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• Recompiling PHP5 With Bundled Support For GD On Ubuntu

  Author: patusovniak • Tags: php, ubuntu • Comments: 17

  Recompiling PHP5 With Bundled Support For GD On Ubuntu You'll learn how to recompile PHP5 with bundled support for GD on Ubuntu to use advanced GD functions for image editing, like desaturation, and so on.

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• Using Address Table Object In Firewall Builder

  Author: vkfwb • Tags: security • Comments: 0

  Using Address Table Object In Firewall Builder This article continues the series of articles on Fireall 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 demonstrates how you can build firewall rules matching sets of ip addresses stored in external files.

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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04 (LAMP)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, mysql, php, ubuntu • Comments: 8

  Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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• Creating Snapshot-Backups with BackerUpper On Ubuntu 9.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup, desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 3

  Creating Snapshot-Backups with BackerUpper On Ubuntu 9.04 BackerUpper is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive. From the BackerUpper project page: "Backerupper is a simple program for backing up selected directories over a local network. Its main intended purpose is backing up a user's personal data." This article shows how to install and use BackerUpper on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

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• Configuring Slony-I Cascading Replication On PostgreSQL 8.3

  Author: duncanp • Tags: other • Comments: 1

  Configuring Slony-I Cascading Replication On PostgreSQL 8.3 This guide is aimed at users that would like to configure Slony-I to replicate a database from a master to a slave on different hosts.

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• Using Custom Service Object In Firewall Builder

  Author: vkfwb • Tags: security • Comments: 1

  Using Custom Service Object In Firewall Builder This article continues the series of articles on Fireall 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 demonstrates how you can work with the Custom Service object in Firewall Builder.

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• How To Get The M-Audio Transit USB Audio Device Working In Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64

  Author: dewdude • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 6

  How To Get The M-Audio Transit USB Audio Device Working In Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64 This tutorial will explain how to get the M-Audio Transit USB audio device working under Ubuntu 9.04 amd64, although it may work for other versions. The Transit is usually a Windows only device and is not detected normally because the firmware has to be loaded in to the device; this is normally done by the Windows drivers. I've written this tutorial after a long exhaustive search on how to get it working.

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• Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd

  Author: eddiechen • Tags: centos, email, ftp • Comments: 1

  Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since iRedMail 0.5, it supports Debian 5.0.1 and Ubuntu 8.04 & Ubuntu 9.04 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on CentOS 5.x, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.

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• Mantis Installation Tutorial - Fedora OS

  Author: prashanthkannan • Tags: fedora • Comments: 8

  Mantis Installation Tutorial - Fedora OS This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install and configure Mantis - Defect Tracker on your Fedora operating system. Mantis is an open source free defect tracking utility that is really easy to configure and use. Its installation is also very easy if you follow the steps that I have mentioned below.

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• How To Defend slowloris DDoS With mod_qos (Apache2 On Debian [Lenny])

  Author: MarcusSpiegel • Tags: linux, apache, security, debian, linux, apache, security • Comments: 6

  How To Defend slowloris DDoS With mod_qos (Apache2 On Debian [Lenny]) mod_qos gives some fine-grained opportunities to scale the number of used connections and to defend an attack according to bandwidth limits. Unfortunately it is only available as source-package and there are many possible settings, wich might be hard to setup for this special case. So I provide the way that helped me.

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