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".

• How To Enable NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 1

  How To Enable NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions.

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• Virus Protection With AVG Antivirus On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, security, ubuntu • Comments: 10

  Virus Protection With AVG Antivirus On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn This tutorial shows how you can install and use AVG Antivirus on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop. Although there aren't many Linux viruses out there, this can be useful if you often exchange files with Windows users - it can help you to not pass on any Windows viruses (that don't do any harm to Linux systems) to Windows users. AVG Antivirus for Linux is free for private and non-commercial use.

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• Chrooted SSH/SFTP Tutorial (Debian Etch)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: security, debian • Comments: 14

  Chrooted SSH/SFTP Tutorial (Debian Etch) This tutorial describes two ways how to give users chrooted SSH access. With this setup, you can give your users shell access without having to fear that they can see your whole system. Your users will be jailed in a specific directory which they will not be able to break out of. The users will also be able to use SFTP in their chroot jails.

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• How To Set Up A Facebook RSS Feed Reader Application For Your Blog

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: php • Comments: 6

  How To Set Up A Facebook RSS Feed Reader Application For Your Blog This guide shows how you can build an RSS feed reader application for the social network Facebook that will display your blog's/web site's RSS feed on the profile pages of Facebook users (that have installed the RSS feed reader application). Each item of the RSS feed will have a Share button so that people can share the story with their friends, and the application will have an Invite link so that people can invite up to ten friends at once to also install this feed reader application. I will use PHP5 to build the RSS feed reader application. To parse the RSS feed and generate HTML from it, I will use Magpie RSS.

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• How To Enable NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Mandriva 2007 Spring

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, mandriva • Comments: 1

  How To Enable NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Mandriva 2007 Spring Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on a Mandriva 2007 Spring desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions.

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• How To Enable NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On PCLinuxOS

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, pclinuxos • Comments: 0

  How To Enable NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On PCLinuxOS Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on a PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions.

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• How To Use NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Fedora 7

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, fedora • Comments: 0

  How To Use NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Fedora 7 Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to use ntfs-3g on a Fedora 7 desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions.

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• Installing Simple Invoices On Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, php • Comments: 2

  Installing Simple Invoices On Debian Etch This tutorial describes how to install Simple Invoices on a Debian Etch server. Simple Invoices is a web-based, basic invoicing system that lets you create and manage your invoices, export them as PDF or Excel files, email them to your customers, etc. It is intended for small businesses/organizations and home users.

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• How To Implement SPF In Postfix

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: postfix, antivirus • Comments: 18

  How To Implement SPF In Postfix This tutorial shows how to implement SPF (Sender Policy Framework) in a Postfix 2.x installation. The Sender Policy Framework is an open standard specifying a technical method to prevent sender address forgery. There are lots of SPF extensions and patches available for Postfix, but most require that you recompile Postfix. Therefore we will install the postfix-policyd-spf-perl package from openspf.org which is a Perl package and can be implemented in existing Postfix installations (no Postfix compilation required).

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• How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On OpenSuSE 10.2

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: php, security, suse • Comments: 0

  How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On OpenSuSE 10.2 This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on an OpenSuSE 10.2 server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core, that implements a few low-level protections against buffer overflows or format string vulnerabilities and the second part is a powerful PHP extension that implements all the other protections."

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