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Running The Latest Firefox Version On Debian Squeeze

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:45:20 +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.

Installing Opera Widgets On Ubuntu Unity Desktop (Ubuntu 11.10)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:55:00 +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.

How To Set Up A TOR Middlebox Routing All VirtualBox Virtual Machine Traffic Over The TOR Network

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:03:38 +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.

Running Simple Groupware On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:26:36 +0100

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.

Installing Webuzo Wordpress Stack

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:19:39 +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.

Running ownCloud3 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:25:39 +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.

Hardening Postfix For ISPConfig 3

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:25:59 +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.

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.2 x86_64)

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:54:18 +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.

Virtualization With Xen On CentOS 6.2 (x86_64) (Paravirtualization & Hardware Virtualization)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:36:11 +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.

Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux)

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:21:34 +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.

Simple Linux Auditing

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:12:15 +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 led 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.

Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:21:38 +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.

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Postfix Mail Server

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:52:20 +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.

VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 11.10 Server

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:13:07 +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.

RedHat Cluster Suite And Conga - Linux Clustering

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:13:46 +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.