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Running The Latest Firefox Version On Debian Squeeze
Author: jairzhino •
Tags: debian, desktop •
Comments: 12 Running The Latest Firefox Version On Debian Squeeze We all know that Debian is a production like GNU/Linux operating system, thus the software available by default in the repository servers is not always the newest version. I created this tutorial to help those interested in running the latest version of the graphical Internet browser Mozilla Firefox.
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Installing Opera Widgets On Ubuntu Unity Desktop (Ubuntu 11.10)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Installing Opera Widgets On Ubuntu Unity Desktop (Ubuntu 11.10) Opera Widgets, unlike most other browser plugins, can be downloaded to serve as browser-independent desktop widgets. These are managed through Opera Widget Manager, so the Opera process remains open (without running the browser). This tutorial explains how to use Opera Widgets as desktop widgets on Ubuntu 11.10.
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How To Set Up A TOR Middlebox Routing All VirtualBox Virtual Machine Traffic Over The TOR Network
Author: chris_dj • Tags: linux, security, ubuntu • Comments: 25How To Set Up A TOR Middlebox Routing All VirtualBox Virtual Machine Traffic Over The TOR Network This tutorial will show you how to reroute all traffic for a virtual machine through the Tor network to ensure anonymity. It assumes a standalone machine with a Linux OS, and VirtualBox installed. In this case, we'll be using Ubuntu on the host machine.
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Running Simple Groupware On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, nginx, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 3 Running Simple Groupware On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can install and run Simple Groupware on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). Simple Groupware is an open source enterprise groupware that offers email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, project management, synchronization with Outlook and cell phones, full-text search, extensions and many more. nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.
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Extending Perfect Server - Debian Squeeze [ISPConfig 3]
Author: 8omas •
Tags: security, other, backup, debian, ispconfig •
Comments: 32 Extending Perfect Server - Debian Squeeze [ISPConfig 3] The following tutorial will extend the "Perfect Server.... " for ISPConfig 3 with BIND & Courier installed in Debian Squeeze. It explains how to change default ports (ssh, ispconfig, webmin), how to install some useful applications (webmin, roundcube, atop, htop, multitail, tiger etc), how to update awstats periodically (more than once a day) or whenever you want, how to create clients' data backups (periodically) accessible under their folder and finally it explains how to tweak your system for performance (mysqltuner, tuning-primer) or security (custom firewall rules, (D)Dos Deflate, fail2ban modified).
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Installing Webuzo Wordpress Stack
Author: Jose25 • Tags: apache, linux • Comments: 0Installing Webuzo Wordpress Stack Webuzo Wordpress Stack is a free-quick-install package that allows bundling of all software (dependency) necessary to run Wordpress for development or production purposes. It includes the latest updated version of Wordpress and is pre-configured and ready-to-run.
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Simple Linux Auditing
Author: sudhagud •
Tags: linux •
Comments: 4 Simple Linux Auditing Basic Linux system auditing is a bit tricky and data collected and information of that is out of place and readability is not that good. Recently this led me to put together a Open Source code project and develop simple BASH scripts that do the job nicely. The code and tar ball can be downloaded from both google code or from SourceForge's website and the project website has links to documentation, help, installation and code.
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The Perfect Database Server: Firebird 2.5.1 And FreeBSD 9
Author: mariuz •
Tags: freebsd, other •
Comments: 0 The Perfect Database Server: Firebird 2.5.1 And FreeBSD 9 Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5.1 from FreeBSD 9 Ports and creating your first test database; also we show you how to install Flamerobin GUI (administration tool) and the PHP driver for it. This was tested on fresh FreeBSD 9 on a kvm-linux virtual machine.
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Converting A VMware Image To A Physical Machine
Author: mafe72 • Tags: virtualization, vmware • Comments: 15Converting A VMware Image To A Physical Machine This tutorial shows how to convert an existing CentOS VM to a Physical machine. This tutorial covers the cloning of the VM to an unpartitioned HDD and troubleshoot some of the possible errors that you may have booting the OS on your new hardware. To illustrate this procedure I will use VMware Workstation 7 as the handler to transfer the VM installation to a physical HDD.
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Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux)
Author: CSch •
Tags: ubuntu, desktop •
Comments: 8 Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux) This article is about how to create a DVD image of your machine with the exact same software included on the disk. This can be done using a software called Relinux. Relinux is a fork of the recently discontinued Remastersys.
