Articles by Falko Timme

About Falko Timme

Falko Timme is an experienced Linux administrator and founder of Timme Hosting, a leading nginx business hosting company in Germany. He is one of the most active authors on HowtoForge since 2005 and one of the core developers of ISPConfig since 2000. He has also contributed to the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration".

• The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 6

  The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.04 This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 9.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the 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 that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Kubuntu 9.04 is derived from Ubuntu 9.04 and uses the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME desktop.

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• The Perfect Desktop - gOS 3.1 Gadgets

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 2

  The Perfect Desktop - gOS 3.1 Gadgets This tutorial shows how you can set up a gOS 3.1 Gadgets desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the 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 that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. gOS is a lightweight Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu 8.04, that comes with Google Apps and some other Web 2.0 applications; gOS 3.1 Gadgets uses the GNOME desktop.

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• Creating Screencasts With recordMyDesktop On Ubuntu 9.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 2

  Creating Screencasts With recordMyDesktop On Ubuntu 9.04 recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for GNU/Linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at its primary task. It produces files using only open formats. These are theora for video and vorbis for audio, using the ogg container. This tutorial shows how to install and use recordMyDesktop on Ubuntu 9.04.

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• Installing "Sugar on a stick" (Strawberry Release) On A USB Stick

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 4

  Installing "Sugar on a stick" (Strawberry Release) On A USB Stick Sugar is the desktop environment that is used for the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) netbooks. It can also be installed on normal computers and even run off of a USB stick (which should have at least 1GB of size). This guide shows how you can install Sugar (the Strawberry release which is based on Fedora 11) on a USB stick.

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• Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Debian Lenny

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, ftp • Comments: 3

  Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Debian Lenny FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on a Debian Lenny server.

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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04 (LAMP)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, mysql, php, ubuntu • Comments: 8

  Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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• Creating Snapshot-Backups with BackerUpper On Ubuntu 9.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup, desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 3

  Creating Snapshot-Backups with BackerUpper On Ubuntu 9.04 BackerUpper is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive. From the BackerUpper project page: "Backerupper is a simple program for backing up selected directories over a local network. Its main intended purpose is backing up a user's personal data." This article shows how to install and use BackerUpper on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

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• Monitoring Network Latency With Smokeping (Ubuntu 9.04)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, monitoring • Comments: 12

  Monitoring Network Latency With Smokeping (Ubuntu 9.04) This guide shows how to install and configure Smokeping on Ubuntu 9.04 to monitor network latency. From the Smokeping web site: "SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network connection."

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• Setting Up A High-Availability Load Balancer (With Failover and Session Support) With HAProxy/Heartbeat On Debian Lenny

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, high-availability • Comments: 4

  Setting Up A High-Availability Load Balancer (With Failover and Session Support) With HAProxy/Heartbeat On Debian Lenny This article explains how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with HAProxy and heartbeat on Debian Lenny. The load balancer sits between the user and two (or more) backend Apache web servers that hold the same content. Not only does the load balancer distribute the requests to the two backend Apache servers, it also checks the health of the backend servers. If one of them is down, all requests will automatically be redirected to the remaining backend server. In addition to that, the two load balancer nodes monitor each other using heartbeat, and if the master fails, the slave becomes the master, which means the users will not notice any disruption of the service. HAProxy is session-aware, which means you can use it with any web application that makes use of sessions (such as forums, shopping carts, etc.).

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• Installing Moovida Media Center On Ubuntu 9.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 3

  Installing Moovida Media Center On Ubuntu 9.04 This tutorial explains how you can install the Moovida media center on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. Moovida is a media center "bringing the best of the internet to your TV screen. Automatically creating your own digital library you can browse from your sofa with a remote control. The elegant and easy to use interface automatically displays artwork and fan art throughtout and gives you access to movie synopsis and artist info."

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