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Here is a quick tip how to create from mysql new database and a new mysql user that has full privileges on this newly created database: mysql -uroot -p CREATE DATABASE ; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON .* TO 'my_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'my_password' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Here is a quick tip that will show several methods to change the mysql root password (that is normally empty at mysql initial install). Method 1: using the SET PASSWORD command: mysql -u root mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('newpass'); Method 2: using mysqladmin mysqladmin -u root password "newpass"

Add the winehq repository : Open up a terminal Applications->Accessories->Terminal Add the gpg apt key: wget -q -O- | sudo apt-key add - Add the Repository via wget: sudo wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list Update the apt sources and install the latest wine! sudo apt-get

This quick post should have been here since but I keep on forgetting about this quick howto. Download Videos from Youtube from Fedora box Tired of watching and browsing the same old video files from Youtube? Do you wish to collect Youtube video clips of your favorite video files from youtube?... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I’m always trying new software, and with the webserver I’ve moved from Apache 1.3 to 2.0 to 2.2, and then later I moved everything over to Lighttpd, which I’ve liked, save for some memory issues that popped up.  Now, enter a web server named nginx (engine x), written by a Russian hacker. It’s already [...]

FFMpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. FFMpeg can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash. FFmpeg can generate a lot of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Adobe AIR su Linux è finalmente una realtà, divenuta tale dopo l'annuncio di qualche tempo fa, che avevo anche commentato. Ok, la Adobe giustifica alcuni malfunzionamenti con lo stato di alpha, ma direi che molti utenti possono dirsi già contenti così. Quindi, squillino le trombe... Prova su strada! Premetto che uso Ubuntu 8.04, ...

Does a scientific calculator scares you or your visitor aways from your seat? An online metric conversion site is miles away from your linux desktop internet connection? Worry not, here's a quick tip on how to have an offline metric conversion linux tool that could help most metric and scientific... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Have you experienced a scenario where your users make use of reboot or halt command? Did somebody user just reboot your own server? Do you want to prevent your users from shutting down your linux box or even rebooting it? Here's a quick entry on how to prevent users from rebooting or shutting down... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Are you wondering how would you be able to test and probe a port that listens for UDP connections? Or how would you test a listening UDP port? How to test a listening UDP port If you have managed to create a daemonized service that opens port for UDP connections, here's how to test that listening... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Securing SSH is one major thing on server boxes regardless of server location. Here's one quick tip of adding security to your SSH connection by disabling any root logins. How to secure SSH by disabling root logins? To disable direct root logins, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and replace this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Do you know your exact zone longitude and latitude coordinates? Knowing your current zone coordinates won't hurt a bit. Here's how to retrieve latitude and longitude coordinates inside your linux box via terminal. To pinpoint your latitude and longitude of your current location from your Fedora... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Qualche info utile per il FoodCamp diramata da Antonio Martedì 29 si arriva da tarda mattinata a sera. Il primo ritrovo ufficiale sarà la sera del 29 alle 19.00. presso il Punto di Ritrovo BarCamp che fungerà da Quartier Generale della segreteria/accoglienza/organizzazione a cui tutti ci riferiremo. Presso il Punto di Ritrovo BarCamp ci sarà la Bacheca, [...]

"How to completely change your distribution on a remote box without a boot disk, with only ssh access, using only one partition, and with only one reboot at the very end of the conversion process." Goudkov.com

The usually unsightly condition known as cellulite is suffered by woman around the world and is universally hated; most areas of the body can experience its effects but sufferers mainly have it below the abdomen. Most women carry excess fat in thighs and buttocks, but this problem is not confined just to the overweight; the [...]

This video from Gamelife found via Hackszine brings back the good old days. It shows how to dismantle a Nintendo Entertainment System, replace the 72-pin connector and get the NES working like new! I still have an NES with lots of games at home somewhere, now i just need to buy a 72-pin connector.

