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Monitoring Debian Servers Using Monit

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. Full Story

Setup Maxemum TV-Guide in Ubuntu

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

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Maxemum TV-Guide is a KDE TV-guide. It is developed in C++, based on QT/KDE and uses XMLTV as it’s back end to grab listings. At present there are back ends grabbing TV listings for Australia, Belgium and Luxemburg, Brazil, Britain and Ireland, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary and Romania, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, North [...]

Ubuntu Studio Screenshots Tour

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

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Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu. It’s built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional.Ubuntu Studio is an unofficial derivative of the Ubuntu open source operating system, based on Ubuntu, which is explicitly geared to general multimedia production. Full Story

Create and Extract .gz,.bz2 Files in Debian

Thursday, June 21, 2007

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bzip2 and bunzip2 are file compression and decompression utilities. The bzip2 and bunzip2 utilities are newer than gzip and gunzip and are not as common yet, but they are rapidly gaining popularity. The bzip2 utility is capable of greater compression ratios than gzip. Therefore, a bzip2 file can be 10-20% smaller than a gzip version [...]

How to install Vmware server From Canonical commercial repository in Ubuntu Feisty

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

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VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers with enterprise-class support and VirtualCenter management. VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use server virtualization product and is based on proven virtualization technology, which has been used by thousands of customers for more than six years Full Story

SMPlayer – Nice Frontend for MPlayer

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. Full Story

Xubuntu 7.04(Feisty Fawn) Screenshots Tour

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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Xubuntu is a complete GNU/Linux based operating system with an Ubuntu base. It is lighter on system requirements and tends to be more efficient than Ubuntu with GNOME or KDE, since it uses the Xfce Desktop environment, which makes itideal for old or low-end machines, thin-client networks, or for those who would like to get [...]

Web,Streaming,ftp or mail server Logs analyzer Using Awstats

Thursday, June 7, 2007

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AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics,graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large [...]

Azureus – A Nice Java BitTorrent Client

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

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Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users. Azureus offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. Azureus now features an embedded tracker easily set up [...]

Fixing a scanner broken by the Feisty upgrade

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

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If you have been using a USB scanner and upgrade from Edgy to Feisty, you may find that your scanner no longer works. You can use this fix to solve your scanner problem. Full Story

Filesystem Encryption Tools for Linux

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

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Crypto filesystems keep your data safe even if someone steals your computer. Linux offers a number of encrypted filesystem options, each with a different approach to the encryption problem. Encrypted filesystems may be overkill for family photos or your resume, but they make sense for network-accessible servers that hold sensitive business documents, databases that contain [...]

Howto Setup Dual Monitors with Nvidia in Ubuntu

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

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This tutorial explains how to setup Dual Monitors with Nvidia in Ubuntu. Itâ€™s quite a pain to get dual monitors working your first time using Linux, however I hope this guide will make the process relatively quick and painless.

Howto Change Default text editor in Debian Etch

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

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By default Debian Etch Provides the nano editor you need to follow this procedure. In this example I want to use vi editor as my default editor.This is Very useful if you want to change Default editor to your own choice. Full Story

How to Increase ext3 and ReiserFS filesystems Performance in Linux

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

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This tutorial explains how to increase ext3 and ReiserFS filesystems Performance in Linux.The ext3 or third extended filesystem is a journalled file system that is commonly used by the Linux operating system. It is the default file system for many popular Linux distributions Full Story

Ubuntu 7.04(Feisty Fawn) Screenshots Tour

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

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Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.The most recent version, Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), was released on April 19, 2007. Full Story

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