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".
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Run Your Own Webradio Station With Icecast2 And Ices2
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: other, debian, ubuntu • Comments: 25Run Your Own Webradio Station With Icecast2 And Ices2 This tutorial describes how to set up an audio streaming server with Icecast2. In order that Icecast2 can stream audio to listeners we install Ices2. Ices2 is a program that sends audio data to an Icecast2 server to broadcast to clients. Ices2 can either read audio data from disk (Ogg Vorbis files), or sample live audio from a sound card and encode it on the fly. In this article we will let Ices2 read .ogg files from the local hard disk.
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How To Search For Missing Packages With apt-file On Debian and Ubuntu
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, ubuntu • Comments: 1How To Search For Missing Packages With apt-file On Debian and Ubuntu This short article describes how you can search for missing packages with apt-file on Debian and Ubuntu systems. apt-file allows you to search for a file name, and it gives back the name(s) of the package(s) containing that file so that you can install the appropriate package.
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Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Debian/Ubuntu
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: antivirus, security • Comments: 5Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Debian/UbuntuThis tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails. FuzzyOCR tries to keep the system load low by scanning only mails that have not already been categorized as spam by SpamAssassin, thus avoiding unnecessary work.
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Back Up Linux And Windows Systems With BackupPC
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Comments: 12 Back Up Linux And Windows Systems With BackupPC This tutorial shows how you can back up Linux and Windows systems with BackupPC. BackupPC acts as a server and is installed on a Linux system, and from there it can connect to all Linux and Windows systems in your local network to back them up and restore them without interfering with the user's work on that system. On the clients minimal to no configuration is needed. BackupPC supports full and incremental backups, and it comes with a neat web frontend for the administrator and normal user so that backups and recoveries can be managed through a web browser. It should be noted, however, that BackupPC does file-based backups, not bit-wise backups like Ghost4Linux, for example, so it is not made for disk/partition imaging.
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Setting Up A News-Voting Website With Pligg
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, php • Comments: 2Setting Up A News-Voting Website With Pligg This article shows how to set up your own news-voting website with Pligg. Pligg is a content-management system published under the Affero General Public License, and it is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database for storing its data. With a little work you can create your own community and let users vote news to the front page.
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Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, other • Comments: 13Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data This article shows how you can modify the partitioning of your Linux system with GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) without losing data. This includes resizing partitions (enlarging and shrinking), moving partitions on the hard drive, creating and deleting partitions, and even modifying filesystem types. GParted is a free partition editor available as a desktop program and also as a Live-CD. It supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, reiserfs, reiser4, ufs, xfs, and even ntfs (Windows).
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Installing The Native Linux Flash Player 9 On Ubuntu
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 5Installing The Native Linux Flash Player 9 On Ubuntu This article describes how to install the new native Linux Flash Player 9 from Adobe on an Ubuntu Edgy Eft desktop so that it can be used within Firefox. The procedure works for other Ubuntu versions and Debian as well.
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How To Automatically Scan Uploaded Files For Viruses With php-clamavlib
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: php, antivirus • Comments: 2How To Automatically Scan Uploaded Files For Viruses With php-clamavlib This guide describes how you can automatically scan files uploaded by users through a web form on your server using PHP and ClamAV. That way you can make sure that your upload form will not be abused to distribute malware. To glue PHP and ClamAV, we install the package php5-clamavlib/php4-clamavlib which is rather undocumented at this time. That package is available for Debian Etch and Sid and also for Ubuntu Dapper Drake and Edgy Eft, so make sure you use one of these platforms.
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Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With Ghost4Linux
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup • Comments: 2Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With Ghost4Linux This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with Ghost4Linux. Ghost4Linux is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar to Norton Ghost. The created images are compressed and transferred to an FTP server instead of cloning locally.
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How To Resize ext3 Partitions Without Losing Data
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, other • Comments: 64How To Resize ext3 Partitions Without Losing Data This article is about resizing ext3 partitions without losing data. It shows how to shrink and enlarge existing ext3 partitions and how to merge two ext3 partitions. This can be quite useful if you do not use LVM and you realize that your existing partitioning does not meet your actual needs anymore.
