How to setup time synchronisation on Ubuntu 10.04LTS.
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/NTP.html
NTP is a TCP/IP protocol for synchronising time over a network. Basically a client requests the current time from a server, and uses it to set its own clock.
Standard Ubuntu comes with ntpdate, which is a ntp client that runs on boot time to synchronise the machines clock with the Ubuntu NTP server. Normally this will do fine for most of...
» Read more | Article was posted on Friday 16th of December 2011 @ 16:42u. |
Ubuntu MythTV iPhone and iPad remote
Source: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket
If you the owner of an iPhone, another type of smart-phone or even an iPad, it could come in handy to have them to act as a remote control for your MythTV installation based on Ubuntu (this works on MythBuntu too!).
I was planning to write some sort of remote control until I stumbled on the code of [url=http://www.legatissimo.info/node/355]Kyle Stoneman[/url]. He...
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzyhNuTU4k
» Read more | Article was posted on Wednesday 14th of December 2011 @ 09:21u. |
How to install an APC Back-UPS RS 800 UPS on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/apcupsd
This week I had to install an APC Back-UPS RS 800 UPS on a web server at my work.
I never done this before so I had to take the APC and Ubuntu manual to do this. Since this type of UPS could be used on your home network or even a small office network I thought it would be interesting to...
» Read more | Article was posted on Friday 7th of October 2011 @ 17:08u. |
How to install extra themes in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS desktop
Source: http://ubuntu-art.org/
It is already widely known among Ubuntu users, but for those who are starting with Ubuntu, and then especially with the LTS (Long Term Support) release, here is how you can change the look and feel of your desktop by installing new themes. There is a wide distribution of many different themes available, for instance the Bisigi themes (see further in...
» Read more | Article was posted on Sunday 18th of September 2011 @ 19:25u. |
How to quickly scale and rotate images in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
XP had it's power-toys, that made it possible for the user to quickly scale and rotate images. It's a handy tool for webmasters to reduce images before putting them online. Ubuntu has a tool which does exactly the same for you, it is called nautilus-image-converter.
Just right click one image or a whole bunch you have selected and convert them. But first,...
» Read more | Article was posted on Monday 5th of September 2011 @ 10:44u. |
How to setup Sendmail as a smarthost on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Source: http://www.sendmail.com/
Some Internet service providers (ISP) do not allow you to have a working mail server due to anti-spam policies, they block all outgoing traffic on port 25.
However, you can use the mail server of your ISP to send your mails. In this article I will describe how to set up sendmail as a smarthost.
[u][b]1. Install sendmail.[/b][/u]
First we need to install...
» Read more | Article was posted on Monday 29th of August 2011 @ 06:47u. |
How to configure the firewall on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS using UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall)
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/firewall.html
The default firewall configuration tool for Ubuntu is Ufw and stands for "Uncomplicated Firewall". It was developed to ease ip-tables firewall configuration, and provides a user friendly way to create an IPv4 or IPv6 host-based firewall.
Ubuntu already has a very good tutorial on how to use Ufw which your can find [url=https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/firewall.html]here[/url]. I only tried to make it a bit clearer...
» Read more | Article was posted on Thursday 18th of August 2011 @ 21:35u. |
How to use Crontab in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to automate tasks
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto
Sometimes you need to automate certain tasks that come with administrating a working server. All Linux variants such as Ubuntu have a built-in scheduler named Crontab that can take care of scheduling various tasks for you.
[u][b]1. How does it work?[/b][/u]
Let us take an example to see how a task is built up.
[code]* * * * * /usr/bin/php5 /var/www/script.php[/code]
In this example we...
» Read more | Article was posted on Sunday 14th of August 2011 @ 17:37u. |
Connect to a remote Microsoft Windows computer from Ubuntu
Source: http://www.rdesktop.org/
You have many different ways to do this, the most known will be VNC I guess. But how do you connect to a Windows remote desktop from Linux without installing VNC server on the Windows computer? It can be accomplished by using "rdesktop". It's a remote desktop client like the one in Windows, but then for Linux instead. You do need...
