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• Installing The Sugar Desktop Environment On Ubuntu 9.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 0

  Installing The Sugar Desktop Environment On Ubuntu 9.04 Sugar is the desktop environment that is used for the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) netbooks. It can also be installed on normal computers. This guide shows how you can install Sugar on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop.

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• Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Debian Lenny

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, ftp • Comments: 12

  Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Debian Lenny This document describes how to install a Proftpd 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 with this setup.

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• How To Install Asterisk For Your First PBX Solution

  Author: vikaskumar2020 • Tags: linux • Comments: 14

  How To Install Asterisk For Your First PBX Solution Asterisk is one of the best telephony solutions which is free to use. There are others such as yate that provide same type of solutions and even more custom ones. Due to the easy of implementation Asterisk has become more popular than anything else. Asterisk is very easy to use and lots of open source and closed source panels provide a GUI for it.

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• Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 1

  Author: vkfwb • Tags: security • Comments: 0

  Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 1 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article explains key principles of the policy or access control rule sets in Firewall Builder. I plan to demonstrate examples of policy rules and how they translate into iptables, pf and Cisco IOS and PIX configurations in the next article of the series.

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• Creating Backups With luckyBackup On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup, desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 5

  Creating Backups With luckyBackup On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop This tutorial explains how to install and use luckyBackup on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. luckyBackup is an application for data back-up and synchronization powered by the rsync tool. It is simple to use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all data), safe (keeps your data safe by checking all declared directories before proceeding in any data manipulation ), reliable and fully customizable.

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• Clean Up Your Desktop With Computer Janitor On Ubuntu 9.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 4

  Clean Up Your Desktop With Computer Janitor On Ubuntu 9.04 Computer Janitor is a tool that lets you clean up a system so it's more like a freshly installed one. Computer Janitor deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space. This tutorial shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop.

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• Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Debian Lenny

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, ftp • Comments: 3

  Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Debian Lenny 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.

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• Monitoring Multiple Log Files At A Time With MultiTail On Debian Lenny

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, monitoring • Comments: 0

  Monitoring Multiple Log Files At A Time With MultiTail On Debian Lenny MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor a complete directory of files. Merging of two or even more log files is possible.

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• The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 6

  The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.04 This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 9.04 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. Kubuntu 9.04 is derived from Ubuntu 9.04 and uses the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME desktop.

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• Registering Local Or Remote Commands With logsave

  Author: PedroMoura • Tags: linux • Comments: 0

  Registering Local Or Remote Commands With logsave The general idea is to use the logsave to register commands and their outputs. Initially we record local commands and then we use this technique to make a record (locally) about a remote session.

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