What is Wallpapoz? Wallpapoz application enables you to configure Gnome desktop wallpapers in unique way. You could have Gnome desktop wallpaper changes when the specified time has passed. The most important feature is you could have Gnome desktop wallpaper changes when you change workspace. This... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

From my recent post, we have covered to merge data contents two text files without a common columnar field. We have also covered joining two text files into one text file separated by a delimiter character. Now, from this post, we are going to go thru merging two text files with a common columnar... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Today i had an interesting requirement for security of data transfer between organizations. The manager giving the request bolied his specs one essential request: Maximum security at minimal cost. The solution that we came up may help a few out there, so here goes:The criteria of the request are as follows: All communication will be established through cheap internet linksMaxumum possible security in transit must be achievedGuranteed security, non-repudiation and integrity of individual information must be achievedMinimal cost (licenses, equipment, training)Minimal modification to operational infrastructureA networks' designer first choice is to go with the proven concept:IPSEC VPN for the end-to-end encryptionDigital Certificates issued by a authorized PKI Infrastructure for signing and e

Yes, you read correct. This time around, we are going to paste data content of one text file into another text file and we are going to approach this issue using linux command via terminal. This one could be easily done inside X or GNOME, but let us assume we are going to do it from a linux system... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

"SMP is supported in 2.0 on the hypersparc (SS20, etc.) systems and Intel 486, Pentium or higher machines which are Intel MP1.1/1.4 compliant. Richard Jelinek adds: right now, systems have been tested up to 4 CPUs and the MP standard (and so Linux) theoretically allows up to 16 CPUs." Linux SMP HOWTO

You can list the packages that are installed on a RedHat or CentOS or Fedora or OpenSuse system, running this commands: # rpm -qa You can also redirect the list of packages to a file by using this command # rpm -qa > /root/list.txt You should remove packages you dont use for security reasons.

Liveblogging dall’assemblea degli azionisti di Telecom di SQ Fra le domande poste dagli azionisti Io definii Colaninno “il piu’ geniale ragioniere di provincia che mise nel sacco tutti quei dottori del Sancta Sanctorum. Il senno di poi ci ha detto che avremmo dovuto tenercelo caro. Poi e’ venuto un industriale che ci ha ridotti tutto al lastrico. [...]

Are you a PHP geek coder by profession or by hobby? Do you ever wish to hide your PHP source codes but still sell it to the market without even buyers having to view your PHP source codes? If your intention is to hide PHP codes of your work and still distribute it, read on. How To Install IonCube... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

We just need to add more addresses to the action line: :0 * ^Subject: This is urgent$ ! first@one.com second@two.net third@three.org If you have a large list of recipients, you might prefer to store the addresses in an external file you can edit without mucking with your Procmail filters: :0 * ^Subject: This is urgent$ ! `cat addresses.txt`

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"This is the Printing HOWTO, a collection of information on how to generate, preview, print and fax anything under GNU/Linux. Almost everything applies equally well to free software users using other Unix-like operating systems." TLDP.org

Add the following to your squid.conf, It 'MUST' be added near the top before any ACL that require authentication. acl windowsupdate dstdomain windowsupdate.microsoft.com acl windowsupdate dstdomain .update.microsoft.com acl windowsupdate dstdomain download.windowsupdate.com acl windowsupdate dstdomain redir.metaservices.microsoft.com acl windowsupdate dstdomain images.metaservices.microsoft.com

"In this short tutorial I will show how to install and use Debian's package manager apt on various rpm-based distributions like Fedora, Mandrake (or Mandriva, they changed their name...), RedHat, SUSE, and Yellow Dog Linux. apt for rpm is also known as apt4rpm, or aptrpm." HowtoForge

"This document describes how to enable the Linux IP Masquerade feature on a given Linux host. IP Masquerade is a form of Network Address Translation or NAT which NAT allows internally connected computers that do not have one or more registered Internet IP addresses to communicate to the Internet via the Linux server's Internet IP address." Paracoda.com

Adobe AIR su Linux è finalmente una realtà, divenuta tale dopo l'annuncio di qualche tempo fa, che avevo anche commentato.Ok, la Adobe giustifica alcuni malfunzionamenti con lo stato di alpha, ma direi che molti utenti possono dirsi già contenti cos...

