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Installing The Adobe Flash Plugin 10 On A 64bit Ubuntu 8.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
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.
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Installing The Adobe Flash Plugin 10 On Ubuntu 8.04 (i386)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
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.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2009.0 i386)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, mandriva, postfix •
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.
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Logical Volume Manager: How can I extend a Volume Group?
Author: sinanceylan •
Tags: linux •
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.
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Installing Xbox Media Center (XBMC) On Fedora 9 (i386)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
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).
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How To Install OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 On Ubuntu 8.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
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.
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Secure SSH Using WiKID Two-Factor Authentication And TACACS+
Author: nowen • Tags: linux, security • Comments: 0Secure 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.
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Installing ehcp (Easy Hosting Control Panel) On Any Debian Or Apt-Get Based Distro, Including Ubuntu
Author: bvidinli • Tags: apache, control panels, debian, dns, ftp, ispconfig, linux, mysql, other, php, postfix, ubuntu • Comments: 6Installing 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.
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Benchmark: Apache2 vs. Lighttpd (Images)
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, lighttpd • Comments: 11Benchmark: Apache2 vs. Lighttpd (Images) This benchmark shows how Apache2 (version 2.2.3) and lighttpd (version 1.4.13) perform compared to each other when delivering an image file (jpg, about 25KB in size). This benchmark was created with the help of ab (Apache benchmark) on a VMware vm (Debian Etch); if you try this yourself, your numbers might differ (depending on your hardware), but the tendency should be the same.
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The Perfect Desktop - Mandriva One 2009.0 With GNOME
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, mandriva •
Comments: 2 The Perfect Desktop - Mandriva One 2009.0 With GNOME This tutorial shows how you can set up a Mandriva One 2009.0 desktop (with the GNOME desktop environment) 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.
