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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The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 9 (Isadora)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 7 The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 9 (Isadora) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 9 (Isadora) 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. Linux Mint 9 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 10.04 that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience even for Linux newbies.
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The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 10.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 10.04 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.
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How To Upgrade Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) To 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 How To Upgrade Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) To 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) The new Kubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) has just been released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Kubuntu 9.10 desktop installation to Kubuntu 10.04.
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The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 39 This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 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.
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How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On OpenSUSE 11.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, security, suse •
Comments: 0 How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On OpenSUSE 11.2 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an OpenSUSE 11.2 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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How To Upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) To 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) (Desktop & Server)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 How To Upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) To 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) (Desktop & Server) Yesterday the new Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) was released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 9.10 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 10.04.
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Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, debian •
Comments: 1 Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Debian Lenny This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on a Debian Lenny server. 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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How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Fedora 12
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, ftp, security •
Comments: 0 How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Fedora 12 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a Fedora 12 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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Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Ubuntu 9.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Ubuntu 9.10 This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. 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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The Perfect Desktop - PCLinuxOS 2010 (KDE)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, pclinuxos •
Comments: 10 The Perfect Desktop - PCLinuxOS 2010 (KDE) This tutorial shows how you can set up a PCLinuxOS 2010 desktop (with KDE) 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.