Most likely, administrators are familiar with IPv4 and IPv6 loop back address. The need to identify and reach IPv4/IPv6 loop back IP addresses remains basic but a need to know knowledge. Here's a quick entry on how to identify IPv4/IPv6 loop back address status. Read on. IPv4 Loop back... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Quick and brief. Here's a swift blog entry on how to retrieve and get disk usage of the following items: a. directory folder b. mounted disk partition c. disk To get the disk usage of a folder and return a human readable summarized usage # du -sh /folder1 # du -sh /folder1/folder2 # du -sh... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Have you been told that Holywood uses Linux tools and software too? Do you know one? Read on. CinePaint is a painting and retouching tool primarily used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching and dust-busting. CinePaint was used on THE LAST SAMURAI, HARRY POTTER and many other films. From... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

This is a sample (example) of procmail configuaration and in this configuation we want to run some script :0 * conditions, if any | your-script-here Obviously, you are not restricted to Perl or shell scripts. Anything you can run from a Unix command prompt can be run from Procmail.

How to check sendmail version on HP-UX 11i v2: To find the sendmail version installed on HP-UX 11.23 you can run swlist to list the installed product: root@sandb:/> swlist -l product |grep sendmail PHNE_35951 1.0 sendmail(1M) 8.11.1 patchAlso on HP-UX server you can run what command on the sendmail executable file to check the sendmail version: Locate where the sendmail executable binary file installed on HP-UX root@sandb:/> which sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmailRun what command on sendmail executable : root@sandb:/> what /usr/sbin/sendmail |grep version version.c 8.11.1 (Berkeley) - 15 June 2007 (PHNE_35951)

Se siete maniaci come me ed avete un vostro piccolo serverino personale, o più semplicemente vi serve qualcosa di pratico per lavorare con i dischi del vostro desktop appena arrivate a casa e accendete il portatile, questa soluzione è adattissima e richiede soltanto 5 minuti per essere attuata, una volta per tutte. L’articolo prende come [...]

How to check HP-UX CPU is dual/single core on Integrity servers HP-UX Itanium integrity servers come with dual to quad core processors. If you have inherited these server and you haven't build them from scratch then it's get hard to find if you have dual core or quad core processor on HP Integrity servers. As of now there is no command available on HP-UX 11iv2 which can be used to check processor cores. I have several rx6600 Integrity server running HP-UX 11i and running top, machinfo and mpsched commands only return number of cpu as 4: root@rx6600:/> mpsched -s System Configuration ===================== Locality Domain Count: 1 Processor Count : 4 Domain Processors ------ ---------- 0 0 1 2 3 Running mpsched shows Processor count as 4, but this doesn'

Well, if we can convert the first letter of each lines from a text file, we can use the same approach to convert the first letter of a directory or folder name to its uppercase as well, simply add the linux mv command. If you have hundreds of directory name in one location that starts their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Who gets tired of Thunderbird and Evolution mail client software? How about, "You've Got Claws Mail!" Do you want to try a new GTK+-based lightweight but heavy duty email client for linux? Let's give Claws a shot. What is Claws? Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Real quick and easy, I just need to drop it here as I was using it most of the times handling tens of thousand keyword text files. If you need to convert the first letter of the word or first letter of a text line to its uppercase, read on. Here's how to convert the first letter of a word from... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

If you’re like me you’re already running one of the Firefox 3 betas and loving the new features and stability lacking in the earlier series. The only issue now is that it’s taking extension writers time to update their extension to be compatible with the new Betas. Some of these extensions can almost [...]

How to selectively change your desktop wallpaper automatically? How to automatically change your desktop wallpaper every N minutes? How to add wallpaper management program into your linux desktop? How to add wallpaper panel into your GNOME panel? Here's a quick post of how to have a wallpaper tray... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Password Sniffer on Linux? Yep, we all need to be informed of passwords being sniffed out! I would not entail those details and cover specific issues of identifying your network securities as that would be large enough to be covered here and case to case basis. However, those two words are being... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I have seen site visitors searching for linux tips on determining their current linux shell the system's default shells. Identifying Linux Default Shell Here are few quick tips on determining and identifying your current shell. To know which shell type your current user is logged on to or which... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Are these lines familiar to you? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # service portmap status portmap: unrecognized service # service nfs start Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused rpc.rquotad: unable to register (RQUOTAPROG,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Anyone building a server with a LAMP stack today has tons of options, mine have evolved to using Varnish -> Lighttpd -> Xcache -> PHP5 -> MySQL. Once I had Lighttpd (aka Lighty) installed and running PHP pages I looked to optimize the configuration and push it as hard as possible for more speed. [...]

