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Sat, 03 May 2008 16:46:27 +0200 In the 2 previous articles, I explained how to set up a serial console on Ubuntu and Debian. This tutorial will now show how to connect to those serial console using another machine using a software called minicom. Sat, 03 May 2008 16:26:15 +0200 This tutorial will go over the steps to go through in order to set up a serial console on Debian Linux. Debian uses sysvinit to handle the booting process, amongst the different task, and as such, there is a few differences between most of the tutorial that you might find on the internet regarding how to set up a serial console. A Serial Console becomes handy when running a headless server (i.e no keyboard and screen) or if you cannot connect a a server because of a network issue. Sat, 03 May 2008 15:10:15 +0200 This tutorial will go over the steps to go through in order to set up a serial console on Ubuntu Linux. Unlike most other distros, Ubuntu uses upstart instead of sysvinit and as such, there is a few differences between most of the tutorial that you might find on the internet regarding how to set up a serial console. A Serial Console becomes handy when running a headless server (i.e no keyboard and screen) or if you cannot connect a a server because of a network issue. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:01:34 +0200 This tutorial will show how you can export and import a set of GPG keys from one computer to another. Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:15:50 +0200 SSH is great. There is so many thing you can do with it other than just a remote secure shell like X forwarding, port forwarding, authenticate using a private/public key, compress the transmitted stream.... If you have different account that you use on an every day basis, it becomes quickly cumbersome to type those lengthly command lines. One could work around this by using aliases, the right way would be to use ~/.ssh/config This tutorial will show some customization examples that should cover most ssh use cases. Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:53:39 +0100 Lately, I change my main user's username and homedir location. As a result, some application like evolution were kindda broken. This tutorial will explain how to change some of evolution settings manually in order to fix any issues left from the name change. Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:04:13 +0100 Chainloading an operating system allows grub to boot an opearating system's boot loader. This is commonly used to boot Windows for instance. I personnaly use it to be able to have my "production" system's grub on the MBR, and address other distros'grub install on their root partition. The advantage is that kernel updates are real easy to handle. Each testing distro modifying their own grub won't interfere with my main OS bootloader. This tutorial will explain how to configure grub's menu.lst from the main OS to boot other OSes bootloader through an example. Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:46:30 +0100 Terminator gives the possibility of having multiples terminal within the same window. As such, it makes it easier to handle multiple terminal sessions as for instance, working in one console and monitoring another one without constantly switching from a window to another. Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:56:21 +0100 After a number of years in development Linux Test Drive is becoming a reality, from the page: LTD is a project that has been in development for the last three years. LTD allows the user to determine which distribution best fits their needs utilizing the Linux Distribution Chooser, and then once that is determined, give the user the ability to "test drive" that distribution directly over the Internet, without the need to download. We are currently taking pre-beta registrations for the LTD system. Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:48:02 +0100 cron-apt is a tool run by a cron job at regular interval that will check for package updates and optionally do some actions. cron-apt will by default download the packages without installing them. This tutorial will explain how to set up cron-apt in order to have it send an email to a specified address when updates are ready to be installed. Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:31:10 +0100 Lately, I have been trying vmware-server 2.0 beta build 63231. It worked pretty well, but for the fact that the Remote Console to the VM was not working through the MUI. This article will describe the step to take in order to get it working. Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:58:00 +0100 Live CD are great, they let you try out a distribution without installing it. They allow you to run your favorite distribution on any computer and on the top of this, they become handy to recover a system. Ubuntu live CD is already packed up with some pretty nifty software that allow you to do pretty much everything with the Live CD, but still, they might be some software you don't need that are include with it or, some software you need might be missing. Another Pro for this is that by customizing your image, you will be able to install This tutorial will show the steps to follow in order to customize an Ubuntu Live CD to your need by removing some component and adding some others. Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:27:49 +0100 At the moment, the vmware-tools provided with workstation 6.0.2 do not compile under Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10. This tutorial will show the few changes required in order to be able to compile this module, and therefore ease file sharing between the host and the guest. Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:58:51 +0100 A standard Linux system has an incredible amount of files installed. Looking for a file location can be a painful task to do though a file browser. Fortunately, there is a nifty command line available by default on any Linux distribution: find. find can virtually find anything on your computer and comes with a lot of options. This tutorial will introduce a basic use of it and show how you can search your filesystem for file names matching a name pattern. Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:00:53 +0200 apt-file is a command line tool for searching packages in Debian/Ubuntu repositories. This tutorial will show how to install apt-file, update and search or list packages and files. Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:47:46 +0200 Filesystems are usually created on a partition. When all your hard drive is already partitioned, creating a new partition can become a pain and creating a new filesystem within another filesystem file can save you a lot of hassles. This tutorial will show the few steps required to have a new filesystem layout set within another filesystem. Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:51:11 +0200 pidgin 2.2.0 has made its way out, this release incorporate improvements from Google Summer of Code 2007 and bug fixes. Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:33:03 +0200 The pidgin team has just released pidgin 2.1.1. Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:18:56 +0200 This tutorial will explain how to create a self-signed certificate that you will be able to use with apache in order to provide ssl support. A self signed certificate won't provide as much security guarantees than a CA-signed certificate, but at least you will be able to use encrypted connection to your server. Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:29:53 +0200 This tutorial will show how-to connect to a Cisco VPN Concentrator using vpnc. vpnc is a VPN client compatible with cisco3000 VPN Concentrator which runs in userspace and uses the tun kernel module. attached file: type: text/x-csrc size: 3.45 KB here Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:49:27 +0200 Pidgin 2.1.0 was released on the 29th of July 2007. Thanks to steven for contacting me and asking me when it would be in the repository. Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:31:07 +0200 LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is a great piece of software which allow you to deal with Logical Volumes. Using LVM along with ext3 filesystem, you are allowed to extend the size of your logical drives which is pretty handy when running out of space. Distributions like Fedora, Suse and Debian have a LVM aware installer. Unfortunately, at the time this article was written, Ubuntu does not offer such settings with the Desktop Install CD. This article will cover how to create LVM partitions and how-to generate your partitions from this LVM volume. Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:33:21 +0200 Sorry for this late release, but finally, here is the port of pidgin-2.0.2 from Ubuntu Gutsy repository. This package is only available for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (i386) 7.04. Get more info on how to use the repository from debuntu's repository. Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:14:59 +0200 Linux services can be started, stopped and reloaded with the use of scripts stocked in /etc/init.d/. However, during start up or when changing runlevel, those scripts are searched in /etc/rcX.d/ where X is the runlevel number. This tutorial will explain how one can activate, deactivate or modify a service start up. Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:44:24 +0200 there is many ways of installing Linux. Nowadays, the most common one is probably by using a CD. Download the CD, stick it in your CDRom drive and let's roll!!! If you intent to deploy Ubuntu over several computers, this can easily become cumbersome. This tutorial will explain how to install Ubuntu/Debian through the network using preseed files so you can turn on your computer, walk away and come back later with your fresh install up and running. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:37:08 +0200 If you have ever worked on multiple workstations you know the headache associated with keeping your bookmarks, cookies and passwords synchronized across all of your workstations. Fortunately, Google has a Browser Sync Extension for Firefox to maintain synchronization across all of your machines automatically. Here are the instructions on how to setup and use the Google Browser Sync for UBUNTU. Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:49:07 +0200 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol for managing networks. Each managed entity in the network will run an snmp server (snmpd) which is going to collect datas from the server such as networking, load, cpu ... Cacti on the other hand is a frontend to the RRDTool with SNMP support. It collects and keep data in a MySQL database and display them through a PHP web frontend. This tutorial will show how to configure the network manager to use Cacti and how to set up snmp on the managed host. Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:14:24 +0200 If there is one plugin that I was missing from gaim since I use pidgin, this was gaim-libnotify. Gaim libnotify pops-up small notification messages when you receive a message or when somebody logs in or out. Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:51:33 +0200 Pidgin, the new name of Gaim as released its version 2.0.0. Pidgin 2.0.0 is already available for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I have backported it to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:03:23 +0200 Today, subtitleeditor 0.20.0alpha1 was released. |
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