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How To Extract Values From top And Plot Them
Author: shuaibzahda • Tags: linux, monitoring • Comments: 17How To Extract Values From top And Plot Them Many researchers who are doing performance evaluation and benchmarking need to capture the values of the CPU and the RAM. Others might need to capture the throughput as well. In this short tutorial I will show how I capture the CPU and RAM values from “top” and then extract them in one line command.
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Install OpenWRT, Chillispot, FreeRadius Based Managed Hotspot(s) Including PayPal Payment Gateway
Author: chillifire • Tags: other • Comments: 2Install OpenWRT, Chillispot, FreeRadius Based Managed Hotspot(s) Including PayPal Payment Gateway If you have ever tried to implement one of the hotspot HowTos on this and other site, it might have dawned on you that this is not an easy feat to accomplish. Amazingly most solutions also leave out the most important part – how to get paid by the punters using the hotspot. Some will offer prepaid solution or access tickets that need to be printed, but this will require staff being involved on the premises. And in particular, once you want to offer a professional service and not just a ‘toy concept’ it gets tricky – and expensive. Just imagine all the servers you need to provide redundant and load balanced freeradius, mysql and web servers. It is generally not worth the effort and expense for just one hotspot – unless of course you are willing to accept outages, unhappy customers etc.
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Virus Protection With avast! Linux Home Edition On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: security, ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 13Virus Protection With avast! Linux Home Edition On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon This tutorial shows how you can install and use avast! Linux Home Edition on an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon desktop. Although there aren't many Linux viruses out there, this can be useful if you often exchange files with Windows users - it can help you to not pass on any Windows viruses (that don't do any harm to Linux systems) to Windows users. avast! Linux Home Edition is free for private and non-commercial use.
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How To Get Ubuntu System Facts With Facter
Author: gg234 • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 0How To Get Ubuntu System Facts With Facter Facter is a cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from operating systems. It supports multiple resolution mechanisms, any of which can be restricted to working only on certain operating systems or environments. Facter is especially useful for retrieving things like operating system names, IP addresses, MAC addresses, and SSH keys. It is easy to extend Facter to include your own custom facts or to include additional mechanisms for retrieving facts.
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The Perfect Desktop - PC-BSD 1.5
Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, other • Comments: 0The Perfect Desktop - PC-BSD 1.5 This document describes how to set up PC-BSD v1.5. This release is based upon FreeBSD 6.3 and uses KDE 3.5.8 as default desktop environment. Taken from the PC-BSD page: PC-BSD is a complete desktop operating system, which has been designed with the "casual" computer user in mind. It offers the stability and security that only a BSD-based operating system can bring, while as the same time providing a comfortable user experience, allowing you to get the most out of your computing time. With PC-BSD you can spend less time working to fix viruses or spyware and instead have the computer work for you.
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Installing The Open Source Ticket Request System (OTRS) On Fedora 8
Author: o.meyer • Tags: fedora • Comments: 1Installing The Open Source Ticket Request System (OTRS) On Fedora 8 This document describes how to set up the Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) on Fedora 8. Taken from the OTRS page: "OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries."
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Installing mod_geoip for Apache2 On Debian Etch
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, debian • Comments: 2Installing mod_geoip for Apache2 On Debian Etch This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with Apache2 on a Debian Etch system. mod_geoip looks up the IP address of the client end user. This allows you to redirect or block users based on their country. You can also use this technology for your OpenX (formerly known as OpenAds or phpAdsNew) ad server to allow geo targeting.
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Speed Up Your System With Preload On Fedora 8
Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, fedora • Comments: 1Speed Up Your System With Preload On Fedora 8 This document describes how to install preload on Fedora 8. Preload is an adaptive readahead daemon - it will monitor which programs you use at the most. Parts of these programs will be cached to speed up their load time.
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Installing The Amazon MP3 Downloader On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 0Installing The Amazon MP3 Downloader On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon This short guide explains how to install the Amazon MP3 Downloader on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). The Amazon MP3 Downloader is required for album purchases on Amazon.com, and makes downloading songs fast and easy.
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RackTables On Ubuntu 7.10 Server
Author: shakey_1 • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 1RackTables On Ubuntu 7.10 Server In the words of the developers, RackTables is "A management framework for rackspace, IP addresses, servers, switches, routers and much more!". To me, it is the solution to a project that I have been working on for some time - a means of mapping out our data center at work. I have, for a long time, wanted a way to map out and make available in a web interface, our server racks.
