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 Add A Splash Image To GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ubuntu •
Comments: 4 How To Add A Splash Image To GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04 This tutorial shows how you can add a splash image to your GRUB 2 boot loader on Ubuntu 9.04. Please note that you should use this tutorial only if you have upgraded your bootloader to GRUB 2 previously.
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How To Install GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ubuntu •
Comments: 19 How To Install GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04 This tutorial shows how you can upgrade your GRUB bootloader to GRUB 2 on Ubuntu 9.04. GRUB 2 has been rewritten from scratch to clean up everything for modularity and portability.
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How To Enable Adobe's Flash Player In Google Chrome (Ubuntu 9.04)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ubuntu, desktop •
Comments: 39 How To Enable Adobe's Flash Player In Google Chrome (Ubuntu 9.04) This tutorial explains how you can install the Google Chrome browser on Ubuntu 9.04 and how to enable the Adobe Flash plugin in it. Please note that Google Chrome for Ubuntu is still in alpha state and should not be used on production systems.
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Creating Backups With Back In Time On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: backup, desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 3 Creating Backups With Back In Time On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop This tutorial explains how to install and use Back In Time on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from "flyback project" and "TimeVault". The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories.
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Installing The Sugar Desktop Environment On Ubuntu 9.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Installing The Sugar Desktop Environment On Ubuntu 9.04 Sugar is the desktop environment that is used for the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) netbooks. It can also be installed on normal computers. This guide shows how you can install Sugar on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop.
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Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, ftp •
Comments: 12 Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Debian Lenny This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup.
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Creating Backups With luckyBackup On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: backup, desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 5 Creating Backups With luckyBackup On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop This tutorial explains how to install and use luckyBackup on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. luckyBackup is an application for data back-up and synchronization powered by the rsync tool. It is simple to use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all data), safe (keeps your data safe by checking all declared directories before proceeding in any data manipulation ), reliable and fully customizable.
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Clean Up Your Desktop With Computer Janitor On Ubuntu 9.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 Clean Up Your Desktop With Computer Janitor On Ubuntu 9.04 Computer Janitor is a tool that lets you clean up a system so it's more like a freshly installed one. Computer Janitor deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space. This tutorial shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, ftp •
Comments: 3 Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Debian Lenny This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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Monitoring Multiple Log Files At A Time With MultiTail On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, monitoring •
Comments: 0 Monitoring Multiple Log Files At A Time With MultiTail On Debian Lenny MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor a complete directory of files. Merging of two or even more log files is possible.
