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The Perfect Desktop - Part 3: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 The Perfect Desktop - Part 3: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the third in a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all 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 runs also on older hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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Configuration Automation & Centralized Management With Puppet on Ubuntu
Author: Kbrede • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 7Configuration Automation & Centralized Management With Puppet on Ubuntu This is a step by step tutorial on how to install the server component of Puppet (puppetmaster) on one machine, and the Puppet client (puppetd) on another. We then perform a simple test to make sure Puppet is working properly. If you're not familiar with Puppet, it's a configuration automation tool that allows you to centralize management of the various *nix flavors running on your network. Puppet supports central management of the important aspects of your systems, such as: files, packages, users, services, cron, mounts, etc.
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How To Roll A Kernel the Ubuntu/Debian Way
Author: VirtualEntity • Tags: debian, kernel, ubuntu • Comments: 2How To Roll A Kernel the Ubuntu/Debian Way The Linux kernel is the heart of your Ubuntu Operating System. The kernel that comes with Ubuntu should contain all of the drivers you need, but just in case you would like to tweak your kernel or if for some reason you need to recompile for some special reason this guide will help you.
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How to download only the new emails in Sylpheed
Author: VirtualEntity • Tags: other • Comments: 0How to download only the new emails in Sylpheed Sylpheed keeps downloading the same messages over and over again! I want to be able to download only the new messages, but have the option of re-downloading everything. How to do?
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Using TAR with Bunzip2 files
Author: VirtualEntity • Tags: linux • Comments: 0Using TAR with Bunzip2 files Bunzipping and then unTARring in two steps is not convenient. It is not necessary to use Bunzip2 and then TAR to unzip a file in two separate steps. Tar will do the job on its own if the -j switch is used, thus: tar xjvf linux-source<version>.tar.bz2 By the same token, you may use the -z switch with a gzipped file, e.g. tar zxvf linux-source<version>.tar.gz
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Setting the SUID/SGID bits: Giving a program YOUR permissions when it runs
Author: VirtualEntity • Tags: linux, linux • Comments: 5Setting the SUID/SGID bits: Giving a program YOUR permissions when it runs Normally, when a program runs under Linux, it inherits the permissions of the user who is running it, thus if I run a program under my account, the program runs with the same permissions that I would have if that program were me. Thus, if I cannot open a certain file, the program I am running also cannot open the file in question. If I set the SUID or SGID bit for a file, this causes any persons or processes that run the file to have access to system resources as though they are the owner of the file.
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An Explanation of Pointers (C++)
Author: VirtualEntity • Tags: c-programming • Comments: 1An Explanation of Pointers (C++) Pointers are basically the same as any other variable. However, what is different about them is that instead of containing actual data, they contain a pointer to the memory location where information can be found. This is a very important concept, and many programs and ideas rely on pointers as the basis of their design, linked lists for example.
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MySQL Master Master Replication
Author: sheikhsa • Tags: mysql • Comments: 45MySQL Master Master Repliction Tutorial This tutorial describes how to set up MySQL master-master replication. We need to replicate MySQL servers to achieve high-availability (HA). In my case I need two masters that are synchronized with each other so that if one of them drops down, other could take over and no data is lost. Similarly when the first one goes up again, it will still be used as slave for the live one.
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The Perfect Desktop - Part 2: Mandriva Free 2007
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, mandriva •
Comments: 2 The Perfect Desktop - Part 2: Mandriva Free 2007 With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the second in a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Mandriva Free 2007 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all 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, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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Creating a read-only mirror of your SVN repository with SVK
Author: GSMD • Tags: debian, ubuntu • Comments: 0Creating a read-only mirror of your SVN repository with SVK Say, you've got an SVN for your OpenSource project and would like to mirror it to some remote location that hosts opensource projects (such as SourceForge.net or dev.java.net). I'll skip the phase of an account and project registration and assume you've already got your credentials and SVN repo url. I also assume you are on Debian or Ubuntu and your SVN is up and running under Apache httpd.