» Read more | Article was posted on Friday 12th of August 2011 @ 14:33u. |
How to setup a fileserver with Samba on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/samba-fileserver.html
Having a file server at home is very useful if you want share documents across multiple computers.
You can set-up multiple shares for music, films, documents... It could even be very useful if you login from multiple computers in your local network to centralise your home directory and those of other users too!
This article will explain how to set-up a basic...
» Read more | Article was posted on Friday 12th of August 2011 @ 17:38u. |
How to configure your own DNS server with bind9 on Ubuntu 10.04
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/dns.html
This article describes how to setup your own DNS server with bind 9 on Ubuntu 10.04. Domain Name Service (DNS) is an Internet service that maps IP addresses and fully qualified domain names (FQDN) to one another. In this way, DNS alleviates the need to remember IP addresses. Computers that run DNS are called name servers.
For various reasons It could...
» Read more | Article was posted on Saturday 3rd of September 2011 @ 17:18u. |
Display "anti-spam" email adress as image using PHP
This trick is already widely known among developers, but still I wanted to share my script with you all. The concept is simple, use PHP and GD-library to show a email address in a web-page as an image. This way spam bots aren't able to pick up the email address, they scan all web pages for obvious elements that are...
» Read more | Article was posted on Monday 25th of April 2011 @ 11:20u. |
PHP class for filtering Siemens Protool log files and port them to a webpage
A while ago I was asked at work for a possibility to pull a log file out of a PLC (Simatic Multi Panel) and be able to port it to Microsoft Excel or other programs. The purpose was to gather statistics and try to show a top 10 of the faults that caused the longest breakdown times of the day.
Since...
» Read more | Article was posted on Saturday 16th of April 2011 @ 18:39u. |
Ubuntu 10.04 M-audio audiophile 2496
I have a M-Audio audiophile 2496 sound-card in my computer which worked fine in my Microsoft days, but ever since I'm on Ubuntu I was not able to get it to work.
After lots and lots of reading and trying fixes i finally managed to get it to work!
The main problem was that this card has 10 channels and Pulseaudio (Your...
» Read more | Article was posted on Friday 12th of August 2011 @ 17:37u. |
Radio Tray webradio player for Ubuntu
Source: http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/
Sometimes we find useful tools when we aren't really searching for them and Radio Tray is definitely one of them!
It's a web radio player which uses only a small portion of your desktop since it's running in the system tray next to the clock. It ables you to switch radio stations easily and gives you a small notification when a new...
» Read more | Article was posted on Friday 8th of April 2011 @ 23:00u. |
Source: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/quick-tipplymouth-themes-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx.html
In order to personalize our TV system at home I made my own boot screen. All of our mediacenters are running on Ubuntu, so I had to use Plymouth to make this possible. I had no experience whatsoever on how Plymouth is working so I used the mighty Ubuntu Forums and The Ubuntu Geek website to get the information.
I found out...
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sdFya5g7FM
» Read more | Article was posted on Monday 28th of March 2011 @ 19:45u. |
Installed a Quad 33 vintage stereo
Source: http://www.hi-fi-insight.com/quad-33-pre-amplifier.html
This week I've installed the Quad 33 Pre-amplifier and FM3 tuner together with the Quad 405 power amplifier in our bedroom. I inherited the pieces from my father some years ago and since these pieces form a real vintage, solid top class stereo system which sounds very natural, I decided to re-use them again in our bedroom on our second mediacenter....
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWkx0xFh9l0
» Read more | Article was posted on Saturday 26th of March 2011 @ 20:02u. |
TV system is working smoothly!
About a year ago I decided to build my own mediacenter to reduce the pile of audio and video equipment next to our TV.
Like most people we had a DVD player, tuner, amp, CD player, video player, satellite tuner, ... My goal was to be able to combine all of them in one appliance (except the amp) and run Ubuntu...
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAw9CAlqqus
» Read more | Article was posted on Thursday 24th of March 2011 @ 23:02u. |