From recent post of displaying the first occurrence of line that starts with a specified matching string, now instead of the first occurrence, here's a way of stripping out all matching lines that start with the given matching string. Reproducable Approach Say for example, we have a text file with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

An offline messages just arrive from a fedora newbie trying to polish more of his FTP administration skills. After quite some time of establishing his fully functional FTP server via VSFTP, he then realized that most of their staff with windows-based desktops usually Selects ALL files, Copy and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I should have posted this handy linux command long time ago, which was also mentioned from this link, but not explicitly eloborated. What is MTR? Mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool. Mtr, when issued, investigates the network... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

What needs to be understood is that no one can achieve all the needed protection for a fully safe web site. Such a site is offline, on a powered-off web server in a closed and locked room in the basement.On the other hand, several options are available to a perspective webmaster to own a web site that is reasonably safe from hackers. Software protection measures will be discussed separately.For now, let's focus on things that do not need special knowledge on the user's side.Use an off the shelf product for the web engine - preferably an open source one. These products are very fast to develop functionalities as well as to patch vulnerabilities simply because they are open to public scrutiny.Upon installation of the web engine, remove all installation scripts contained within it - they are

Matching strings can be counted using grep, cat, sed. Matching strings can be sorted and even omitted for matching repetitions using sort and uniq. They can also be highlighted during the string parsing operation via grep. More can be done using awk. But have you ever tried to display the first... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I have been busy playing around with more than 100,000 images and JPG files from my hard drive and I just realized that I was issuing a few set of commands redundantly specially on counting the number of images from categorical 'named' folders alone and from its sub 'event-folders'... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

With all the tweaking to get my Dell Vostro 1500 working with Ubuntu, it’s still been an annoyance to get sound working evertime after hibernation. It goes to sleep fine, it wakes up fine, it obeys all of the power preferences I defined within Gnome fine too, it’s just that when it comes out [...]

From recent posts, we have tried to remove the first word by statically specifying the matching string fields using awk and cut. What if we need to remove the first word but retain the 2nd word up to Nth word of a line from a text file? Here's a real quick and easy of dynamically looping awk to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

This is a quick post on how to remove the first word of a line. There are lot of ways on how to remove and strip out the first word of a line from a text file. Here's one way to achieve that. # cat testfile.txt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ my blog name is sysad linux... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here's a quick entry on how to have a highlighted and colored text from grep resulting strings and characters. Assuming we have /var/log/maillog and we wish to grep it with multiple search strings. Well this would be faily simply # cat /var/log/secure | grep 'Accept\|refuse' What if we want to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

GNOME Commander is a nice and fast file manager for the GNOME desktop. In addition to performing the basic file manager functions, this feature-riched file manager program is also a FTP-client software at the same time. GNOME Commander can also browse shared SMB-networks or SMB-drive. GNOME... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

HOWTO Change Windows XP Home to Windows XP ProWe can’t vouch for this hack, because we are too lazy to try it (and we never, ever violate copyrights or EULAs), but kind reader Martin explains the process for turning an Windows XP Home install disc to a Windows XP Pro disc after the jump.It sounds pretty simple to do (just some registry changes), but you can’t install Service Pack 2, so you might try to slipstream in the changes to your modified install disc (if that’s even possible).Alternately, buy XP Pro, or get a Mac. Code: yes indeed, you can’t change an installed Windows but only your Installation CD (or even a recovery CD in case the manufacturer had not left out important parts) Here’s the detailed breakdown you asked for. 1. Copy the root directory and t

From recent Wordpress installation on Fedora system, here's another quick installation howto of Plone - a content management system (CMS) on Fedora system What is Plone? Plone is a user friendly and powerful content management system based on Zope. Plone is easy to use, translated into over 35... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Blogging from Wordpress platform enables a blogger to incorporate and activate snapshot plugin where a blogger create on-demand URL snap shots of their websites. If you are looking for HTML site thumbnailer software available from Linux command lin, read on. Here's how to create a thumbnail... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

These are some basic tweaks to speed up Firefox that have been tried and true for some time now.  I haven’t seen these collected in one place recently, so if you have Firefox and want to improve its performance, try these steps.  If you have a broadband connection (who doesn’t?), you can speed up your [...]

