Bind is a well known Unix name server, it is a powerfull piece of software which is used by the majority of nameservers.

This article will go though setting up a local area network that can be used at home or inside a small company.

In this article, we suppose that we are going to set a DNS zone for the domain: debuntu.foo, this is a fictionnal zone which is going to be used as a local network domain such as an intranet.

While running a HTTP server such as Apache, there is a few step an administrator have to take in order not to get easily hacked. The very basic one is to hide from the outside which software version and operting system version are running.

Subtitleeditor 0.9.1has been released. This subtitle editor I already told about in previous articles continue its evolution.
Among the new features, we can point out the addition of new subtitle format and the correction of some bugs.
Yeah, a new shot of subtitleeditor has been released. This software keeps on evolving.
As usual, I carry the deb [...]

High loaded website can get slow to respond when a lot of different visitors visit sites querying the same mysql database server, making it slow to respond.
There is many ways you can improve mysql server response time: by modifying the cache size, stopping dns resolution ….
Let’s see how to do that.

I remember, once at work, [...]

nload is a ncurse based network traffic analyser. Being a ncurse based tools, you do not need to start X in order to use that software which is necessary when administering machines remotely … and even locally actually.


nload allow a system administrator to easily monitor the traffic going on its network. It provide both a [...]

Screen is a must known GNU console tool, this small piece of software comes really handy when you are working on a console or sending long processes on a remote host.
When you start screen, you simply get a terminal prompt, but then, many features are given to you. Most users don’t even know about it, [...]

I lately updated my dapper box to edgy eft. As edgy eft is unstable and had just been started up, it happens to get surprise.
Today, update-manager stopped to work. When I was clicking on the icon, the update-manager never showed up… due to sudo. Here is how I sorted my way out.
Well, on ubuntu [...]

Fuse (Filesytem in Userspace) allow programmers to implement a fully functionnal filesystem in userspace. This way, user can mount a remote filesystem shared through SSH, mount an audio CD through libparanoia…
In its testing release, Debian uses fuse-2.5.3. I synched it to Ubuntu Dapper.
The last fuse deb I shared was fuse-2.4.2. Among the changes brought to [...]

In a previous article, I showed how to configure your laptop touchpad in such a way that you could use every neats features by using the synaptics package and configuring properly your xorg.conf.
Well, that is really enjoyable, but It can get really annoying when you type on your keyboard and still have your touchpad active [...]

Gaim-libnotify 0.10 has been released, it fixes some bug:
The debian package is now available from debuntu deb’s repository.
This upstream updates fixes 2 bugs:

Fix crasher with some icons
Workaround/bug fix: message weren’t updates

Get the deb package from debuntu deb’s repository.

deb packagedeb package

Every laptop comes with a usefull thing when you don’t want to carry your mouse around: a Touchpad, most of the time, touchpads do work out of the box but not all the goodies are activated by default.
On a basic setup, you can use the touchpad to move your mouse around as well as the [...]

Apache is usually suitable out of the box for most common used. The apache structure under debian based systems is actually really well made as it is really easy to activate or deactivate module.
This how-to will show how to activate or deactivate available modules under a debian system running apache2.

1. How it works:
There is 2 [...]

I’ve recompiled gaim-2.0.0beta3 in order to support rendezvous (aka bonjour) and meanwhile (aka sametime) protocols.
Gaim-meanwhile used to be an extension to gaim and is now part of gaim’s core. Bonjour/RendezVous was developped during he summer of code and is now part of gaim since version 2.0.0.
Well, since debuntu now has its own debs repository, [...]

saidar is a curses-based tool using libstatgrab library in order to gather information about your system state.
Among the displayed information, you will find networking interfaces state, mount points disk usage, disk read/write access, memory and swap usage as well as cpu and processes information.
saidar has been developped by the i-scream group, which also developped the [...]

This tutorial will bring you through dpkg, the debian package manager. As I introduce apt, I will now introduce dpkg and show how to search which files are installed by a package, which packages are installed on your system ….

Search packages containing a file:
It happens quite often that you use binaries and want to know [...]

There is many options out there to encrypt datas on a hard drive. You could either encrypt a whole partition using kernel filesystem or simply encrypt specifics directories on your hard disk.
encfs along with fuse can accomplish this.
This how-to will show how you can easily encrypt a directory on your filesystem.
the tools we are [...]

Burning DVD’s from the command line can seem quite geeky, but it happens to be really usefull mainly when you want to back up datas or simply don’t want to bother launching CD/DVD burning interfaces such as k3b or gcombust …
As usual, before being able to use any tools, we need to have such [...]

Since the 1st of June, Ubuntu Dapper Drake has been officially released. Ubuntu Dapper Drake brings a lot of new facilities for users and system administrators.
LTS stands for Long Term Support as the Ubuntu team
This release is going to be supported for 5 years. Server Edition includes a unique mechanism to set up a certified [...]

A new release of subtitleeditor, a GTK+2 subtitle editor for linux, is out. Bug fixes from alpha versions, new features…
subtitleeditor 0.8 bring a bunch of new features to make editing subtitles much easier.
In this version, the timing system has been remade and bugs have been fixed. New features include:

Open/Save waveform (a real time saver [...]

Quite often, when using program such as smb4k, I encountered the following error:
smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts
This happens because some linux distribution does not configure smbfs properly such as a normal user can mount samba files.
This how-to will show how to simply resolve this issue.
smb4k, a QT base [...]

As a user friendly Linux Distribution, the Ubuntu developper are working on an easy access to the ubuntu support channels on freenode.
Ubuntu Live Chat Support is basically a new application that will ask you for a username as well as a password to log into irc.freenode.net. In case you do not have a freenode irc [...]

Subversion is an application used for version control, it is meant to become a replacement of CVS Concurrent Versions System. Subversion is also known as svn.
This how-to will show how to setup svn repositories accessible throught http by using apache2 and the DAV module.

This tutorial is splitted in 4 parts: install neccessary packages, [...]

Well, since I reinstalled a Debian, I decided to make an article on Exim4, as a complement to Postfix and Virtual Host.
Exim4 is the default MTA (Mail Transport Agent) shipped with Debian. It offers really ecellent macros which help a lot in configuring a wide system by automatizing task the administrator would have to [...]

Today Andreas Lloyd sent a email to the ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-users ubuntu mailing lists in order to gather information on the Ubuntu Linux Community and know a bit more about who is using, contributing…

Here is the mail, I would recommend to everybody using Ubuntu to go and fill the survey, this can be quite usefull.

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This How To will show how you can install Debian Etch and basically any Debian based distribution from a chroot environment. This way you don’t need to download the (net)install CD, neither to burn it.
This is as well a good training in order to understand how a debian system works.

1.Introduction
It’s a long time since I [...]