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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Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (OpenSUSE 12.2)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: security, storage, suse •
Comments: 1 Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (OpenSUSE 12.2) EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on OpenSUSE 12.2 to encrypt your data.
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Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Fedora 17)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, security •
Comments: 0 Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Fedora 17) EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Fedora 17 to encrypt your data.
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How To Install XFCE On Linux Mint 14
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 8 How To Install XFCE On Linux Mint 14 XFCE is a lightweight desktop environment. For Linux Mint 13, the was an XFCE edition in addition to the Cinnamon and Mate editions, but for Linux Mint 14, there isn't. This short guide explains how to install XFCE on your Linux Mint 14 desktop.
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How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, security, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an Ubuntu 12.10 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.
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The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 12.10 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. Please note that Ubuntu Studio 12.10 uses XFCE as the default desktop environment.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, ubuntu •
Comments: 2 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. This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 12.10.
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Running concrete5 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, nginx, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 0 This tutorial shows how you can install and run a concrete5 web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files. concrete5 is a free and open-source content management system (CMS).
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Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Ubuntu 12.10)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: security, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Ubuntu 12.10) EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Ubuntu 12.10 to encrypt your data.
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How To Upgrade From Linux Mint 13 (Maya) To 14 (Nadia) With apt
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 17 This tutorial shows how you can upgrade from Linux Mint 13 (Maya) to Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) with apt. Please note that this is not the recommended way, and it might break your system, however, for me it worked fine.
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A Beginner's Guide To btrfs
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 9A Beginner's Guide To btrfs This guide shows how to work with the btrfs file system on Linux. It covers creating and mounting btrfs file systems, resizing btrfs file systems online, adding and removing devices, changing RAID levels, creating subvolumes and snapshots, using compression and other things. btrfs is still marked as experimental, but all those features make it a very interesting and flexible file system that should be taken into consideration when you look for the right file system.