Have you read the last post of having a two-pane GUI file manager from your desktop linux? Well, here's another round of a much more advanced two-pane file manager. What is Krusader Krusader is the result of a 7-year old programming and discussion colloboration of opensource developer to come up... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Implementing a two-pane with GNOME File manager is still under review as an additional nautilus file manager feature. Having a two-pane file manager offers better flexibility, convenience and usability of file management and directory operations, which is unbeatable by any customized shell... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Book called, Linux Server Hacks, which shows you many ways you can hack your Linux server so your server doesn’t die.This actually works since we just had a DoS attack about 5 minutes ago. (It seems like we are getting more and more DoS attacks these days. You can refer to the DDOS Deflate script also)Here’s HACK #47 I read about last week in my bath room from the book and I just used it to prevent DoS attackers from bringing my precious Quad-CPU dedicated server down.Enter the following commands and you will limit number of TCP connections to your server to 12 connections per second after 24 connections have been seen. (It means that no matter what, your server will not try to serve more than 12 visitors during one second of period when your server gets digged, farked, stumbled, or wh

Are you looking for alternative linux terminal console that offers quite new terminal convenient features? Here's an alternative linux tool that is available is also available from Fedora repos. Yakuake - Yet Another Linux Terminal Console Yakuake, one of the alternative KDE-based linux tool, is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

That title is very catchy. Yes, this entry aims to convert a few JPG image files and merged them into one MPG video file using a small handy linux tool. Read on. What is Kipi? Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here's an entry on how to convert multiple GIF files into PNG file format from terminal. There are many ways on converting GIF files to PNG file format. One of them is using a command-line driven gif2png GIF-PNG file image converter. Description: The gif2png program converts files from the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Screensaver desktop preferences prevents your screen from being locked using screensaver. Here's an alternative way of having a screensaver lock your screen while root. Read on. By default, under System > Preferences > Look and Feel > ScreenSaver preferences does not allow locking of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

If you are looking for another backup linux utility that supports GnuPG encryption mechanism over file and folder data backup and transfer, read on. Duplicity backs up directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

There a lot of java-enabled websites around the globe when visited, checks for specific java version from end users' browser. Most banking institutions does this. Disappointment comes along if you don't have any java package from your Fedora box. If you are using Fedora and you wish to install the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

From Fedora OS, if you were trying to issue # java -version and it is giving you the below similar output ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ java version "1.5.0" gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Es sabido que una web requiere contenido y “fresco” para atraer la atención de los visitantes así como de los buscadores. Qué mejor que tener noticias actualizadas de los temas que tratamos en nuestros blogs o webs ? Esto es exactamente lo que nos ofrece Howto.fm, una web totalmente dedicada al servicio de submision de artículos con montón de contenidos y tutoriales de temas generales.

[ Spanish version ] It’s well-known that the main requirement for a website is to have content, but this content needs to be highly original to catch the attention of both visitors and search engines. This being so, isn’t it a great idea to continuously have updated news on the subjects that are dealt with in either our blogs or websites? And this is precisely what Howto.fm offers us. It’s a

After signing up as a BOINC volunteer I received a good number of e-mails from people who ran into problems while trying to install or run the BOINC client on Linux. Sure it isn't a difficult task, but still it isn't as straight forward as using it on Windows where you run the installation program and then you're ready to goto. I haven't found much websites that can be helpful for novice Linux users, so here's my attempt to describe the installation process... the easy way of coarse. Ubuntu and Debian: Install the program using the apt-get tool. On the shell, type:   sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-managerThis will install both the client and the manager. Now type boincmgr to run the graphical user interface, and follow the instructions to attach new projects to the BOINC

