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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How To Take A Screenshot Of Your Login Screen
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, linux •
Comments: 7 How To Take A Screenshot Of Your Login Screen Normally you use a screenshot tool to take screenshots of your Linux desktop. Unfortunately, this doesn't work if you want to take a screenshot of your login prompt. This tutorial explains how you can take a screenshot of your Linux desktop login screen nevertheless.
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VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless CentOS 5.6 Server
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, virtualbox, virtualization •
Comments: 2 VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless CentOS 5.6 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0 on a headless CentOS 5.6 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.
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Using Apache2 Content Negotiation To Serve Different Languages
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, debian, web server •
Comments: 0 Using Apache2 Content Negotiation To Serve Different Languages Content negotiation is the ability of a web server to deliver the document that best matches the browser's preferences/capabilities. For example, if a resource exists in multiple languages, the web server can choose which variant it serves based on the Accept-Language header delivered by the browser. This tutorial describes how to configure content negotiation in Apache2 to serve different languages based on browser preferences.
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How To Configure Automatic Updates On Debian Squeeze
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian •
Comments: 2 How To Configure Automatic Updates On Debian Squeeze This tutorial shows how to configure a Debian Squeeze system to have package updates installed automatically without user interaction. In addition to that I will show you what needs to be done to have the system email you about available updates on a daily basis.
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How To Encrypt Directories/Partitions With eCryptfs On Debian Squeeze
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, security, storage •
Comments: 16 How To Encrypt Directories/Partitions With eCryptfs On Debian Squeeze eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. You can use it to encrypt partitions and also directories that don't use a partition of their own, no matter the underlying filesystem, partition type, etc. This tutorial shows how to use eCryptfs to encrypt a directory on Debian Squeeze.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 15 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 3 Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 15 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 15 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver. nouveau is an accelerated Open Source driver for NVIDIA cards that comes with experimental 3D support on Fedora 15 - on my test system 3D support was working without any problems.
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How To Run Your Own DNS Servers (Primary And Secondary) With ISPConfig 3 (Debian Squeeze)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: dns, debian, control panels, bind, ispconfig •
Comments: 36 How To Run Your Own DNS Servers (Primary And Secondary) With ISPConfig 3 (Debian Squeeze) This tutorial shows how you can run your own DNS servers (primary and secondary) with ISPConfig 3. To do this, you need two servers with two different public IP addresses and with ISPConfig 3 installed. I will use Debian Squeeze for both DNS servers here to demonstrate the base system setup process and ISPConfig 3 installation, but once you have ISPConfig 3 installed on your servers, the configuration inside ISPConfig 3 is identical, no matter what distribution you use.
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How To Install And Configure Mailman (With Postfix) On Debian Squeeze
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: postfix, debian, email •
Comments: 6 How To Install And Configure Mailman (With Postfix) On Debian Squeeze Mailman is an open-source mailing list manager, i.e., it can be used to manage email discussions and newsletter lists. It is probably the most popular and widely used mailing list manager on the Internet. This tutorial explains how to install and configure Mailman on a Debian Squeeze server with a Postfix mail server.
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.0 (LAMP)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, centos, mysql, php, web server •
Comments: 1 Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.0 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.0 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 11.4 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, suse •
Comments: 0 Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 11.4 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an OpenSUSE 11.4 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
