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How to use Stellarium's Oculars plugin to match your optics
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: desktop •
Comments: 5 The Stellarium virtual planetarium is one of the most widely used open source specialized tools in the world. It features a captivating dome that counts over 600000 starts, hundreds of constellations and asterisms, planets with their moons and realistic sky effects like atmospheric scattering, shooting stars and supernovae simulation. It can serve as an educational tool, telescope guidance software, position calculator, or even as a rendered for fish-eye projection on domes.
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How to monitor CentOS and Ubuntu servers with Pandora FMS
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: centos, linux, monitoring, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 Pandora FMS (Pandora Flexible Monitoring System) is a flexible and highly scalable monitoring software for networks, servers, applications and virtual environments. In this tutorial I will show you how to install Pandora FMS Server on CentOS 7 and how to add a monitoring agent on Ubuntu 15.04.
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How to install PHP 7 (PHP-FPM & FastCGI) for ISPConfig 3 on Debian 8 (Jessie)
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: apache, control panels, debian, ispconfig, linux, nginx, php, web server •
Comments: 18 This tutorial shows how to build the new PHP 7 (Beta) as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on Debian 8 (Jessie). PHP 7 is up to 2 times faster then php 5.6 and 14 times faster then php 5.0 according to the release notes.
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How to install and set up multiple chess engines on XBoard
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: arch linux, centos, debian, desktop, fedora, linux, suse, ubuntu •
Comments: 2 XBoard is an open source graphical chess interface that was made to be compatible with the X window system and that can accept mouse moves, support countless chess engines and even allow the playing of chess variations. It can also serve as a front-end for local game analysis, net server based games, or even email chess (auto-parsing of received mail moves and auto-sending of mail when move is done).
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How to monitor free disk space at Amazon EC2 with Cloud Watch
Author: Matteo Temporini •
Tags: cloud, debian, linux, ubuntu, virtualization •
Comments: 4 Amazon AWS is a great platform to develop a Cloud Infrastrucutre, it supposedly covers every aspect that is needed for a whole IT infrastructure and provides also a nice monitoring tool named Cloud Watch. Today I will show you how to monitor free disk space with Cloud watch.
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How to secure your PDF documents with passwords (and how to crack them if needed)
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: centos, debian, desktop, opensuse, security, suse, ubuntu •
Comments: 9 Documents safety is a particularly sensitive matter due to the typical usage nature and possible value and importance of the contents. That said, users should be extra careful when sharing documents that shouldn't be leaked to other parties.
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Linux Basics - Static IP and Network Configuration on Debian Linux
Author: howtoforge •
Tags: debian, linux •
Comments: 8 Linux Basics - Static IP and Network Configuration in Debian Linux This guide explains how to configure static IP address, dns configuration and hostname on debian based Linux distributions on the shell. It will be same in server & desktop. 1 Preliminary Note Suppose you are working in a data center or company and your boss puts a dumb debian server setup and you need to configure it in the running environment. Yes it is little painstaking, but not very tough task. In my case I have a dumb debian server which was installed by someone in his networking environment and I want to make it functional in my static IP environment. Suppose I have a vacant IP 192.168.0.100 and I will implement it in my environment. My IP details are as follows:
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How to Install Proftpd with TLS on Ubuntu 15.04
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: ftp, linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 This article describes the installation of Proftpd with TLS on Ubuntu 15.04. FTP is a insecure protocol as passwords and data are transferred unencrypted. The whole communication can be encrypted by using TLS, thus making FTP a safe protocol to transfer files. This tutorial shows you how to setup a TLS enabled FTP server on Ubuntu.
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ISPConfig 3: Automated installation on Debian
Author: Matteo Temporini •
Tags: apache, bind, control panels, debian, dns, dovecot, ispconfig, linux, mysql, nginx, php, postfix, server, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 69 As you might know, ISPConfig is one of the best free opensource hosting control panels available to manage linux servers in single and multi server environments. This tutorial explains how to deploy and install this amazing contol panel with ispconfig_setup script.
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How to record from JACK with Ardour on Linux
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: centos, desktop, fedora, opensuse, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 With all the madness that prevails the Linux audio engines and complex inter-related frameworks and subsystems, it is very easy to get lost and overwhelmed when you want to do something as simple as to record yourself playing an electric musical instrument. Recording from JACK is imperative in that case, as using a “mic to speaker” arrangement will introduce unwanted noise to the recording, no matter what.