After signing up as a BOINC volunteer I received a good number of e-mails from people who ran into problems while trying to install or run the BOINC client on Linux. Sure it isn't a difficult task, but still it isn't as straight forward as using it on Windows where you run the installation program and then you're ready to goto. I haven't found much websites that can be helpful for novice Linux users, so here's my attempt to describe the installation process... the easy way of coarse. Ubuntu and Debian: Install the program using the apt-get tool. On the shell, type:   sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-managerThis will install both the client and the manager. Now type boincmgr to run the graphical user interface, and follow the instructions to attach new projects to the BOINC

YouTube has finally opened up channel icons so that you can upload any picture you want - and yes folks, that includes ANIMATED GIF FILES!!! Learn how to roll your own and get it pimpin' and trickin' on your own YouTube Profile page! View Links, Notes, and Transcript for "YOUTUBE ATTENTION WHORES - HOWTO PIMP YO PROFILE WITH ANIMATED CHANNEL ICONS!"

Download latest version of Flash to view video! title="Download Flash">. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a simple howto for hitting the golf ball with a cigarette in your mouth. What does this do for your swing? Basically, it allows you to balance your swing. If you are not in balance, you will most likely lose the cigarette during your swing. Famous golfer, Ben Hogan used to do this in practice AND in competition. You can swap a golf pencil or anything similar if you don’t smoke cigarettes. But cigarettes work the best since they can be easily broken. Ben Hogan, ben hogan, cigarette, Golf News, golf training aid, Golf Video, golf ball, golf pencil, howto, junger woods, smoke cigarettes, swing, Swing Tips, txd

This is a small HOWTO: guide which will help you reset your Panasonic BL-C1 or BL-C20 IP camera should you forget the password and find yourself unable to connect. This guide will be suitable for the following cameras: Panasonic BL-C1 Panasonic BL-C20 To perform a factory reset, do the following: Step 1 Power the camera. Step 2 Using a paper-clip or suitably pointed [...]

This is a small HOWTO: guide which will help you reset your Axis 206/7 IP camera should you forget the password and find yourself unable to connect. This guide will be suitable for the following cameras: Axis 206 Axis 207 Axis 207W Axis 207MW To perform a factory reset, do the following: Step 1 Power down the camera. Leave for [...]

Step One: The CoreThis is the single most important piece of your computer. Chances are that if there's something wrong with this, the weakest link in the chain, everything will come crashing straight on top of you. I am talking about the Single Point of Failure (SPoF) on your system - the Operating System.This critical piece (actually, make that ultra-hyper-mega-critical) of software is what manages the entire show and you dont want any unnecessary software messing with it. Not all Operating Systems are created equal. Technically speaking, server OSes are some of the safest OSes around. But usually you cannot go around installing these OSes unless you're a total geek with around 10 computers around your home and you need software to centrally manage them. When it comes to a single desktop OS, currently Microsoft Windows XP rules the roost.Your choice of Windows OS preference in the order of safest first is:Windows XP ProfessionalWindows XP HomeWindows 2000 ProfessionalWindows NT 4.0

Today I wrote 857 words. Yesterday day I Wrote 678 Words. And the day before I wrote 389 Words. And the reason is Holly Lisle’s How Beat Writer’s Block (And Have FUN Writing From Now On). I had been looking at Holly Lisle’s site for a while now. I first came across it a few months ago and had been thinking of buying her Create A Plot Clinic but then got stuck with a bit of writers block. Now I find that Holly has produced a course to beat writer’s block and is bundling not just the Create A Plot Clinic but all her other “clinics” as well for half price. It was an offer I couldn’t refuse. And now not only have I started writing, but I also have reference books to help me improve what I write. Already I have gotten a few good tips that will help me improve my writing and I have only skimmed the books. Has the course “cured” my writer’s block for good? Well only time will tell. But if I do find myself blocked at some future date

Whenever a router is connected to the Internet it receives what is known as a public IP address. This is your identifier on the internet and is unique all over the world. However, internet service providers (ISPs) only have a set number of IP addresses which they can give to their customers. Because of this [...]

