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Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 11.10 Server
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: kvm, ubuntu, virtualization •
Comments: 2 Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 11.10 Server Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tools that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: "But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why do I need virt-install?" The difference between virt-install and vmbuilder is that vmbuilder is for creating Ubuntu-based guests, whereas virt-install lets you install all kinds of operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) and distributions in a guest, just like virt-manager. This article shows how you can use it on an Ubuntu 11.10 KVM server.
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Stronghenge Application Firewall
Author: stronghenge • Tags: security, suse • Comments: 0Stronghenge Application Firewall Stronghenge is an Out-of-Band Application Firewall that can inspect both HTTP and HTTPS traffic for attacks against your web applications. Since Stronghenge's detection engine is based off of the most widely deployed IDS/IPS technology worldwide, Snort, it's easy to start using. Additionally, since it's an Out- of-Band solution it requires little to no modification to your existing network. With Snort's powerful regular expression support, you can implement a positive or negative security model. With it's standalone decryption engine for RSA algorithms and custom Snort additions, it can be deployed as a single or multiple appliance configuration where one device can do decryption where the other can do detection and blocking. However, this tutorial will just cover how to deploy as a single appliance configuration.
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The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3]
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, suse, control panels, ispconfig, web server •
Comments: 8 The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3] This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 12.1 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, BIND DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, Mailman, etc. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses Apache, not nginx.
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How To Upgrade OpenSUSE 11.4 To 12.1 (Desktop & Server)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, suse •
Comments: 8 How To Upgrade OpenSUSE 11.4 To 12.1 (Desktop & Server) This guide shows how you can upgrade your OpenSUSE 11.4 desktop and server installations to OpenSUSE 12.1.
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Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 11.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: kvm, ubuntu, virtualization •
Comments: 1 Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 11.10 This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 11.10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.
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Enabling Compiz On A Fedora 16 GNOME Classic Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 1 Enabling Compiz On A Fedora 16 GNOME Classic Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Fedora 16 GNOME classic desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver. nouveau is an accelerated Open Source driver for NVIDIA cards that comes with experimental 3D support on Fedora 16 - on my test system 3D support was working without any problems.
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Configuring Compiz On Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 Enabling Compiz Fusion On Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu Linux 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Unity desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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Back Up Files With Déjà Dup (Linux Mint 11)
Author: CSch •
Tags: backup, desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Back Up Files With Déjà Dup (Linux Mint 11) This article is about how to back up your files with the file based back-up program duplicity's Graphical User Interface déjà dup. I have tried the tutorial on the Linux Mint 11 distribution, but it should work fine with all other Ubuntu based distributions.
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How To Password-Protect Directories With mod_auth_mysql On Apache2 (Debian Squeeze)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, debian, security, web server •
Comments: 1 How To Password-Protect Directories With mod_auth_mysql On Apache2 (Debian Squeeze) This guide explains how to password-protect web directories (with users from a MySQL database) with mod_auth_mysql on Apache2 on a Debian Squeeze server. It is an alternative to the plain-text password files provided by mod_auth and allows you to use normal SQL syntax to create/modify delete users. You can also configure mod_auth_mysql to authenticate against an existing MySQL user table.
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Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On OpenSUSE 11.4
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: nginx, suse, web server •
Comments: 0 Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On OpenSUSE 11.4 This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on OpenSUSE 11.4. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second solution uses a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.
