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• Installing Flash Player 9 On 64Bit Linux (x86_64)

  Author: shahjapan • Tags: centos, debian, desktop, fedora, mandriva, ubuntu • Comments: 13

  Installing Flash Player 9 On 64Bit Linux (x86_64) Someone said, Flash Player 9 doesn't run on 64 bit Linux, but sure it does... and you can install it, just follow the simple steps below.

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• Spam Blocking And Web Filtering With The Untangle 5.3 Network Gateway

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, security • Comments: 1

  Spam Blocking And Web Filtering With The Untangle 5.3 Network Gateway Untangle bundles common open-source applications for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on the network in one single Linux distribution. It can be integrated into existing networks either as a router or as a transparent bridge (directly behind the router, but before the switch that connects the client PCs with the router). The best thing about Untangle is that you don't have to reconfigure the client PCs - Untangle works out of the box.

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• Tuning MySQL Performance with MySQLTuner

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: mysql • Comments: 13

  Tuning MySQL Performance with MySQLTuner MySQLTuner is a Perl script that analyzes your MySQL performance and, based on the statistics it gathers, gives recommendations which variables you should adjust in order to increase performance. That way, you can tune your my.cnf file to tease out the last bit of performance from your MySQL server and make it work more efficiently.

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• Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 And Lighttpd (Debian Etch)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, lighttpd, php • Comments: 0

  Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 And Lighttpd (Debian Etch) This guide explains how to integrate eAccelerator into PHP5 and lighttpd on a Debian Etch system. From the eAccelerator project page: "eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times."

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• Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.0

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, lighttpd, php • Comments: 6

  Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.0 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a CentOS 5.0 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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• Triggering Commands On File/Directory Changes With Incron on Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, programming, server • Comments: 10

  Triggering Commands On File/Directory Changes With Incron This guide shows how you can install and use incron on a Debian Etch system. Incron is similar to cron, but instead of running commands based on time, it can trigger commands when file or directory events occur (e.g. a file modification, changes of permissions, etc.).

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• Preventing Brute Force Attacks With Fail2ban On Mandriva 2008.1

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: mandriva, security • Comments: 0

  Preventing Brute Force Attacks With Fail2ban On Mandriva 2008.1 In this article I will show how to install and configure fail2ban on a Mandriva 2008.1 system. Fail2ban is a tool that observes login attempts to various services, e.g. SSH, FTP, SMTP, Apache, etc., and if it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address or host, fail2ban stops further login attempts from that IP address/host by blocking it with an iptables firewall rule.

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• Displaying RSS And Atom Feeds On Your Web Site With SimplePie

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: php • Comments: 0

  Displaying RSS And Atom Feeds On Your Web Site With SimplePie SimplePie is a PHP library that can fetch, cache, parse, and normalize RSS and Atom feeds. It allows you to display the newest articles from websites with RSS or Atom feeds on your own site. This is a great way to add new, fresh, and relevant information to your site. This guide shows how you can set it up for your own web site.

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• uvhd - File Investigation Utility

  Author: Owen_Townsend • Tags: fedora, linux • Comments: 0

  uvhd - File Investigation Utility 'uvhd' is a binary file investigation utility. It displays the contents of any file in vertical hexadecimal format, and prompts for commands to browse, search, select, update, scan/replace, print, translate, etc. uvhd is an interactive utility with a command line interface and 18 help screens.

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• XWiki On Debian 4 (Etch) - Tomcat - PostgreSQL (or MySQL)

  Author: Thunderbirdsei • Tags: debian • Comments: 7

  XWiki On Debian 4 (Etch) - Tomcat - PostgreSQL (or MySQL) XWiki is a professional wiki with enterprise features such as blog, strong rights management, LDAP authentication, PDF export, full skining and more. It also includes an advanced form and scripting engine making it a development environment for data-based applications. It has powerful extensibility features such as scripting in pages, plugins and a highly modular architecture.

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