_64 With nginx [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.2 x86_64 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: nginx web server, Postfix mail
server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV,
Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full
support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial
covers the setup of a server that uses nginx, not Apache. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:00:36 +0100
How To Set Up Multi-Master Replication Using Tungsten And MySQL-Proxy For MySQL High Availability On Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS This tutorial is based on my experience setting up Tungsten Replicator and MySQL-Proxy for a client's production setup. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:01:08 +0100
Securing Your ISPConfig 3 Installation With A Free Class1 SSL Certificate From StartSSL This tutorial shows how you can use a free Class1 SSL Certificate from StartSSL
to secure your ISPConfig 3 installation and get rid of self-signed
certificate warnings. The guide covers using the SSL certificate for the
ISPConfig web interface (both Apache2 and nginx), Postfix (for TLS
connections), Courier and Dovecot (for POP3s and IMAPs), and PureFTPd
(for TLS/FTPES connections). If you've installed monit and use HTTPS for
its web interface, I will show you how to use the StartSSL certificate
for it as well. This guide assumes you use Debian or Ubuntu; the
principle is the same for other distributions supported by ISPConfig 3,
but paths might differ. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:50:17 +0100
Use Minitube To Watch YouTube Videos On Your Desktop (Linux Mint 11) This article is about how to watch YouTube videos on your desktop
with a tool called Minitube.
Minitube is a piece of software with a nice GUI that lets you enter
keywords into a searchbar just like on youtube.com to display a list
where you can choose your desired video from. It is then played
directly in the graphical interface without the need to install any
flash player for your browser or even open it. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:19:20 +0100
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 16 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a
Fedora 16 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:40:20 +0100
Installing An Oracle-Ready CentOS 6.2 Server This is a tutorial for installing an Oracle-ready Linux box with
CentOS 6.2, it covers the steps involved on the preparation of an
Oracle-ready server for the posterior installation of Oracle Database
Server/Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite on a multi-role server deployment. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:29:18 +0100
The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.2 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.2 x86_64 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
mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV,
Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full
support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial
covers the setup of a server that uses Apache, not nginx. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:37:36 +0100
Ubuntu 11.10 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Ubuntu 11.10 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
and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:18:58 +0100
Installing OpenVZ + Management Of VMs Through ISPConfig 3 (Debian 6.0) This tutorial describes the installation of an OpenVZ host server to
manage virtual machines from within the ISPConfig 3 hosting control
panel. OpenVZ is a lightweight virtualization technology for Linux
servers, similar to jails on *BSD systems. ISPConfig 3 contains a module to manage OpenVZ virtual
machines on the local server and on remote servers that run ISPConfig. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:36:21 +0100
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.1 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a
CentOS 6.1 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:42:56 +0100
Running TYPO3 4.6 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can install and run a TYPO3 (version 4.6) web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). The guide also covers the use of the nc_staticfilecache
extension which allows TYPO3 to cache pages as complete .html files for
faster delivery (increases response times for static pages by a factor
of 230; it's similar to Drupal's Boost module). nginx is a HTTP server
that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of
faster, especially static files. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:49:09 +0100
Web Filtering On Squid 3 With QuintoLabs Content Security 1.4 And
Windows Active Directory Integration This HOWTO will show you how to set up a Squid proxy server deployed on CentOS
or RedHat 6 Linux with web and content filtering done by QuintoLabs Content
Security with proxy users transparently authenticated by Windows 2008 R2
based Active Directory. This is the work in progress and all comments
are welcomed. The HOWTO is targeted at novice users and may sometimes seem
too thorough for more advanced gurus. No compilation magic will be involved
in our setup so any system administrator accustomed to Windows will be able
to easily follow the instructions. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:42:49 +0100
Introduction To The Enlightenment 17 Window Manager For X (Ubuntu 11.10) This tutorial is supposed to show some features of the Enlightenment window manager as an alternative to the often used Gnome and KDE managers. I will install Enlightenment on a desktop computer with Ubuntu
11.10 installed. Apart from the login screen however, all of the
controls shown on the screenshots should be the same for every
installation of enlightenment, whatever distribution you install it on.