There is additional software which can be added to all IQeye cameras which provides an embedded recording solution without the need to install further client software on your PC. The software is called IQrecorder and we will show you how simple it is to install and configure. In this HOWTO guide we will show you [...]

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These weekend my colleague brought to our office simple 20$ webcam. I have to say that my previous attitude to such toys was quite ambiguous. But idea to build home/office video security system based on such webcam(s) and Ubuntu changed my mind especially taking into consideration extremely low cost of end system and it’s capabilities. First of all I was interested in events replay, multiple camera zones and web interface. As it was discovered later, such system provides tons of useful features. In this post I'll provide you with a free-style guide on how to set up home video security system that supports above mentioned features and is based on rather cheap webcams, free as beer software zoneminder and Ubuntu. (more…) Share This ---Related Articles at Linux Screw:BSD Packet Filter (pf) resourcesGet Wi-Fi working on Dell Inspiron 1501 with UbuntuVideo conference between Linux and Windows usersDesktop Linux distributions popularity 2007Today is Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon rel

Whatever blogging software or service you decide to use, all of them will present you with a generic graphic for the top of your blog pages. This is the single most important element that you need to change.What you will need is your own image, and a font to create a simple title, tag line or logo. If you are not good at drawing or feel design-challenged, then go straight to one of the online stock photo services and splurge. There are also lots of free sites, or you can try a service with minimal fees, like istockphoto.com. Simple Photo Borders That Make A DifferenceWhen posting graphics and photos on your blog pages try adding a simple border to them by using Photoshop's stroke command. Not only will this help your photos to pop out from the page, but it will also add another design element for people to associate from your site.

Installation Instructions RedHat Linux Save the appropriate file to your machine: RedHat 9 Log in as root and type: rpm -i with the appropriate filename depending on your version to install the application.Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X Window to launch the application. Debian Linux Save the file to your machine.Log in as root and type: dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb to install the application.Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X Window to launch the application. FreeBSD Installation Save the file to your machine.Log in as root and type: pkg_add fbsd4.ymessenger.tgz to install the application.Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X Window to launch the application. file source: http://messenger.yahoo.com/unix.php

Having a wireless IP camera is great. It allows you to place it practically anywhere in your home where there is a spare power supply. This is great for home security when you want to keep the camera as discreet as possible. But, if you are having trouble setting up your camera to work [...]

One of the many benefits of IP cameras is their ability to act independently of a PC. Being a standalone device you simply plug it into a broadband enabled router and you can access your camera’s images from anywhere in the world. It is not uncommon for people to use cameras to keep [...]

Fedora Installation (Screenshots)1. To get started, insert the first installation CD (or the DVD), and power on the machine. Assuming your system boots normally, the first screen you should see contains a couple of installation options. You can install Fedora in either graphical mode, or in text mode. Text mode is useful if your having trouble working with the your system's graphics adapter.2.Regardless of which mode you choose for installation,the next screen is a text screen that asks if you want to test your CD media before you install. If you have new disc,skip this section and click next. This test makes sure the installer will be able to read everythingit needs to properly install.3. The graphical installation begins. Choose your language and click the Next button.4.If you're using a new disk or want to format your hard disk. Answer Yes to initialize the disk. 5.Partitioning your drive, fedora provides a default layout which I have chosen for this installation. If you choose

Fedora Installation (Screenshots)1. To get started, insert the first installation CD (or the DVD), and power on the machine. Assuming your system boots normally, the first screen you should see contains a couple of installation options. You can install Fedora in either graphical mode, or in text mode. Text mode is useful if your having trouble working with the your system's graphics adapter.2.Regardless of which mode you choose for installation,the next screen is a text screen that asks if you want to test your CD media before you install. If you have new disc,skip this section and click next. This test makes sure the installer will be able to read everythingit needs to properly install.3. The graphical installation begins. Choose your language and click the Next button.4.If you're using a new disk or want to format your hard disk. Answer Yes to initialize the disk. 5.Partitioning your drive, fedora provides a default layout which I have chosen for this installation. If you choose