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  • Ultimate Security Proxy With Tor

    tux Author: Tb0hdanTags: Comments: 31

    Ultimate Security Proxy With Tor Nowadays, within the growing web 2.0 environment you may want to have some anonymity, and use other IP addresses than your own IP. Or, for some special purposes - a few IPs or more, frequently changed. So no one will be able to track you. A solution exists, and it is called Tor Project, or simply tor. There are a lot of articles and howtos giving you the idea of how it works, I'm not going to describe here onion routing and its principles, I'll rather tell you how practically pull out the maximum out of it.

  • Firewall Management With Gufw On Ubuntu 8.04

    Author: Falko TimmeTags: , Comments: 1

    Firewall Management With Gufw On Ubuntu 8.04 Gufw is a graphical frontend for managing an iptables firewall on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. It is based on ufw and enables you to allow or block pre-configured, common p2p, or individual ports. This guide shows how you can install and use Gufw on Ubuntu 8.04.

  • Installing The Adobe Flash Plugin 10 On A 64bit Ubuntu 8.04

    ubuntu Author: Falko TimmeTags: , Comments: 16

    Installing The Adobe Flash Plugin 10 On A 64bit Ubuntu 8.04 This tutorial shows how you can install the Adobe Flash plugin 10 on a 64bit Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Although Adobe does not provide a Flash 10 plugin for x86_64 Linux, this is possible with a little script provided by queleimporta.com.

  • Installing The Adobe Flash Plugin 10 On Ubuntu 8.04 (i386)

    ubuntu Author: Falko TimmeTags: , Comments: 17

    Installing The Adobe Flash Plugin 10 On Ubuntu 8.04 (i386) This tutorial shows how you can install the Adobe Flash plugin 10 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Although this sounds quite trivial, there are a few problems along the way, especially if Flash 9 is already installed.

  • Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2009.0 i386)

    mandriva Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 1

    Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2009.0 i386) This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota (quota is not built into Postfix by default, I'll show how to patch your Postfix appropriately). Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database (most documents I found were dealing with plain text passwords which is a security risk). In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.

  • Logical Volume Manager: How can I extend a Volume Group?

    tux Author: sinanceylanTags: Comments: 10

    Logical Volume Manager: How can I extend a Volume Group? It is a good choice to use LVM on Linux. It provides flexible storage management than any other traditional physical partitoning. With LVM, you can easily create, delete, resize storage volumes. First of all, if you want to know what LVM is, there are many documents on the Internet. In this example we will learn how to extend a Volume Group size.

  • Installing Xbox Media Center (XBMC) On Fedora 9 (i386)

    fedora Author: Falko TimmeTags: , Comments: 11

    Installing Xbox Media Center (XBMC) On Fedora 9 (i386) The Xbox Media Center (XBMC) is a media center application for Linux, Mac, and Windows that allows you to manage/watch/listen to/view your videos, music, and pictures. It has a nice interface, can be controlled from the desktop or a remote control or via its built-in web interface, and it can be extended by custom scripts. This guide shows how you can install XBMC on a Fedora 9 desktop (i386).

  • How To Install OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 On Ubuntu 8.04

    ubuntu Author: Falko TimmeTags: , Comments: 59

    How To Install OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 This guide shows how you can install the new OpenOffice 3.0.0 office suite on your Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Your current OpenOffice installation will not be removed unless you uninstall it with Synaptic or on the command line, so you can run both versions in parallel if you like.

  • Secure SSH Using WiKID Two-Factor Authentication And TACACS+

    Author: nowenTags: , Comments: 0

    Secure SSH Using WiKID Two-Factor Authentication And TACACS+ These instructions are designed to help you configure and test using the WiKID TACACS+ protocol module via Linux PAM on Red Hat. This document has been updated to cover pam .99 and higher. We assume that you have already installed the open-source WiKID Strong Authentication Server Community Edition.

  • Installing ehcp (Easy Hosting Control Panel) On Any Debian Or Apt-Get Based Distro, Including Ubuntu

    Author: bvidinliTags: , , , , , , , , , , , Comments: 6

    Installing ehcp (Easy Hosting Control Panel) On Any Debian Or Apt-Get Based Distro, Including Ubuntu In this tutorial I will show you howto install ehcp on any debian based distro, or any distro that has apt-get support. ehcp stands for Easy Hosting Control Panel. It may be used by anyone wanting to host multiple domains in his dedicated/vps server. It is a hosting control panel under development.