Enlightenment is already included in the Ubuntu repositories, therefore
Ubuntu users and those of any Ubuntu derivatives won't have any
problems installing it. It is also available for download for most
other distributions though. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:06:11 +0100
How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management Console This guide provides an overview on how to monitor and manage
IPMI Management Console with Verax NMS. The Intelligent Platform Management Interface
(IPMI) is a standardized computer system interface used by system
administrators to manage a computer system and monitor its operation. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:44:05 +0100
Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.1 Nginx (pronounced
"engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx
is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and
low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx
on an OpenSUSE 12.1 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:52:02 +0100
Installing iRedMail And Mailman On Debian Squeeze I'm a big fan of iRedMail,
which is basically a packaged version of Postfix and the other bits
that make Postfix cool, like Spamassassin, greylisting and an LDAP or
MySql back-end. One thing I wanted with iRedMail is Mailman,
my favourite mailing list server. Integrating the two can be a mission
though, so here's some instruction to save you from quite a bit of pain. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:04:44 +0100
Configuring CAS On Ubuntu For Two-Factor Authentication With WiKID Single sign-on is a great technology. Requiring users to login to
multiple applications is huge hassle, encourages password reuse and
simple passwords. Security needs to focus on usability. If you can
make a user's life better while increasing security, everybody wins. In this how-to we will set up the open-source CAS SSO product with the WiKID Strong Authentication Server for two-factor authentication for sessions and mutual https authentication
for host authentication. Obviously using two-factor authentication
for the login increases security because the user must have the factors
to get access, in this case, knowledge of the PIN and possession of the
private key embedded in the token. The CAS server is running on Ubuntu 11.04 Server and is using Radius
to talk to the WiKID Strong Authentication Server Enterprise Edition. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:32:26 +0100
The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.1 x86_64 With nginx [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.1 x86_64 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: nginx web server, Postfix mail
server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV,
Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full
support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial
covers the setup of a server that uses nginx, not Apache. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:50:36 +0100
How To Install RoundCube 0.7 For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Squeeze This will guide you thru the installation of the latest stable
version of RoundCube (currently version 0.7) and get it to work together
with ISPConfig 3. This guide should work for most Linux distributions but may differ on some parts. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:14:24 +0100
The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.1 x86_64 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
mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV,
Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full
support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial
covers the setup of a server that uses Apache, not nginx. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:07:14 +0100
SQUID Proxy On RHEL5/CentOS - Everything That You Should Know About [Part 1] The main feature or duty of a proxy server could be a gateway that receives
HTTP requests from clients and forwards the request to the destination and relays the answer back to the requestor. Squid is most popular open-source software that brings this to us. It
also has
some excellent features for doing something else such as web access
controlling,
bandwidth controlling, restriction policies, and content caching and
filtering. Actually people install SQUID to pursuit 2 goals: first
reduce the bandwidth
charges by content caching and second for restricting access to
particular
contents. The following guide explains advantages of using Squid and will show you how to
install, configure, control, and maintain the Squid Proxy Server on
RHEL5 and CentOS Linux. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:12:44 +0100
Setting Up Unison File Synchronization Between Two Servers On Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how to set up file synchronization between two Ubuntu 11.10 servers with Unison.
Unison is a file-synchronization tool similar to rsync, but the big
difference is that it tracks/synchronizes changes in both directions,
i.e., files changed on server1 will be replicated to server2 and vice
versa. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:59:43 +0100
Finding Out Package Dependencies With apt-rdepends On Debian/Ubuntu Sometimes you need to find out all the dependencies of a package.
This tutorial explains how to use apt-rdepends to recursively list all
dependencies of a Debian/Ubuntu package. Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:47:40 +0100
Linux Partitioning Schemes
Fourth article in series of Linux+ Certification articles/tutorials. In this installment, the Linux partitioning schemes, LVM and RAID, will be discussed and contrasted in order to understand under what conditions and circumstances each would be most appropriately applied to a storage solution. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0000
In this second article of this Linux+ certification study series, Linux Installation Choices, the different choices of installation media, physical vs. network installs, were compared and contrasted. The choice of installation methods is another important decision facing either the new Linux user or the Linux consultant working for a client probably in the midst of trying-out Linux as a Windows replacement. Which method you use will have both time horizon impacts (time frame), and performance issues for both the installer and the ultimate end-user of successful Linux installation. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0000
Lighttpd ( or Lighty ) is a free, opensource webserver. It is known for its performance, speed and simple configuration. Sites like YouTube and Wikipedia are powered by Lighttpd. People generally use it for delivering static content.
In this tutorial, we will learn to setup Lighttpd with PHP5 support on Ubuntu 9.10 (though this should work for distros with their respective package managers). Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:03:44 +0000
In the field of mathematical software packages, applications such as Wolfram Research's Mathematica, and Maplesoft's Maple system instantly spring to mind. These are both highly popular, proprietary, commercial, integrated mathematical software environments. Other types of mathematical software packages generally receive much less publicity. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0000
Yesterday I wrote about converting HTML to Pdf using Python and Qt. In this writeup, we will try to do it with Java. I have used QtJambi (Qt bindings for Java). Again we will make use to webkit for rendering HTML page. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:20:10 +0000
Save time and gain functionality by starting your GUI apps from the command line. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:56:45 +0000
In my recent project I wanted to convert the HTML page to Pdf. There are many HTML to Pdf convertion libraries available like tcpdf, fpdf (doesnt convert HTML to Pdf) in PHP. Tried using tcpdf for some time but it was very limited.
Then decided why not utilize Webkit. Webkit is a part of Qt library too. We then started looking at PyQT. And it works really well :) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:37:15 +0000
In Linux operating system, myrescue is an utility to retrieve still-readable information from damaged hard drive. This Linux Data Recovery tool is similar to the dd_rescue, however it attempts to quickly get out of corrupted area to handle undamaged part first. After extracting data from the undamaged area, the utility then returns to the damaged area and tries to fix it. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0000
One of the most popular questions received at Linux.com are variants of one simple query: "what's the best Linux distribution for me?" To help users discover the Linux distribution that's best for them, this resource will definitively list the best candidates for the various types of Linux users to try. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:11:33 +0000
Are you unable to mount your Linux hard drive volume? The problem could be due to corruption the Linux hard drive data structures. To sort out such problems, Linux provides fsck utility. It is a command-line utility, which checks integrity and consistency of Linux file system, finds errors, and tries to fix them. However, in case if you run this utility on a mounted or online file system, you may come across catastrophic data loss situations. At this point, you need to carry out Linux Data Recovery to get your valuable data back. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:58:36 +0000
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